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)

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 (Wednesday, 11:30-13:00):

• 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)