Computational Modelling and Design of Novel Engineering Materials (Second Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

Discovering new materials is an important direction for the development of science worldwide. The use of advanced numerical models makes it possible to reduce the time required for developing and obtaining novel materials with predefined mechanical, thermal, optical, or electronic properties.

Computer methods not only allow the determination of material properties at nano, micro, and macro scales, but also allow for multi-scale analyses of the phenomena that occur in those materials at various time and length scales. Ab initio methods, such as DFT, MD, MC, and CA, but also FEM, BEM, and FDM, are some of the most commonly used methods in the analysis of direct problems.

Designing new materials often requires the selection of the appropriate chemical composition, thermomechanical treatment, or shape of microstructural features, as well as their topology. These tasks can be solved using inverse techniques based on both global and local optimization algorithms.

This Special Issue welcomes the submission of all papers in which aspects of the computer modelling of new materials are discussed.

Therefore, we kindly invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Prof. Dr. Tadeusz Burczyński
Prof. Dr. Wacław Kuś
Prof. Dr. Łukasz Madej
Guest Editors

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