Scope

Numerical modeling and simulation are vastly used for engineering applications, and as complement to theoretical and experimental developments boosting progress in scientific knowledge. Due to their versatility, numerical methods are successively and increasingly replacing physical tests in industrial design processes. They are also an important item in the toolbox of scientific researchers, both in fundamental and applied disciplines. There are two competing trends in the development of numerical methods. While the models become more elaborate, e.g. by considering more detailed and/or coupled physical phenomena on one or several time- and length-scales, there is a strong drive towards obtaining fast predictions with applications to, e.g., real-time decision tools. Other applications requiring fast numerical simulations while controlling accuracy are large-scale optimization problems and statistical analysis, where a large number of simulations are required to evaluate the parameter space.

Scope

Numerical Modeling and Simulation are increasingly used as a complementary tool to Experimental Modeling and Analysis and as a design or certification tool in engineering applications. However, after more than thirty years of scientific investigation around Adaptive Modeling and Simulation, the problem of properly assessing and controlling the quality of the numerical solutions still represents a relevant issue in the scientific community. Nowadays, it is well-established that a certain maturity has been reached in this context, as well as calculations for industrial applications can be verified and error bounds can be provided in many cases. Nevertheless, the design of sophisticated engineering systems requires increasingly complex and coupled modeling and verification tools are still lacking in these cases. Furthermore, new challenges characterize the actual industrial demands, such as fast calculations for real-time decision making, design optimization, inverse analysis, simulation-based control, in particular in the presence of uncertainty.

The main goal of ADMOS 2021 is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing the current state-of-the-art achievements on Adaptive Modeling and Simulation, including theoretical models, numerical methods, algorithmic strategies and challenging engineering applications.

ADMOS 2021 is jointly organized by Chalmers University of Technology, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and CIMNE and it is promoted by the European Committee in Solids and Structural Mechanics (ECSSM) of ECCOMAS. ADMOS is one of the conferences that launched the ECCOMAS series of thematic conferences. The previous editions were held successively in Göteborg in 2003, Barcelona in 2005, Göteborg in 2007, Bruxelles in 2009, Paris in 2011, Lisbon in 2013, Nantes in 2015, in Verbania, Italy in 2017 and in El Campello (Alicante) in 2019.