The objective of “Archives” is to provide an active forum for disseminating results of research and advanced industrial practice in the broadly understood field of computational engineering with particular emphasis on mechanics and its related areas.

A unique feature which sets this publication apart from the rest of literature being currently published in the form of journals and books is that is exclusively aims at publishing extended state-of-the-art reviews presenting detailed developments in selected areas of computational engineering. The articles are not mere literature surveys; a critical exposition of the topic in its full complexity will always be attempted.

Computational engineering is the leading theme of this publication. Specifically, it covers modelling, solution techniques and applications of computational methods in such areas as liquid and gas dynamics, solid and structural mechanics, bio-mechanics, multi-body system dynamics, stochastic processes, transport phenomena, heat transfer, coupled problems, control and optimization, computer graphics, CAD/CAM etc.

Variational formulations and numerical algorithms related to implementation of the finite and boundary element methods, finite difference and finite volume methods and other basic computational methodologies will clearly be the core areas covered.