CMEA 2014 - Symposium on Computational Modeling and Experimental Assessment of Transport Processes in Building Materials and their Multi-Layered Systems

Organizer: Prof. Robert Černý, Department of Materials Engineering and Chemistry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Thákurova 7, 16629 Prague 6, Czech Republic
E-mail: cernyr-AT-fsv.cvut.cz
Transport and accumulation of heat, moisture, chemical substances, and momentum are phenomena which affect the building materials and structures over their whole lifetime period. Their satisfactory description requires primarily a choice of proper physical and mathematical models because the transport mechanisms are coupled. The computational implementation of mathematical models is another essential factor involving an application of appropriate methods of numerical solution. The computer simulation tools cannot be utilized properly without knowledge of a variety of transport and storage material parameters, which have to be determined experimentally in a wide range of field quantities, such as temperature, moisture content, and concentration of a particular chemical compound. The applied models are also supposed to be verified using critical experiments, in order to assess their overall quality. Therefore, in practical applications the computational modeling and experimental assessment of transport processes cannot be separated without a risk of significant departure from the physical reality.
The symposium brings together physicists, chemists, mathematicians, and engineers working in the field of transport processes in building materials.
The main topics include but are not limited to:
Theoretical models of transport phenomena
Computer simulation tools
Material parameters
Model verification techniques
Environmental effects on building structures
Service life assessment studies
Other applications in building science and building practice