Foreword Catalonia (Barcelona Tech),Campus Nord UPC, Edifici C-l, c, Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain

摘要

The increasing power of computers and the advent of numerical methods and simulation-based sciences have brought enormous changes in many scientific fields. Well-established paradigms in engineering sciences, based on analytical or experimental methods, are increasingly being replaced by or coupled to computational methodologies that, though requiring intensive computations, supply detailed information and rapid answers to engineering problems, much beyond the dreams of the past decades.