Founder & Editor-in-Chief:

Prof. Satya N. Atluri, D.Sc(h.c)

Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of California , Irvine
Irvine, CA 92612, USA
Tel: 949.824.9946/9966;
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Corresponding Editors:
Prof. Wen-Hwa Chen, National Tsing Hua University, TAIWAN
Prof. Seung Jo Kim, Seoul National University, KOREA
Prof. Sung W. Lee, University of Maryland, USA
Prof. Nobutada Ohno, Nagoya University, JAPAN
Prof. Dimosthenes Polyzos, Univesity of Patras, GREECE
Dr. Gangan Prathap, Cochin University Of Science & Technology, INDIA
Dr. Ivatury S Raju, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Prof. Bernhard A. Schrefler, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, ITALY
Prof. Antony Patrick Selvadurai, McGill University, CANADA
Prof. Jan Sladek, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Prof. Hongwu Zhang, Dalian University of Technology, CHINA

Editorial Board:
Prof. Suresh Advani, University of Delaware, USA
Prof. Ferri Aliabadi, Imperial College London, GREAT BRITAIN
Dr. Ruben Avila-Rodriguez, UNAM, MEXICO
Prof. Dimitri Beskos, University of Patras, GREECE
Prof. Franco Brezzi, University of Pavia, ITALY
Prof. Zhangzhi Cen, Tsinghua University, CHINA
Prof. Namas Chandra, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Prof. Jeng-Tzong Chen, National Taiwan Ocean University, TAIWAN
Prof. Zhen Chen, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Prof. Rene de Borst, Eindhoven University of Technology, THE NETHERLANDS
Prof. Jose Dominguez, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
Dr. H. Eliot Fang, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Prof. Attilio Frangi, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY
Prof. Dan Givoli, Technion - Israel Institute of Tech., ISRAEL
Prof. S. Gopalakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, INDIA
Prof. Alexander Nikolay Guz, Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, UKRAINE
Prof. Masashi Iura, Tokyo Denki University, JAPAN
Prof. John L. Junkins, Texas A&M University, USA
Dr. Edward J Kansa, University of California, Davis, USA
Prof. Tarun Kant, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, INDIA
Prof. Albert Satoshi Kobayashi, University of Washington, USA
Prof. Ranga Komanduri, Oklahoma State University, USA
Prof. In Lee, KAIST, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Prof. Chein-Shan Liu, National Taiwan University, TAIWAN
Dr. Gui-Rong Liu, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
Dr. Qingwei Ma, City University, GREAT BRITAIN
Prof. Sanjay Mittal, IIT Kanpur, INDIA
Prof. Noriyuki Miyazaki, Kyoto University, JAPAN
Prof. Hidekazu Murakawa, Osaka University, JAPAN
Prof. Michihiko Nakagaki, Kyushu Institute of Technology, JAPAN
Prof. Gennadiy Nikishkov, University of Aizu, JAPAN
Prof. Jeom Kee Paik, Pusan National University, KOREA
Prof. Darrell W Pepper, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Prof. Henry Power, The University of Nottingham, GREAT BRITAIN
Dr. Marco Bruno Quadrelli, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Prof. R.K.N.D. Rajapakse, University of British Columbia, CANADA
Dr. Arunachalam M Rajendran, University of Mississippi, USA
Prof. L. Rothenburg, Univ. of Waterloo, CANADA
Prof. Bhavani V. Sankar, University of Florida, USA
Prof. Bozidar Sarler, University of Nova Gorica, SLOVENIA
Prof. A. (Tom) Scarpas, Delft University of Technology, NETHERLANDS
Prof. Dr. Robert A. Schaback, Universität Göttingen, GERMANY
Prof. Dr. Martin Schanz, Graz University of Technology, AUSTRIA
Prof. Ruediger Schmidt, RWTH Aachen University, GERMANY
Prof. Antoine Sellier, Ecole Poplytechnique, FRANCE
Prof. Srinivasan M Sivakumar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, INDIA
Prof. Paulo Sollero, State University of Campinas, BRAZIL
Prof. Jurica Soric, University of Zagreb, CROATIA
Prof. Xianyue Su, Peking University, CHINA
Prof. L.J. Sudak, University of Calgary, CANADA
Prof. Kumar K. Tamma, University of Mionnesota, USA
Prof. Choon-Lai Tan, Carleton University, CANADA
Dr. Vinod Tewary, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
Prof. Pin Tong, Univ of California, San Diago, USA
Prof. Rade Vignjevic, Cranfield University, UK
Dr. Anthony M Waas, University of Michigan, USA
Prof. Zhenhan Yao, Tsinghua University, CHINA
Pro. Shinobu Yoshimura, University of Tokyo, JAPAN