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September 5, 2022

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December 5, 2022

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January 5, 2023 

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Symposium proposals should be submitted in English via the Conference website. You could also send the proposal (including the suggested title, a brief description, and the organizers’ information) to ICCES Secretariat (icces@techscience.com)

The chair will be in charge of corresponding, call for papers, instructing speakers, and will act as host and timekeeper during the session. The chair is also expected to assure speakers to present at the ICCES 2023, including payment of registration fees.


The structure of the symposium is not fixed. Generally, for contributed papers, each will be of a 15-minute presentation. For student papers, these will be of 10-minute presentation. Enough time for discussion should be included.

The deadline for symposium proposal submission is September 5, 2022. Proposals will be reviewed and notification for acceptance will be sent in around two weeks after the form has been submitted.

If you have any questions or need any assistance, please contact the ICCES Secretariat.

S1: Multiphysics Problem in Unconventional Reservoirs

The topic is related to multiphysics problem in unconventional reservoirs, such as hydraulic fracturing simulation, fluid flow and heat transfer in fractured reservoirs, proppant flow in hydraulic fractures, and multiphase flow of oil, gas and water in porous media.

Chairs:

Daobing Wang
Assistant Professor, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, China

Hai Sun
Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Wenchao Liu
Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

S2: Isogeometric Analysis-based Design Optimization Methods and Applications

Isogeometric analysis aims to integrate CAD (computer-aided design) and CAE (computer-aided engineering) in a unified mathematical expression framework, which can combine geometric modelling, structural analysis, and design, and provides a new choice and opportunity for structural design optimization. Potential topics for submissions include but are not limited to:
1. Isogeometric analysis-based size and shape optimization
2. Isogeometric analysis-based topology optimization
3. Isogeometric analysis-based design of composite structure
4. Isogeometric analysis-based design of metamaterials
5. IGA based CAD/CAE integration
6. Automatic model generation for isogeometric analysis
7. High-efficient isogeometric analysis/isogeometric structural optimization
8. Numerical implementations and software codes

Chairs:

Yingjun Wang
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, China

Mi Xiao
Professor, School of Mechanical Science & Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Hongliang Liu
Associate Professor, College of Aerospace Engineering, Shenyang Aerospace University, China

Zhenpei Wang
Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Zhaohui Xia
Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Science & Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

S3: Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Complex Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow

Heat transfer and fluid flow are fundamental phenomena in nature and engineering. Many aspects in production and daily life are closely related to heat transfer and fluid flow processes. Modeling and simulation of heat transfer and fluid flow are crucial for a wide range of scientific and industrial applications at various spatial and temporal scales, with increased interests in recent years.

Along with the development of computer industry and the advancement of numerical methods, significant advances have been witnessed in modeling and simulation of heat transfer and fluid flow in past decades. Solid foundation in both hardware and software has been established to study the processes because of its importance in reducing production costs, discovering new phenomena and developing new technologies, etc. However, accurate modeling and efficient, robust simulation of complex heat transfer and fluid flow still remain challenging. Multi-disciplinary research effort is a clear and general trend for the modeling and simulation of heat transfer and fluid flow, such as ‘multi’-scale, ‘multi’-modeling, advanced ‘multi’-algorithms, ‘multi’-physics, heterogeneous parallel computing with ‘multi’-hardware, ‘multi’-application, etc.

The proposed symposium aims to bring together researchers to highlight the current developments of heat transfer and fluid flow both in theory and computational methods, to exchange the latest research ideas, and to promote further collaborations in the community. We invite investigators to contribute to this symposium with original research articles/abstracts as well as comprehensive review articles addressing the recent advances and/or challenges in mathematical and numerical modeling, algorithm, and computation of complex heat transfer and fluid flow. Only the influential work will be considered in this symposium.

Potential topics of this symposium mainly include, but are not limited to
•Advanced physical models of complex heat transfer and fluid flow
•Mesh adaptation and mesh generation methods
•Advanced discretization schemes
•Fast solvers and high-performance computation
•Model reduction method
•Molecular simulation and Lattice Boltzmann method
•Finite difference method, finite volume method, and finite element method
•Multiscale and multiphysics modeling and simulation
•Turbulence, turbulent drag reduction
•Single/multiphase flow and heat transfer
•Multicomponent flow and transfer
•Micro-channel flow and heat transfer
•Nano fluid flow and heat transfer
•Viscoelastic fluid flow and heat transfer
•Inverse modeling of heat transfer and fluid flow
•Stochastic process in heat transfer and fluid flow
•Heat transfer and fluid flow in porous media
•Benchmark solution, error estimates, and uncertainty quantification
•Multi-applications of heat transfer and fluid flow processes, e.g., enhanced heat transfer in micro-channel, hot dry rock, hydrogen storage and transportation, etc.

Chairs:

Bo Yu
Professor, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, China

Shuyu Sun
Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Jinjia Wei
Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Zhiguo Qu
Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Yongtu Liang
Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Liang Gong
Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Weihua Cai
Professor, Northeast Electric Power University, China

Jianqin Zhu
Professor, Beihang University, China

Lin Chen
Research Fellow, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Secretary

Jingfa Li
Assistant Professor, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, China

S4: Computational Acoustics, Optimization and Applications

The symposium covers all aspects of computational acoustics and related optimization and engineering applications. The topics include but are not limit to: advanced physical simulation methods, machine learning based approaches, topology optimization methods, design of acoustic structures and acoustic metamaterials/ metasurfaces, sound source or field reconstruction methods.

