The 18th International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems (FEF2015) was held on 16–18 March 2015 at Taipei, Taiwan. Previous FEF Conferences were held in Swansea, United Kingdom (1972,1974), Santa Margharita Ligure, Italy (1976), Banff, Canada (1980), Tokyo, Japan (1982), Austin, Texas, USA (1984), Antibes, France (1986), Huntsville, USA (1989), Barcelona, Spain (1993), Venice, Italy (1995), Arizona, USA (1998), Texas, USA (2000), Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan (2003), Swansea, United Kingdom (2005), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (2007), Tokyo, Japan (2009), Munich, Germany (2011), San Diego, California (2013). The main objective of FEF 2015 was to provide a venue for the exchange of ideas and latest research results in finite element and related methods for applications involving fluid mechanics and transport phenomena. The scope of the conference was very broad, with coverage of the theory, implementation, assessment and application in all of themajor and emerging areas of fluid dynamics and flow-related phenomena. The methods covered at the conference were not restricted to finite elements. It has been many years since many researchers using different methods have also been attending this conference series. Thus, at FEF 2015 we had many speakers using methods other than finite elements. This special issue of the Computers and Mathematics with Applications for this conference includes nine selected and peer-reviewed papers on a broad range of topics related to the scope of FEF covering virtual element methods [1,2], spectral basedDGmethods [3], DGmomentmethods for theBoltzmannequation [4], parallel sparse linear solvers [5], the equilibrium flux method [6], iterative substructuring method [7], and geometric modeling [8,9]. The editors would like to thank the referees who helped to review the papers in this special issue. The organizers of the FEF2015 would like to acknowledge the approval of international association of computational mechanics to organize FEF 2015, and the generous support from Taiwan Ministry of science and technology, and National Tsing Hua University.
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An entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin finite-element moment method for the Boltzmann equation
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A parallel sparse linear system solver based on Hermitian/skew-Hermitian splitting
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2016,
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