Scope

The objectives of PARTICLES 2025 are to present and discuss the fundamental principles, the new trends and the cutting-edge features of state-of-the-art Particle Methods for solving problems in engineering and applied sciences.

Particle Methods refer to those numerical methodologies using the concept of particles either to carry the information of the deforming continuum, such as Material Point Method (MPM), Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), Moving Particle Simulation (MPS), Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM), and Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) or to represent computationally real physical particles, like in the Discrete Element Method (DEM) and Molecular Dynamics (MD).

The conference is one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) and a Special Interest Conference of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).

Scope

PARTICLES 2023 will address both the fundamental basis and the applicability of state-of-the-art particle-based computational methods that can be effectively used for solving a variety of problems in engineering and applied sciences.
The denotation "Particle-Based Methods" basically stands for two different computational models in solid and fluid mechanics.
On the one hand, it represents discretization concepts in which the response of a continuum is projected onto “particles” carrying the mechanical deformation during deformations. Typical representatives are Meshless Methods, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) methods, Moving Particle Simulation (MPS) methods, the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM), the Material Point Method (MPM) and the Lattice-Boltzmann-Method (LBM), among others.
The denotation also expresses the computational representation of physical particles existing on different scales. Classical versions are Molecular Dynamics (MD) or the Discrete (Distinct) Element Method (DEM). Here either the particles exist a priori like in granular matters or they evolve during the loading process. In some cases the two models of discretization and physical particles are interconnected.