Keywords: Computational acoustics, topology optimization, machine learning, metamaterials, metasurfaces, sound reconstruction

Chairs:

Haibo Chen
Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Changjun Zheng
Associate Professor, Hefei University of Technology, China

Wenjing Ye
Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

S5: Topology Optimization Methods and Engineering Application

Topology optimization, aiming to allocate the available material to maximize system performance while satisfying multiple constraints, has experienced tremendous progress. This issue focuses on the new progress of topology optimization methods and their engineering applications, especially theoretical development, numerical implementation and potential applications.

Chairs:

Kai Long
Associate Professor, North China Electric Power University, China

Xuan Wang
Lecturer, Hefei University of Technology, China

Jiao Jia
Lecturer, Beihang University, China

Zunyi Duan
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Quhao Li
Associate Professor, Shandong University, China

Hongliang Liu
Associate Professor, Shenyang Aerospace University, China

S6: Numerical Methods for Buckling Analysis and Design of Thin-Walled Structures

The load carrying capacity of thin-walled structures is known to be significantly influenced by stability aspects such as buckling. A reliable prediction of buckling phenomena requires a robust, efficient and accurate analysis tool and consideration of a number of inherent structural imperfections which often dominate the overall non-linear elastic response. The reliable prediction of buckling includes both critical load, instability deformation, secondary branches and imperfection sensitivities or any combination thereof and calls for sophisticated numerical methods which allow to assess the various physical responses during tracing the equilibrium path of structural buckling. Furthermore, robustness, accuracy and computational efficiency are key factors for an innovative and sustainable thin-walled structural design which exploits the full lightweight potential.

This mini-symposium aims at bringing together researchers from across the structural buckling community to discuss and exchange latest achievements in the field of novel numerical methods for buckling analysis and design of thin-walled structure research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to computational and algorithmic aspects of the analytical and semi-analytical methods, reduced-order modeling methods, finite element methods, isogeometric analysis, composite materials and optimization methods, for buckling modeling, analysis and design of thin-walled structures.

Chairs:

Yujie Guo
Associate Professor, College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Ke Liang 
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University

S7: Peridynamic Theory and Multiscale Methods for Complex Material Behavior

Simulation of complex material behavior presents huge challenges in computational science and engineering nowadays. Overcoming those challenges requires the development of novel mathematical models and computational methods. Examples of such challenges in classical solid mechanics include the characterization of the microstructure dependence of the material response, as well as the simulation of material failure and damage; similarly, the description of coupling multi-scale behaviors represents a challenge in classical theories. Peridynamics, as a new nonlocal theory, offers an alternative approach that avoids difficulties arising in classical local theories in the description of complex material behavior. Additionally, peridynamics as a nonlocal continuum model can be applied to coarse-grained molecular dynamics, potentially for bridging the atomistic scale to the continuum scale. Computational implementations of a peridynamic model, however, often cause huge computational cost and incompatibility with classical tractions-like boundary conditions. Multiscale coupling strategies that bridge local and nonlocal models seem to provide a solution to both the computational expense and the boundary treatment. Multiscale coupling methods, in general, refer to the class of mathematical and computational techniques for the problems that exhibit characteristic features at multiple scales. Several of these methods have been proposed in past years for the effective prediction of the material response in, e.g., composites and heterogeneous media. This mini-symposium invites contributions on recent developments on the peridynamic theory and multiscale coupling modeling for the simulation of complex material behavior.

Chairs:

Fei Han
Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China

Yunteng Wang
Research Fellow, Institut für Geotechnik, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Austria

Xin Lai
Associate Professor, Wuhan university of technology, China

Xin Gu
Associate Professor, Hohai University, China

Linjuan Wang
Associate Professor, Beihang University, China

Xiaoliang Deng
Associate Research Fellow, National Key Laboratory of Shock Wave and Detonation Physics, China

S8: Mathematical Problems in Oil and Gas Drilling and Completion Engineering

The topic is related to mathemaical problems in drilling and completion engineering, such as down-hole tubular mechanics, tools design, multiphase flow in wellbore, wellbore stability, cuttings transfer, drilling risk prediction and control, increasing rate of penetration, drilling optimization and so on.

Keywords: Drilling and completion, wellbore, drilling optimization, down-hole mechanics

Chairs:

Wenjun Huang
Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Qilong Xue
Associate Professor, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China

Yuqiang Xu
Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

S9: The Future of Technologies in Energy Transition: Modeling, Simulation and Machine Learning

Aims and Scopes:

Energy transition refers to the global energy sector’s shift from fossil-based systems of energy production and consumption — including oil, natural gas and coal — to renewable energy sources like wind and solar, as well as hydrogen. Thanks to the economic and environmental friendliness, renewable energy is regarded as one of the ultimate solutions to human energy problems, which is profoundly affecting the long-term reconstruction of the world's energy supply and application system, and is accelerating the rapid change and generational development of transportation, power generation, industry and housing. Traditional fossil energy has strong geographical attributes, and the uneven distribution of typical coal, oil and gas resources has brought countries all over the world competing to control energy supply, transportation channels and application markets. The global energy governance system has experienced heavy impacts from the Gulf War and other major power game events, and is fragile and balanced with the continued turbulent situation in the Middle East. With the continuous changes in the international geopolitical pattern and the competitiveness of various countries, it is urgent to enter a new stage of stability. As a typical renewable energy, hydrogen is regarded as a future weapon for maintaining energy competitiveness by traditional fossil energy exporters (Saudi Aramco has exported "blue hydrogen" to Japan and announced a $5 billion green hydrogen construction plan), and it is regarded by traditional fossil energy importing countries as an important opportunity to fundamentally solve the problem of energy shortage. The world's major economies have made major strategic decisions on carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and the international energy community has also paid more attention to the new energy industry and accelerated the process of energy transition.

