NSCM 2026


Technical Programme


Scientific Programme

Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics

Thursday, November 5

09:00
Invited Lecture
Multibody System Dynamics Throughout the Product Lifetime

Aki Mikkola

Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

09:45
Coffee Break
10:00
A Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Wave Propagation in Elastic Beam Networks

Lucia Swoboda

Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden

10:20
Solving Elastoplasticity Problems with Two Point Stress Approximation (TPSA)

Chenyu Tian

University of Bergen, Norway

10:40
Efficient Discretization Techniques for Micromechanical Modelling of Megacast Aluminium: a Numerical Study of Conformal vs Non-conformal Meshes

Mélanie Fournier

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

11:00
Shape Optimization Considering Material Nonlinearity and Reliability

Julius Xaver Neszvecskó

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

11:20
Topology Optimization of Elasto-Plastic Structures

Mathias Wallin

Lund University, Sweden

11:40
A Lattice Spring Model for General Elastic Media

Espen Jettestuen

Norce research AS, Norway

12:00
Lunch
13:00
Hybrid Analysis and Modelling of the FluidFlower Rig

Trond Kvamsdal

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

13:20
Gradient-Based Topology Optimization of Surgical Suture Placement in Hyperelastic Skin

Niels Aage

Technical university of Denmark, Denmark

13:40
A Micro-Scale Informed Constitutive Model for Coupled Mechanical–Electrochemical Analysis of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Amit Chetry

Chalmers tekniska högskola AB, Sweden

14:00
Streaming Detection of Underwater Explosions Using Interpretable Acoustic Features

Hans Parel

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

14:20
A Parametric PINN for Mould Distortion in Automotive Shape Casting Using Sparse FEM Data

Gulshan Noorsumar

Institute for Energy Technology, Norway

14:40
Ontology-Grounded LLM Agents for Thermo-Mechanical Casting Simulations

Sayan Adhikari

Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), Norway

15:00
Coffee Break
15:30
NekoTOP: A large-scale topology optimization framework for unsteady flow problems

Abbas Mousavi

Lund University, Sweden

15:50
A High-Performance Framework for the Simulation of Blast-Induced Fluid-Structure Interactions

Hippolyte Lerogeron

NTNU, Norway

16:10
A Continuous-Discontinuous Shallow Water Solver for Compound Flood Modeling

Eirik Valseth

Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

16:30
Efficient discretization of heterogeneous Wasserstein distances on tensor-product grids

Trygve Tegnander

University of Bergen, Norway

16:50
Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian Simulation of Gravity-Driven Mass Flow Impact

Håkon Urdahl

NTNU, Norway

17:10
A closed-form unitary factorization for linearized rotating shallow water equations in coastal waters

Yuxuan Liu

University of Bergen, United Kingdom

Friday, November 6

09:00
Invited Lecture
Seeing and simulating: From imaging to prediction of mechanical properties

Martin Fagerstöm

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

09:45
Coffee Break
10:00
Adaptive iterative schemes for solving coupled problems

Jakob Stokke

University of Bergen, Norway

10:20
Coded Excitations for Ultrasonic Non-destructive Testing

Chengxiang Peng

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

10:40
Load Reconstruction for Nonlinear Structural Dynamics

Anders Aamodt Resell

NTNU, Norway

11:00
A Rate-Independent Model for Fiber Sliding in Needlepunched Nonwoven Textiles

Mykola Tkachuk

National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute”, Sweden

11:20
Analysis of Fiber Orientations in Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete and Simulated Bending Tests

Heiko Herrmann

Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia

11:40
Full Waveform Inversion for Thickness Reconstruction in Curved Pipes Using Guided Waves

Madis Ratassepp

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

12:00
Lunch
13:00
Invited Lecture
Learning from Experiments: Imaging, Simulation, and Discrepancy in Porous Media Flow

Jakub W. Both

University of Bergen, Norway

13:45
Coffee Break
14:00
Efficient prediction of deformation dependent permeability in porous media using RVE-simulations

Fredrik Larsson

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

14:20
A Reactive Transport Model for Geothermal Lithium Co-Production

Yuhe Zhang

University of Bergen, Norway

14:40
On the Computational Performance of Integral- and Gradient-Based Non-Local Damage Models for Ductile Fracture

David Morin

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

15:00
A Hemivariational Framework for Phase-field Fracture: Crack Nucleation Governed by General Strength Surfaces

Juan Michael Sargado

Independent Researcher, Denmark

15:20
Solving Linearized Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical and Contact Problems in Fractured Porous Media within PorePy

Yury Zabegaev

University of Bergen, Norway