Natural Element Method for the Simulation of Structures and Processes - Chinesta, Francisco (Ecole Centrale of Nantes, France) a Cescotto, Serge (ArGenCo, University of Liege, Belgium) a Cueto, Elias (University of Saragossa, Spain) a Lorong, Philippe (Arts et Metiers ParisTech, Paris, France)

Computational mechanics is the discipline concerned with the use of computational methods to study phenomena governed by the principles of mechanics. Before the emergence of computational science as a "third way" besides theoretical and experimental sciences, computational mechanics was widely considered to be a sub-discipline of applied mechanics.