The fundamental driving force of energy transition lies in people's need and yearning for a better life, which combines the dual functions of climate governance and energy innovation. Renewable energy will become a green engine for building a community with a shared future for mankind. Clearly, the research focusing on the modeling and simulation techniques helps to understand the fundamental mechanisms in the new energy systems, including phase transitions, material stiffness and fluid flow. It also has a major role in the understanding and optimization of carbon reduction efforts, including carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).  As an emerging technique accelerating our investigation in the practical complex emerging problems, machine learning has also been successfully applied in various directions in the energy transition processes. This symposium aims to bring together active scientists in the emerging field of modeling, simulation and machine learning to discuss recent advances in experimental studies, theoretical analysis and numerical modelling of various renewable energy problems and energy transition techniques. Of particular interest are research topics concerned with the interplay between policy analysis, laboratory experiments, computer science, and various engineering applications regarding energy transition, and the development and application of machine learning algorithms.

Chairs:

Huai Su
Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Tao Zhang
Postdoc, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Ran Tao
Postdoc, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Yuansi Tian
Assistant Professor, Chang’an University, China

Wei Wang
Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong, China

Yue Zhou
Assistant Professor, Cardiff University, UK

Bohui Shi
Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Xiaoben Liu
Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

S10: Emerging Computational Intelligence Techniques for Industrial Application

Computational technologies have been acknowledged as a fast-growing approach from research and development to various domains of application including healthcare, business, education, travel, and modern industry. With the growth of valuable data generated each day, the process of analysis and making use of it is highly crucial in decision-making and policy planning processes for all business sectors. Other obvious applications include forecasting, decision-support systems, scheduling, optimized solutions, root cause analysis, and data analysis. In manufacturing, in particular, predictive and preventive maintenance based on machine learning, (including deep learning, neural networks, and reinforcement learning), enables the prediction of failures before they occur, saving repair cost and time and extending asset lifecycles. To accomplish the ultimate results in all aspects, intelligent systems, smart devices, and sophisticated analyzing techniques must carefully be taken into consideration with great support from strong and advanced applied mathematics principles.
The symposium aims to provide a powerful forum for researchers, scientists, academicians, scholars, and practitioners around the world from academia and industry to present papers on recent developments in the broad fields of computational intelligence and related topics. It shall also bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange innovative and novel ideas and share field trial experiences. Moreover, the symposium will also provide a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and intelligent solutions adopted in the fields.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Emerging computational techniques for industrial artificial intelligence
Data intelligence and machine learning
Applied mathematics and optimization analysis for industrial applications
Computer and machine vision and digital twin technology

Chairs:

Sayan Kaennakham
Associate Professor, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand

Nara Samattapapong
Assistant Professor, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand

Pornthip Pongchalee
Assistant Professor, Rajamangala University of Technology Isan, Thailand

Krittidej Chanthawara
Assistant Professor, Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University, Thailand

Chantana Simtrakankun
Assistant Professor, Loei Rajabhat University, Thailand

Pirapong Inthapong
Research Fellow, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand

S11: Extreme Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures

In recent years, there are an increase in demands requiring materials and structures to be designed to withstand harsh environments, such as extreme high and low temperatures, high-speed impacts, high density of power and electric current. The harsh applications anticipate satisfactory service reliability of structures, which nevertheless are challenging to be investigated experimentally at unaffordable cost. This provides the opportunities to perform refined numerical simulations or analysis to evaluate the reliability and performance of structures with sufficiently accurate material models and numerical algorithms in the harsh environments.

We initiate this Symposium to report and discuss recent progress in various aspects of extreme mechanics by emphasizing mechanical behaviour and reliability of advanced engineering materials and structures for harsh applications in different areas and sectors. This Symposium welcomes original research and review articles on all aspects of advanced materials and structures with the knowledge and understanding of the processes and mechanisms that induce deterioration or damage/failure to predict reliability and improve structural performance. 

Topics of interest include (but not limit to):
•Constitutive models of materials in extreme loading applications
•Novel materials with outstanding thermal, mechanical or electrical properties
•Thermal management by advanced technology
•Life prediction models and failure analysis
•New experimental methods to evaluate constitutive behaviour
•Reliability tests
•Machine learning algorithms and applications
•New numerical algorithms to analyze extreme loading problems

Keywords: Extreme mechanics, service reliability, advanced materials and structures, harsh applications

Chairs:

Xu Long
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Yutai Su
Senior Research Fellow, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Baoping Zou
Professor, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, China

Ruiwen Li
Lecture, Xi'an University of Technology, China

Xiaokai Hu
Professor, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China

Yujie Li
Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, China

S12: Computational and Experimental Techniques for Structural Integrity Assessment

