Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts presenting recent research, teaching innovation, or professional applications.
Special Focus:
- Employing simulations to explore social impacts
- Computational wind engineering
- Hydrodynamics of hurricanes and tsunamis
- CFD Modeling: Wind, storm surge, and tsunami effects
Topics of interest include:
- Climate-informed modeling of hurricane hazards
- The future of storm surge modeling: Impacts of climate change and rapidly intensifying events
- Compound flooding: Modeling, risk assessment, and data-driven schemes
- Coastal hazards: Tsunami CFD for high-fidelity calculation of wave and wind loads
- Engineering for extreme winds: Vulnerability and performance-based assessments of buildings and communities
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- Advances in damage and loss simulation: High-fidelity models and emerging hazards
- Simulating functional recovery from building to the community level
- Lifeline systems: From hazard to recovery
- Cloud-based tools, data and model interoperability to facilitate community resilience modeling
- Socio-technical models of resilience and recovery
- Engaging communities for use-inspired and translational research
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- Uncertainty Quantification methodologies for natural hazards
- Advances and Applications in High Performance Computing
- AI in natural hazards simulation
- Calibration of models to experimental/observational data
- Making data, benchmarks and testbeds reusable and AI/ML-ready
- Digital Twins and Emerging Technologies
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- Geohazards: Coastal, earthquakes, and landslides
- Wildfire resilience at the wildland-urban interface
- Earthquake hazard simulation
- Simulating earthquake impacts on buildings & bridges
- Earthquake regional risk and recovery Multi-hazard simulations
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Educator Submissions
- Faculty are encouraged to submit abstracts discussing teaching state-of-the-art simulation methods for natural hazard risk reduction.
- See our Teaching Gallery for examples on sharing these activities.
Abstracts that include outcomes facilitated by SimCenter tools, DesignSafe resources, or other NHERI facilities are particularly welcome. However, any compelling, forward looking, simulation-based abstracts will be considered. Activities (research or professional work) must address both computation simulation and natural hazard events. Specifically, research must advance, employ, apply the results of, or generate data to enable the use of computational methods, which includes AI/ML, to investigate natural hazard events and the impact of these events on the natural world and human environments.
