Fourth international conference on finite element methods in engineering and sciences (FEMTEC 2013)

FEMTEC 2013 (4th International Congress on Computational Engineering and Sciences) took place at the StratosphereHotel in Las Vegas onMay 19–24, 2013. It was the 4th event in a successful series of interdisciplinary international conferences that promote modern technologies and practices in scientific computing and visualization, and strengthen the interaction between researchers and practitioners in various areas of computational engineering and sciences. Main thematic areas for 2013 included: Interdisciplinary computational projects, Multiphysics coupled problems, Higher-order computational methods, GPU computing, Cloud computing, Computing with Python and Octave, and Open source projects. Invited keynote speakers included: Carlo de Falco (Politecnico di Milano, Italy, on behalf of the GNU Octave project) Charbel Farhat (Stanford University, USA) Rainald Lohner (George Mason University, USA) Jonathan Cohen (Nvidia, USA) Gretar Tryggvason (University of Notre Dame, USA) Aihui Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) The conference featured theoretical results as well as applications in the following fields: Computational electromagnetics, Civil engineering, Nuclear engineering, Mechanical engineering, Nonlinear dynamics, Fluid dynamics, Climate and weather modeling, Computational ecology, Wave propagation, Acoustics, Geophysics, Geomechanics and rock mechanics, Hydrology, Subsurfacemodeling, Biomechanics, Bioinformatics, Computational chemistry, Stochastic differential equations, Uncertainty quantification, and others. Important part of FEMTEC 2013 was a software afternoon featuring computational software projects of participants. Presented was a variety of computational software including the open source projects GNU Octave, finite element libraries DUNE, Hermes and Phaml, multiplatform graphical application Agros2D for the solution of engineering problems, computational geometric library PLaSM, open source library ViennaCL, NCLab (Network Computing Laboratory), and others. Organizing committee included: Pavel Solin (University of Nevada, Reno, USA), Valmor de Almeida (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA), Pavel Karban (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic), Jichun Li (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA), Sascha Schnepp (ETH Zurich, Switzerland).