Maintaining sufficient level of structural integrity is the prerequisite of a structural component serving its functions during the desired operating life. Precise assessment of the structural integrity is crucial in the design of engineering structural components, which provides criteria for optimizing the structural designs, determining operating lifetimes, establishing the maintenance schemes and inspection periods, and mitigating the catastrophic failures. Recent years, the increasing demands of developing economical, durable, and reliable structural components promote the developments of computational and experimental techniques for structural integrity assessment.
This symposium aims to bring together researchers and engineers working on structural integrity to discuss and exchange latest developments in the computational and experimental techniques for structural integrity assessments.
The topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
• Structural integrity
• Structural durability
• Damage tolerance
• Fatigue, fracture and damage mechanics
• Corrosion and corrosion-fatigue problems
• Structural Health Monitoring
• Digital twins for product lifetime management

Keywords: Structural integrity, fatigue and fracture mechanics, failure of materials and structures, structural health monitoring

Chairs:

Biao Li 
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Teng Zhang
Associate professor, Air Force Engineering University, China

S13: Advanced Reservoir Simulation Technologies and Applications

Current reservoir simulation methods are developing in three main directions, one of which is the complexity of application scenarios, such as the coupled thermal-stress-flow multi-physics problem, the complex geometry of fractured and vuggy reservoirs, etc. The second is the performance optimization of FVM-based solvers, such as localized nonlinear solver, more efficient phase equilibrium algorithms, reduced-order methods, sequential implicit schemes. The third is the diversification of discretization methods for computational domain and governing equations, such as the newly developed meshless reservoir numerical modeling methods based on computational-domain point cloud discretization.
This mini-Symposium focuses on the recent development of reservoir simulation methods and their applications.

Chairs:

Xiang Rao
Associate Professor, Yangtze University, China

Pin Jia
Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, China

Hao Xiong
Postdoc, Yale University, USA

Hao Liu
Assistant Professor, Hohai University, China

Yonghui Wu
Assistant Professor, China University of mining and Technology-Xuzhou, China

S14: Advances in Experimental and Mathematical Modeling of Mass and Heat Transfer in Shale Oil Extraction Systems

Energy extraction from shale oil resources has gained a great momentum in recent years to meet world’s ever-increasing demand of affordable energy. The performance of oil well systems for extracting energy from shale oil resources has been low due to the ultra-low permeability of shale oil reservoirs. The system performance is controlled by the efficiency of mass and heat transfer in the shale oil reservoirs. 
 
Experimental and mathematical modeling of mass and heat transfer in shale oil reservoirs has played an important role in providing valuable information for understanding shale oil reservoirs and improving well system efficiency in recent years. However, accurate measurements and modeling of the coupled effect of mass and heat transfer in shale oil reservoirs still remain challenging due to limited data of reservoir heterogeneity.
 
This symposium offers an opportunity for researchers to share their most recent research and development work in experimental and mathematical modeling of mass and heat transfer in shale oil reservoirs. Topics of this symposium include, but are not limited to:
 
• State-of-the-art measurement of fluid flow in ultra-low shale samples.
• State-of-the-art measurement of heat transfer in ultra-low shale samples.
• State-of-the-art measurement of coupled mass-heat flow in shale samples.
• State-of-the-art measurement of heat transfer through well construction materials.
• Analytical modeling of heat transfer from geothermal zone to shale oil reservoirs.
• Analytical modeling of heat transfer from wellbores to shale oil reservoirs.
• Numerical modeling of multi-phase flow in heterogeneous shale oil reservoirs.
• Numerical modeling of multi-phase flow and heat transfer between wellbores.

Keywords: Shale oil, formation evaluation, well drilling, completion, reservoir engineering, mathematical modeling, numerical simulation, lab investigations, mass transfer, heat transfer

Chairs:

Boyun Guo
Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Jun Li
Professor, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Gao Li
Professor, Southwest Petroleum University, China

Hongjun Yin
Professor, Northeast Petroleum University, China

Baojiang Sun
Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Zhongxi Zhu
Professor, Yangtze University, China

Xuejun Hou
Professor, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, China

Dawei Liu
Professor, Guangdong University of Petro-chemical Engineering, China

S15: Graph Computing and Machine Learning

The symposium will be organized around the following topics: theoretical graphing and graph computing, machine vision and deep learning, and robotics. We will explore the basic theoretical research such as graphical computing and its expanded application in machine vision and robotics, and discuss the technical application of engineering measurement, product detection, and motion attitude control involved in the industrial field. In addition, technical discussions on epidemic prevention and control and ecological environment management based on graphics computing and computer vision theory will be carried out in conjunction with hot issues such as the global new covid-19 epidemic and carbon emissions.

Keywords: Theoretical graphics, geometry, machine vision, computer vision, robotics, deep learning

Chairs:

Pengfei Zheng
Associate Professor, Yiwu Industrial & Commercial College, China

Jingjing Lou
Associate Professor, Shenyang Jianzhu University, China

S16: Structural Health Monitoring: Innovation, Modern Tools and Machine Learning

Engineers have been continuously striving to improve the efficiency of conventional problems of Structural Health Monitoring, of building and bridges. In recent years, an increasing role of Machine Learning in civil engineering – related areas has been observed, leading to many exciting and innovative applications. Machine Learning methods are problem-solving strategies that are used to find approximate solutions to complex problems. These methods are mainly inspired by the strategies that nature uses to solve problems. Most frequently, they are employed to substitute or enhance complex and computationally intensive mathematical models that have proved intractable for conventional analysis based on hard-computing strategies.

