ECCOMAS WCCM 2026

The WCCM 2026 will take place in Munich, Germany, between July 19-24.

We are again organizing a preCICE minisymposium: Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Simulations With The Coupling Library preCICE (MS070) and a social event before that.

Note that we are offering no training course this time. Consider joining the full online training in October .

Feel free to ask questions in the corresponding thread of the forum .

Schedule of the Minisymposium

The preCICE Minisymposium spreads over two sessions on Thursday, July 23.

If you are a speaker, see the documentation page Talk about your work for some guidelines on preparing a great talk for this audience.

Thursday, July 23, 14:00-14:45

Room: NM - 6 (Munich) , Session: MS070A

• A quick introduction to the coupling library preCICE (Gerasimos Chourdakis, University of Stuttgart, Germany)
• Beyond Static Meshes in preCICE (Frédéric Simonis, University of Stuttgart, Germany)
• Turek-Hron FSI Benchmark simulations with TRACE and CalculiX (Matthias Freimuth, MTU Aero Engines AG, Germany)

Stay until the end of the second session for an extended Q&A.

Thursday, July 23, 15:00-16:30

Room: NM - 6 (Munich) , Session: MS070B

• Simulation of Moving Electromagnetic Parts with Finite- and Boundary Elements (Jürgen Zechner, TAILSIT GmbH, Austria)
• Partitioned Physics Coupling for Thermal Transport Problems in the Subsurface using preCICE (Orie Cecil, USACE ERDC, USA)
• Numerical Integration of OpenFOAM with BioDynaMo Using preCICE for Multiscale and Multiphysics Problems in (Bio)Physics (Alexandros Iosif, University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
• Thermo-Mechanically Coupled FE–FFT Homogenization of Porous Materials (Julian Dahler, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany) (cancelled)

At the end of the session, we will use the remaining time for an extended Q&A.

Related talks in other sessions and further events

Let us know if you are talking about preCICE in another session, and we will add it to the list.

Monday

14:00-14:45, in MS243B - Progress in Computational Multiphysics Using Open-Source Software II :

• Coupling in-house and open-source simulation codes via preCICE (Gerasimos Chourdakis, University of Stuttgart, Germany)

Tuesday

We are organizing an informal coming together of the preCICE community at a restaurant on Tuesday evening, advertised among participants of the preCICE minisymposium. Contact Gerasimos Chourdakis until lunchtime on Tuesday if you would like to join us.

Wednesday

9:45-11:15, in MS093A Novel Coupling Techniques to Enable Efficient and Robust Simulation of Digital Twins I :

• Surrogate-assisted Partitioned Modeling of Fractures in Glacier Ice (Jun Chen, University of Stuttgart, Germany)

11:30-13:00, in MS057B Modeling of Glaciers and Ice Sheets II :

• Subglacial hydrology modelling: achievements and challenges in simulating entire ice sheets (Angelika Humbert, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany)

11:30-13:00, in MS093B Novel Coupling Techniques to Enable Efficient and Robust Simulation of Digital Twins II :

• Efficient Partition-of-Unity Radial-Basis-Function Interpolation for Coupled Problems (Benjamin Uekermann, University of Stuttgart, Germany)

Friday

11:30-13:00, in MS007B Synthesizing Experimental and Computational Perspectives in Mechanics/Mechanobiology of Soft Tissues: Dialogue Towards Mechanistic Insight II :

• A Multi-scale Framework for Electromechanical Simulations of Skeletal Muscle (Carme Homs-Pons, University of Stuttgart, Germany)

11:30-13:00, in MS095D Advances and Challenges in Phase-Field Modeling and Computations IV :

• Fire-Structure Interaction: Toward a Hybrid Coupled Simulation Using Phase-Field for Unreinforced Concrete Under Fire (Chaitanya Kandekar, Helmut-Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany)