ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOMECHANICS

Biomechanics is a continuously growing field, and has been fundamental in understanding the mechanical behaviour of living systems, gaining a wide acceptance within the biomedical engineering community. Due to the inherent complexity of biological systems, where a multiscale and multiphysics paradigm must be embraced to obtain predictive models, computational methods specifically tailored to solve biomechanical models are an open and promising avenue of research, as well as a challenging and exciting opportunity for the computational mechanics community. This mini-symposium aims at bringing together researchers in the broad field of computational biomechanics. Contributions are invited on topics including, but not limited to ∞ Constitutive modelling of biological tissue ∞ Multiscale and multiphysics modelling and simulation in biomechanics ∞ Novel numerical methods for biomechanical applications ∞ Computational modelling of cardiac electrophysiology and electro-mechanics ∞ Growth and remodelling of living matter ∞ Fluid-structure interaction in cardiovascular flows ∞ Patient-specific computational modeling and parameter characterization ∞ High-performance computing in biomechanics ∞ Experimental validation of computational biomechanical models