Announcement and Call for Abstracts

   MINISYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL ACOUSTICS AND FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION

  To be held at the Fifth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics
Wednesday-Friday, August 4-6, 1999, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA

  Symposium Organizers:  C. Farhat, C. A. Felippa, T. L. Geers and R. Ohayon

This MiniSymposium will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of
state-of-the-art computational methods in computational acoustics and
fluid/structure interaction (FSI).  Both frequency and time-domain computational
methods are addressed.

Contributions are solicited in the following areas:

o  Interior and exterior computational acoustics
o  FEM, BEM, DAA  and infinite element methods for acoustics
o  Wave propagation in acoustic and elastic media
o  Shock, vibration, cavitation and sound radiation problems
o  Hydroelasticity, aeroelasticity and aeroservoelasticity
o  Wave, wind and flow-excited structures
o  Spatial and space-time discretization methods for FSI
o  ALE schemes, moving meshes and geometric conservation laws in FSI
o  Partitioned and staggered analysis procedures

Submission Instructions:

If you are interested in contributing to this MiniSymposium, please submit a 
one-page abstract of up to 400 words by e-mail to one of the organizers 
listed below on or before January 15, 1999.  Abstracts sent by Fax or regular 
mail will not be considered.

Abstracts may be submitted in one of three forms:  (1) plain text,   
(2) TeX source compatible with the Plain TeX format, or (3) Word 6 or 7 document 
in Rich Text Format (RTF).  Please do not include figures or graphics.
Avoid equations in title.  Greek letters are acceptable if the abstract is
submitted in TeX or Word.  For samples of forms (1) and (2) click links in 
  http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99/Abstracts.d/Information.html 

If the abstract is co-authored it must identify the e-mail of the corresponding author.  
All subsequent correspondence will take place by e-mail.

Abstracts deemed to fit the scope and objectives of the Symposium will be
communicated to the Congress organizers by January 15, 1999, and notification
of acceptance will be given by e-mail to the corresponding author.

A final version for inclusion in the printed book of Abstracts may be
submitted before May 15, 1999.  This final form is to be sent directly to the 
Congress e-mail address following the instructions posted on the Web site.  


MiniSymposium Organizer Addresses:

Professor Charbel Farhat              Professor Carlos A. Felippa      
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering        Dept. of Aerospace Engineering  
University of Colorado, CB 429        University of Colorado, CB 429   
Boulder, CO 80309-0429, USA           Boulder, CO 80309-0429, USA   
Ph: (303) 492-3992, Fax: -4990        Ph: (303) 492-6547, Fax: -4990  
charbel@alexandra.colorado.edu        carlos@titan.colorado.edu

Professor Thomas L. Geers             Professor Roger Ohayon  
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering       Chair de Mecanique, CNAM  
University of Colorado, CB 427        2 Rue Conte  
Boulder, CO 80309-0429, USA           75003 Paris, FRANCE    
Ph: (303) 492-6335, Fax: -3498        Tel: 33 1 40 27 24 47, Fax: 27 16    
geers@spot.colorado.edu               ohayon@cnam.fr  


Congress Program and Registration Information

Posted at:  http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99