In Structural Health Monitoring, the classification of the cracks, the characteristic of the cracks and the intensity of the cracks can be measured by the Innovation methods (i.e Machine Learning, CNN, Image processing) and through Modern tools (UAVs, AUVs, and slow rate camera).
 
The mini-symposium at ICCES2023 will provide an overview of the present thinking and state-of-the-art developments on the application of Machine Learning and artificial intelligence techniques in Structural Health Monitoring. The proposed collection of papers will include the latest research work from scientists and engineers working in different areas of Machine Learning, covering all of its aspects related to civil engineering.

Keywords: SHM, image processing, CNN, machine learning

Chair:

Afaq Ahmad
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, UET Taxila, Pakistan

S17: Advanced Materials: Design, Manufacturing and Multiscale Modelling

The rapid development of manufacturing techniques nowadays provides us a wide range of freedom on designing advanced materials and structures, which usually relies on efficient multiscale modelling. The symposium "Advanced Materials:Design, Manufacturing and Multiscale Modelling" aims to gather researchers and graduate students with different scientific discipline backgrounds to discuss the latest research in advanced materials and structures, e.g. soft and biomaterials, composite materials, functionally graded materials, 3D printed materials, optical and acoustic materials, and many others. The process from initial design stage, manufacturing stage, multiscale modelling as well as optimization will be covered. Authors are cordially invited to share their cutting-edge research in this symposium.

Keywords: Advanced materials, microstructural design, additive manufacturing, multiscale modelling

Chairs:

Guannan Wang
Research Professor, Zhejiang University, China

Zhelong He
Assistant Professor, Hunan University, China

Yabin Yang
Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Wenqiong Tu
Professor, Jiangsu University, China

S18: Frontier Research and Engineering Application of Renewable Energy

Climate change is one of the main threats to the sustainable development of human society, and reducing carbon emissions has become a major concern of the international community. Many countries have established the goal of achieving carbon neutrality around the middle of this century and focused on promoting energy transition and vigorously developing clean and renewable energy. Therefore, the development and utilization of renewable energy including solar power, onshore and offshore wind power, hydropower, etc is an important strategic choice for global power development. In order to further promote the frontier research and engineering application of renewable energy, we are pleased to invite prospective experts to share original research achievements and innovations on the following non-exhaustive topics.

 -  Renewable Energy, power generation, energy conversion and storage;
 -  Wind energy, solar energy, hydro energy, pumped storage, smart grids;
 -  Wind-solar-water-storage integration, sustainable energy systems and policies;
 -  Hybrid pumped storage energy solutions towards wind and PV integration;
 -  Experimental measurement, numerical simulation ;
 -  Advanced technical methodologies and engineering applications;
 -  Novel approaches to flow control, noise control, vibration control;
 -  Application of AI, IoT,  cloud computing, intelligent manufacturing, 3D printing;
 -  Digitalisation, digital twins, digital power generation unit, digital power plant.

Keywords: Renewable energy, rotating machinery, multiphysics coupling, experimental measurement, numerical simulation, industrial digitalization, intelligent manufacturing, machine learning and AI

Chairs:

Xingxing Huang
Senior Consultant, InnoFuture GmbH, Switzerland

Xavier Escaler
Professor, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

S19: Mechanics of Biomedical Materials and Devices

The aim of this Symposium is to bring together specialists in mechanics and micromechanics of materials, applied mathematics, continuum mechanics, materials science, physics, biomechanics and medical engineering to discuss the latest developments and trends in analysis of deformation, damage and fracture processes as well as mechanical properties and performance of biomedical materials and devices using experimental testing, microstructural characterisation and numerical simulations. The topics of the Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
- Experimental and computational analysis of biomedical materials and devices (orthopaedic, dental, cardiovascular, etc.);
- Bio-inspired and biomimetic materials and structures;
- Mechanical properties and performance of biomedical materials in vivo;
- Mechanics of 3d-printed biomedical components and structures;
- Mechanical characterisation of artificial tissues and scaffolds;
- Mechanics of cells;
- Fracture mechanics of biological tissues;
- Damage in hard and soft biotissues;
- Fatigue, creep and biodegradation of biomedical materials;
- Responses of biological tissues and biomedical materials to dynamic loading;
- Structural integrity of prostheses.

Keywords: Biomedical materials, biomedical devices, experiments, computational analysis, prostheses

Chairs:
Vadim Silberschmidt
Professor of Mechanics of Materials, Loughborough University, UK

Mikhail A. Tashkinov
Associate Professor, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Russia

Juan Du
Lecturer, Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, China

S20: Vibration-acoustics-based Structural Health Monitoring

This symposium addresses the topic of structural health monitoring, which is based on vibration and acoustics. Contributions that focus on all aspects of advances in vibration-acoustics-based structural health monitoring are invited, which can span a wide range of mechanical, aerospace, civil engineering, and so on. Contributions proposing theoretical innovations, experimental investigations, and practical applications are welcome. The topics include, but are not limited to:
 1. Structural health monitoring based on vibration and acoustics
 2. Structural damage detection based on vibration and acoustics
 3. Structural parameter/load identification based on vibration and acoustics
 4. Ultrasonics-based structural health monitoring and damage detection
 5. Structural prognostics/health management/safety assurance
 6. Sensing/actuating technologies for vibration and acoustics
 7. Modeling and simulation of vibration and acoustics
 8. Modal analysis and signal processing
 9. Structural model updating using vibration and acoustics
 10. Non-linear vibration and acoustics
 11. Vibro-acoustic coupling
 12. Big data and artificial intelligence technologies
 13. Vibration and acoustics under ambient excitations
 14. Engineering applications of vibration and acoustic methods

