The International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering publishes original papers describing significant, novel developments in numerical methods that are applicable to engineering problems.
The Journal is known for welcoming contributions in a wide range of areas in computational engineering, including computational issues in model reduction, uncertainty quantification, verification and validation, inverse analysis and stochastic methods, optimisation, element technology, solution techniques and parallel computing, damage and fracture, mechanics at micro and nano-scales, low-speed fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, electromagnetics, coupled diffusion phenomena, and error estimation and mesh generation. It is emphasized that this is by no means an exhaustive list, and particularly papers on multi-scale, multi-physics or multi-disciplinary problems, and on new, emerging topics are welcome.
Manuscripts should have sufficient original numerical content, and generate new knowledge that is applicable to general classes of engineering problems, and not be limited to applications of existing methods, or propose incremental improvements to existing methods.
The journal publishes full-length papers, which should not normally exceed 30 pages, and short communications, which can be at most 8 journal pages. Discussions of papers in print can be published, but two-part papers will not be considered for review.

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Professor René de Borst
The Centenary Professor of Civil Engineering
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Sir Frederick Mappin Building, Mappin Street
Sheffield, S1 3JD, UK
e-mail: r.deborst@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Charbel Farhat
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering,
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
e-mail: cfarhat@stanford.edu
EDITORS
Professor Jacob Fish
Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
e-mail: fishj@columbia.edu
Professor Isaac Harari
Faculty of Engineering,
Tel-Aviv University,
Ramat-Aviv 69978, Israel
e-mail: harari@eng.tau.ac.il
Professor Antonio Huerta
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Escola de Camins
Jordi Girona 1
Barcelona 08034, Spain
e-mail: antonio.huerta@upc.es
Professor Kenjiro Terada
Tohoku University
International Research Institute of Disaster Science
468-1 Aza-aoba, Aramaki
Aoba-ku
Sendai
Miyagi 980-0845, Japan
e-mail: tei@irides.tohoku.ac.jp

EDITORIAL BOARD
M. Ainsworth
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, UK
F. M. H. Aliabadi
Imperial College
London, UK
F. Armero
University of California,
Berkeley, USA
F Auricchio
Universita di Pavia,
Italy
I. Babuska
University of Texas at Austin,
USA
K. J. Bathe
MIT, Cambridge, USA
Z. P. Bazant
Northwestern University,
Evanston, USA
D. J. Benson
University of California,
San Diego, USA
M. A. Bradford
University of New South Wales,
Australia
A. Cardona
Universidad Nacional del Litoral / Conicet,
Santa Fe, Argentina
J.S. Chen
University of California,
San Diego, USA
F. Chinesta
Ecole Centrale de Nantes,
Nantes, France
A. Combescure
LaMCoS INSA de Lyon
Villeurbanne, France
A. Coutinho
COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
J. Dolbow
Duke University
Durham, USA
C. A. Felippa
University of Colorado,
Boulder, USA
P. Frey
Université Pierre et Marie Curie,
Paris, France
D. Givoli
Technion, Haifa, Israel
R. Haber
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA
T. J. R. Hughes
University of Texas at Austin,
USA
G. M. Hulbert
The University of Michigan,
USA
S. Idelsohn
Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Santa Fe, Argentina
K. Kashiyama
Chuo University
Tokyo, Japan
M. Kleiber
Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw, Poland
T. A. Laursen
Khalifa University
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
X. K. Li
Dalian University of Technology,
People's Republic of China
G. R. Liu
University of Cincinnati,
USA
W. K. Liu
Northwestern University,
Evanston, USA
N. Moes
Ecole Centrale de Nantes,
Nantes, France
J. T. Oden
University of Texas at Austin,
USA
S. Nishiwaki
Kyoto University,
Kyoto, Japan
R. Ohayon
CNAM, Paris,
France
J. Oliver
Technical University of Catalonia,
Barcelona, Spain
E. Oñate
Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya,
Barcelona, Spain
M. Ortiz
California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, USA
K. C. Park
University of Colorado,
Boulder, USA
J. Peraire
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA
J. -P. Ponthot
Université de Liége
Belgium
E. Ramm
Stuttgart University,
Germany
J. N. Reddy
Texas A&M University,
College Station, USA
K. Runesson
Chalmers University of Technology,
Goteborg, Sweden
B. Schrefler
Universita di Padova,
Italy
M. S. Shephard
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, USA
O. Sigmund
Technical University of Denmark,
Lyngby, Denmark
P. Steinmann
Universitat Kaiserslautern,
Germany
K. K. Tamma
University of Minnesota,
USA
R. L. Taylor
University of California,
Berkeley, USA
W. A. Wall
Technische Universität München,
Germany
B. Wohlmuth
Technische Universität München,
Germany
P. Wriggers
University of Hannover,
Germany
L. C. Wrobel
Brunel University,
UK
G. Yagawa
University of Tokyo,
Japan
N. J. Zabaras
Cornell University,
USA
T. Zohdi
University of California,
Berkely,USA


HONORARY EDITOR
Professor Roland W. Lewis
School of Engineering,
Swansea University,
Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
e-mail: ijnmeuk@wiley.ac.uk