Current Problems and Advances in Computational and Applied Mechanics (AfriComp7)
A special issue of Mathematical and Computational Applications (ISSN 2297-8747).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biomechanics: computational cardiac mechanics with application to rheumatic heart disease; multiscale methods with applications to soft tissue, reinforced concrete and soil mechanics; multiscale methods considering continua with micro structure: cosserat, micromorphic and generalised continua and their application to heterogeneous materials; smart structures, electro- and magnetomechanical coupling: electro- and magneto-active polymers, electro- and magnetostrictive materials; meshfree methods and high-performance computing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the past decades, computational mechanics has become a field of central scientific importance spanning across all fields of science. The African Conference on Computational Mechanics (AfriComp) is a conference series with the main objective of providing a forum for researchers and students in computational mechanics on the African continent to interact with members of the computational mechanics community from around the world. In this way, the conference series is seen as a key initiative aimed at promoting computational mechanics in Africa.
This conference is the seventh in the AfriComp series and will take place again in Cape Town. It will be organized by the University of Cape Town under the auspices of the South African Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (SAAM), the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) and the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).
This Special Issue will comprise selected papers presented at the 7th African Conference on Computational Mechanics (AfriComp7, see https://africomp.info/ for detailed information). Papers considered relevant to the journal's scope and of sufficient quality after evaluation by the reviewers will be published free of charge.
The topics include, but are not limited, to the following:
- Biological systems;
- Control theory and optimization;
- Coupled and contact problems;
- Damage, fracture and failure;
- Data science and machine learning;
- Discretization methods, grid, mesh and solid generation;
- Flow problems;
- Geomechanics and reservoirs modeling;
- Graphics and visualization;
- High performance computing;
- Inverse problems, optimization and design;
- Manufacturing and process engineering;
- Material design and modeling;
- Multi-scale and multi-physics problems;
- Numerical simulation methods;
- Reduction methods;
- Structural mechanics, stability and dynamics;
- Uncertainty quantification and error estimation.
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Skatulla
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biological systems
- control theory and optimization
- coupled and contact problems
- damage, fracture and failure
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