Chairs:
Maosen Cao
Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Hohai University, China

Wei Xu
Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Hohai University, China

Nizar Faisal Alkayem
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, College of Civil Engineering, Hohai University, China

S21: Blockchain based Applications for Future Internet

Blockchain technology enables credible information management capabilities, application behaviors, and web services, thus could provide the future Internet with trust worthiness. With the persistent evolution of the blockchain technology architecture, blockchain based applications (e.g. web 3.0) are playing an increasingly important role for the Internet (e.g. IoT, ICS, anonymous networks, cloud data center, etc.). The throughput of data volume, transaction processing speed, and high transaction expense lead to the restriction of blockchain based application scenarios. The security problems also obfuscate the perspective of blockchain based industrial. Such challenges call for the cooperation of researchers and engineers to explore the approaches and possibilities to a practical technology architecture layout which could adapt to the development trend of the Internet.

Keywords: Cryptography theory, consensus algorithm, rollup and cross-chain protocol, privacy protection and security, smart contract

Chairs:

Shen Su
Associate professor, Guangzhou University, China

Guangxia Xu
Professor, Guangzhou University, China

Ning Hu
Professor, Peng Cheng Laboratory, China

Hui Lu
Professor, Guangzhou University, China

S22: Advanced Application of Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation in Offshore Oil & Gas Engineering

Offshore Oil and Gas Engineering has gained continuing attention due to an increasing demand for energy and the large reserves found offshore. Unlike conventional onshore oil and gas operations which have been well developed for the past few decades, it brings unprecedented challenges due to the complexity in technology, remoteness, and harsh environment. The study of the development of offshore is crucial to tackle energy needs also to ensure safe and efficient operations.

The research pertaining to the offshore applications has been growing in the past decade covering all aspects, among which natural gas hydrate and digital solutions have been prevailing. The experimental study and numerical simulation play a paramount role to investigate the mechanisms and offer solutions.

The proposed symposium aims to invite researchers engaged in offshore oil & gas engineering to share the updated advances in computational and experimental study. The latest research findings and creative ideas will be discussed and the crossover subjects and products will be introduced for a better and wider application. By exchanging views, the industry’s current technology limits and prospects will be pointed out. The influential work will be selected for oral speaking in this symposium.

Potential topics of this symposium mainly include, but are not limited to
•Unconventional offshore production model
•Unconventional marine energy resources, e.g., natural gas hydrate, offshore wind-power, etc.
•Advances in flow assurance
•Digital solutions of intelligent technology on offshore oil & gas engineering, e.g., digital twin and smart robots , etc.
•Advances in design and manufacture for marine engineering, e.g., floating bodies, pipes, risers, electric machines, and subsea equipment like ROV and christmas tree, etc.
•Advances in matching technology, e.g., anti-corrosion, LNG & FLNG, welding, and offshore installation, etc.

Chairs:

Ning He
Professor, CNOOC Offshore Oil Engineering Co. Ltd, China

Yonghai Gao
Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Hui Wang
Phd, CNOOC Offshore Oil Engineering Co. Ltd, China

Ye Chen
Phd, CNOOC Offshore Oil Engineering Co. Ltd, China

S23: Contaminant Source Identification in Water Resources

The topic covers all methods that can be used to identify sources of contaminants in aquifers, rivers, lakes, and water distribution systems. Field-scale and watershed-scale studies can focus on a part of the environment (such as a single aquifer) or the entire environment. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, identification of contaminant source characteristics (such as spatial location of sources, release intensity, and duration of activities) using forward and backward models, inverse probability methods, simulation–optimization methods, and so on.

Chair:

Mohammad Sadegh Maleki Tirabadi
Ph.D., Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

S24: Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Pore Scale Fluid Transport and Fluid-solid Interaction in Nano-scale and Micro-scale Porous Material

Understanding the physics of fluid flow and fluid-solid interaction is necessary to elucidate the sequence of events that occurs within porous materials. Recent decades have shown a dramatic increase in interest to study and apply porous media science in various aspects of energy and environmental engineering, including groundwater remediation, geothermal energy, CO2 storage, oil & gas recovery, and fuel cells. Sustainable engineering of each one of these systems requires a pore scale understanding with which one can make predictions. The coupling between flow and deformation can give rise to a variety of complex phenomena, including changes in mechanical or transport properties, changes in size or shape which are commonly observed in subsurface porous media, gels, tissues, etc.
This symposium is dedicated to the achievements done on modeling and simulation of pore scale fluid transport and fluid-solid interaction in nano-scale and micro scale porous material with an emphasis on new numerical developments, microfluidics and nanofluidics, new physical insights, incorporation of advanced physical and chemical models, and upscaling to the continuum scale, showcasing the recent advances on pore scale fluid transport and fluid-solid interaction modelling with application to nano-scale and micro scale porous material. This symposium will cover topics of interest that include, but are not limited to, the following:
 1. Pore-scale to continuum-scale upscaling method
 2. Microfluidics and nanofluidics application in porous systems
 3. Poromechanics and fluid-solid interaction
 4. Molecular level modelling of fluid flow in porous material
 5. Pore scale phase behavior change
 6. Pore scale adsorption and transport process
 7. Deep learning assisted pore scale modelling method
 8. Phase field, level set and lattice Boltzmann approaches, as well as hybrid methods.
 9. Pore scale dynamic 3D imaging techniques
 10. Liquid imbibition/drying modelling in porous material
 11. Pore scale fracture propagation imaging and modelling
 12. Multiphase transport process

Keywords: Pore scale fluid transport, fluid-solid interaction, micro & nanomechanics of porous materials, numerical simulation, pore scale imaging and modelling, nano-scale and micro scale porous material

Chairs:

Wenhui Song
Associate Professor, School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Shuangmei Zou
Associate professor, School of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China

Jianlin Zhao
Associate professor, School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

Shiyuan Zhan
Professor, Collge of Energy, Chengdu University of Technology

S25: Computational Geomechanics and Multiphysics Coupling in Porous Media

This symposium will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of-the-art in computational geomechanics, addressing the multiphysics and multiphase coupling between the linear elastic/nonlinear plastic rock deformations and processes of fluid flow, heat transfer, ions transport, etc. Meanwhile, recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics push forward the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Contributions are solicited in, but not restricted to, the following topic areas: (1) development, implementation, and validation of advanced constitutive models, (2) computational models and algorithms for multiphysics problems (coupled multiphase flow and solid deformation, fracture flow, chemo-thermo-hydro-mechanics, etc.), (3) meshfree methods for large deformation problems, (4) data-driven constitutive modeling of geomaterials, (5) machine learning and physics-based models.

Keywords: Reservoir geomechanics, meshfree method, THMC, machine learning, physics-informed neural network

Chairs:

Qi Zhang
RGC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Xia Yan
Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Kai Zhang
Professor, Qingdao University of Technology, China

Zhao Zhang
Professor, Shandong University, China

Yinfu Jin
Professor, Shenzhen University, China

S26: Engineering Software Development in Computational Science

Engineering software plays a key role in promoting the wide application of computational science. This symposium focuses on the recent advances in Engineering Software of computational science. The software can be for the purposes of education, prototyping algorithms, analysis of complex industrial problems, real time simulation, and so on. We are interested in both standalone software and the plug-in based on a well established platform.

Chairs:

Haojie Lian
Associate Professor, Taiyuan University of Technology, China

Leilei Chen
Associate Professor, Huanghuai University, China

S27: Numerical Simulation of Advanced Manufacturing Processes

Numerical simulation plays a significant role in advance manufacturing process, which gives an effective guidance on manufacturing process and reduce the experimental cost. This symposium aims to gather researchers to discuss the development and application of numerical simulation in advance manufacturing process, e.g. the development of multiscale and multiphysics modelling, the design and optimization of manufacturing process via numerical simulation, numerical simulation of microstructural evolution during manufacturing process, high performance computational technology of numerical simulation, durability prediction of products via numerical simulation and other new development of numerical simulation technology in advance manufacturing process. Authors with the research about the numerical simulation in advance manufacturing process are welcome to share their research in this symposium.

Keywords: Numerical simulation, advanced manufacturing process, design and optimization, durability prediction, microstructural evolution

Chairs:

Wugui Jiang
Professor, School of Aeronautical Manufacturing Engineering, Nanchang Hangkong University, China

Zhixin Tu
Lecturer, Nanchang Hangkong University, China

S28: Dynamics and Control of Complex Space Systems

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of complex space systems, e.g., space telescopes, satellite antennas, solar power systems and deep space exploration transit station, which can use on-orbit assembly to construct various large space structures. In addition, small space platforms or modules can also use network topology to fully realize the complex performance of traditional large structures, and they can greatly reduce the costs and risks borne by a large complex space system, and significantly increase the flexibility and robustness of the system. Distributed space systems, e.g., constellation, cluster, swarms, fractionated satellite, and federated satellite, are typical complex space system including many flight vehicles distributed in different orbits cooperating with each other to perform a complex flight mission.
However, the main challenge of complex space systems lies in the complex dynamic coupling with the environment and inter switching topology, and multiple complex disturbances, e.g., external disturbances, model parameter uncertainties, controller’s perturbations, input delay, actuator fault signals, and other nonlinear perturbations widely act on space systems. The present generation of complex space systems should be capable of high-precision maneuvers and increased robustness to multiple complex disturbances.
The aim of this symposium is to collate original research and review articles that investigate the developments of dynamics and control of complex space systems.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
In-space assembly and construction
Topology reconstruction and optimization
Space electromagnetic docking/separation
Distributed path planning for space systems 
Spacecraft navigation, guidance, and control
Attitude dynamics, determination and control 
Flexible structure vibration isolation and suppression
Orbital game theories and applications for satellite swarms

Chairs:

Chuang Liu
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Honghua Dai
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Xiaokui Yue
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

S29: Application of Artificial Intelligence in Aerospace Guidance, Control and Trajectory Design

Aerospace has become one of the most active and influential fields of science and technology in the 21st century. Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered as one of the three cutting-edge technologies in the 21st century. AI technology can simulate, extend, and expand human intelligence, and further assist human beings to complete tasks such as perception and decision-making that are difficult for the human brain to complete. Therefore, how to use the big data storage, perceptual learning and decision-making planning capabilities of AI to improve the existing technology in the aerospace field is a key scientific issue. The level of intelligence will greatly affect the future development of the aerospace field. Problems such as guidance, control and trajectory design are obviously related with AI. The emphasis of AI in the problems or technologies is to point out the following traits in contrast to traditional methods:
(1) AI technology can improve the orbital accuracy of rocket ascent guidance and the strike accuracy of missile terminal guidance. Meanwhile, it can improve the autonomy of cooperative tasks for aircraft cluster such as: interaction, detection, and attack.
(2) AI technology can learn through real-time interaction with the environment, so as to improve the robustness of aircraft or spacecraft control systems against external disturbances and their own perturbations, which improves its adaptability.
(3) The traditional trajectory design method has a long iteration cycle and low applicability of tasks. Combining AI technology can improve the speed of design, and meet the needs of sudden changes such as avoiding threat areas and changing target points at real time.
This symposium is to invite researchers to share their efforts in combining guidance, control and trajectory design with AI technology in aerospace field.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
1. Rocket ascent guidance and trajectory design
2. Reentry guidance and trajectory design for spacecraft or missile
3. Control technology of hypersonic vehicle
4. Formation control of multi aircrafts or spacecrafts
5. Cooperative trajectory planning for aircraft or spacecraft
6. Cooperative terminal guidance with multiple constraints
7. Spacecraft orbit maneuver, rendezvous and operation

Keywords: Guidance, control, trajectory design, aerospace, intelligence

Chairs:

Yibo Ding
Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
 
Honghua Dai
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
 
Xiaokui Yue
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

S30: Computational Methods in Space Flight Mechanics

Computational mechanics has penetrated most disciplines of engineering and science. In an era of computer and automation, computational methods not only serve as simulating auxiliary, but also shape the development of many disciplines. This trend has been significant in the space flight mechanics since the Apollo program, although the computation capability by then is trivial compared to the off-the-shelf CPUs nowadays. Problems such as space trajectory design, orbital determination are obviously related with computational mechanics. However, it is seldom bluntly mentioned that the guidance and control of spacecrafts are also tied with computation, where inherently they are all trying to seek some forms of solutions in dynamical systems. The emphasis of computation in the aforementioned problems or technologies is to point out the following traits in contrast to traditional recognition:
(1) Numerical solutions and algorithms compatible with on-board computation are replacing the closed form guidance and control methods.
(2) The state-of-art algorithms, techniques, and philosophy in computational mechanics can inspire novel thoughts and insights in computational aspects of space flight mechanics.
(3) Rather than simply solving the problems numerically via brute force. The computational efficiency, reliability, accuracy, and robustness of the solution process are crucial to practical mission. 
This symposium is to invite researchers to share their efforts in formulating, modeling, and analyzing the problems in space flight mechanics via computational methods. 

Topics to be covered involve novel computational methods in the following aspects:
1.Attitude dynamics, determination and control
2.Dynamics and control of large space structures and tethers
3.Flight dynamics operations and spacecraft autonomy
4.Orbit determination and space-surveillance tracking
5.Orbital dynamics, perturbations, and stability
6.Rendezvous, relative motion, proximity missions, and formation flying
7.Spacecraft guidance, navigation and control

Keywords: Computational guidance and control, space situational awareness, autonomous spacecraft maneuver

Chairs:

Xuechuan Wang
Assiciate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Tarek Elgohary
Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida, USA

Honghua Dai
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Xiaokui Yue
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

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S7: Symposium on Advances in Virtual Testing, Simulations and Predictive Methods in Creep, Fatigue, and Environmental Cracking

S8:  Advances in Modelling, Simulation and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems

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Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) are complex dynamical systems that combine both physical (plant, process, network) and cyber (software, decision-making algorithm, computation) components, whose operational evolutions are monitored, integrated, coordinated, and controlled by computing and control units.
Cyber-physical systems exist in a wide variety of technological applications, such as intervention (e.g., collision avoidance); precision (e.g., robotic surgery and nano-level manufacturing); operation in dangerous or inaccessible environments (e.g., search and rescue, firefighting, and deep-sea exploration); coordination (e.g., air traffic control, warfighting); efficiency (e.g., zero-net energy buildings); and augmentation of human capabilities (e.g. in healthcare monitoring and delivery). Since the correct functioning of such systems is often safety-critical, their formal modeling and analysis (including reliability analysis) are of utmost importance. One of the most challenging problems in the domain of cyber-physical systems is the heterogeneity of their components (such as sensors, actuators, signal processing units), which makes modeling and automated model processing difficult. To date, no unifying theory nor systematic design methods, techniques, and tools exist for such systems. Individual (mechanical, electrical, network or software) engineering disciplines only offer partial solutions for the design of cyber-physical systems. 

This Symposium aims to collect new contributions in the area of modeling, simulation, and control as well as reliability analysis of cyber-physical systems, ranging from the introduction of a new appropriate set of concepts, techniques to their practical implementation and applications with a particular emphasis on applied aspects.

The topics of research areas covered for this Symposium are:
  • Heterogeneous design of cyber-physical systems;
  • Multi-Paradigm Modelling of cyber-physical systems;
  • Reliability analysis of cyber-physical systems;
  • Co-simulation of cyber-physical systems;
  • Embedded design for cyber-physical systems;
  • Control of cyber-physical systems;
  • Formal verification of cyber-physical systems.


Keywords
Cyber-physical systems, modeling and simulation, control, reliability analysis, formal verification, embedded design.

Organizer
Ayman Aljarbouh
Assistant Professor, University of Central Asia, ayman.aljarbouh@ucentralasia.org


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