This book contains proceedings of select papers presented at the 23rd International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM 2025), held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, from 16–22 September 2025. It offers a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed contributions that highlight recent advances in computational methods and numerical techniques with real-world applications. Emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary nature of the work, showcasing how modern mathematical tools address challenges across science, engineering, and industry. It contains the diversity of topics and the depth of applied insights, supported by rigorous analysis and innovative approaches. The book also serves as a valuable reference for identifying emerging trends in computational mathematics. It is intended for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students engaged in numerical analysis, applied mathematics, scientific computing, and related fields.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Simulating deformable objects: a numerical perspective.- Chapter 2 Regularization in latent spaces with high-dimensional linear geometric flows for variational autoencoders.- Chapter 3 Simulation of liquid water column impacted by a shock wave using targeted ENO scheme.- Chapter 4 Axial versus Radial-Axial Water Jet in the Discharge Cone of Hydraulic Turbines.- Chapter 5 An Evaluation of Different Drift-flux Model Formulations in Flow Simulations in Pipeline–Riser Systems.- Chapter 6 CFD Analysis of Slot Jet Impingement on a Moving Plate.- Chapter 7 A Computational Validation and Investigation of Micro-droplet Behaviour after Collision on Superhydrophobic Surface.- Chapter 8 CFD Modeling of Shock–Droplet Interaction with Phase Change.- Chapter 9 Numerical Analysis of Slip-Modified MHD Flow and Thermal Transport through Boundary Discretization.- Chapter 10 CFX vs. FLUENT codes for Numerical Simulation of the Vortex Rope from the Conical Diffuser of Hydraulic Turbines.- Chapter 11 Liquid Jet Atomization in a Swirling Crossflow using a VOF-LPT Coupled Framework.- Chapter 12 Numerical analysis of blood flow in aorta in the presence of right iliac aneurysm.- Chapter 13 A Study of the Numerical Simulation of Simpson’s Water-Hammer Experiment.- Chapter 14 Numerical Modeling of Magnetic Microrobot Transport in Microvascular Networks Using Immersed Boundary Method.- Chapter 15 Comparison of the electrical properties of 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ionic liquid with incorporated fluorescent probe and the influence of UV radiation.- Chapter 16 Synergistic Effect of Magnesium Potassium Phosphate Cement and Expanded Perlite for Immobilization of Cu, Ni and Zn.- Chapter 17 Bio-Inspired Reinforcement of Lime/Pozzolan Mortars: Performance Assessment of Horsehair Fibers Addition.- Chapter 18 Thermal and Thermoelectric Properties of Composites based on Magnesium Oxychloride Cement with Alumina Nanosheets.- Chapter 19 Animal-Hair Fibre Reinforced Lime Mortars for Preservation of Historic Buildings.- Chapter 20 Electric and Dielectric Properties of Concretes based on Magnesium Oxychloride Cement with Alumina Nanosheets.- Chapter 21 Integral-Boundary Problem for PDEs of Hyperbolic type with Functional Term.- Chapter 22 Planar Linear Differential Weakly Delayed Equations With Constant Coe cients and Multiple Delays.- Chapter 23 Existence of a Bounded Solution to a Linear System of Two Discrete Equations.- Chapter 24 On the symmetry in sharp oscillation criteria for second-order half-linear functional differential equations.- Chapter 25 Monotonic solutions and their applications in oscillatory theory.- Chapter 26 Approximate solution to an initial value problem for the Van der Pol equation with the integral forcing term.- Chapter 27 From the Pentagram to the Graph Encoded Path through Rossinis Notes.- Chapter 28 Flatness-based control in successive loops for the 6-DOF autonomous coaxial rotor UAV.- Chapter 29 Flatness-based control in successive loops for the 6-DOF autonomous bicopter.- Chapter 30 Analysis of Material Settings for Numerical Models of Clinch Joints.- Chapter 31 Dynamic Response of Composite Bridge Beam.- Chapter 32 Slope Stability Analysis.- Chapter 33 High Precision Explicit Time Step Method for Solving Structural Vibrations.- Chapter 34 Two-Story Steel Frame in 3D – Sensitivity Study Using FEM.- Chapter 35 Viscoelastic Material Models with Damage:Mathematical and Computational Remarks.- Chapter 36 Selected Techniques for Modelling Crack Propagation in Materials with Inhomogeneous Structure.- Chapter 37 Health Identification Using Numerical Analysis Verified by Tests.- Chapter 38 Design of Online Monitoring System on Arch Bridge.- Chapter 39 Identification of Elastic and Damping Parameters of a Truck Suspension through Metaheuristic Optimization A Numerical-Experimental Approach.- Chapter 40 Influence of Strut Diameter on the Impact Response of PLA Wavy BCC Lattices for UAV Structural Components: A Preliminary Numerical Investigation.- Chapter 41 Numerical Validation of NASA Experimental Data on Iced NACA 23012 Airfoil Aerodynamics.- Chapter 42 Point Cloud-Based Pose Estimation for Proximity Operations.- Chapter 43 HRV Based Pilot’s Workload Prediction Through Machine Learning Algorithm.- Chapter 44 Assessment of OpenFOAM Solvers for Liquid Sloshing.- Chapter 45 Identification of cable tension anomalies based on bridge deck vibration response and unsupervised convolutional autoencoder.- Chapter 46 Hybrid Modelling Approach for Additive Manufacturing Parameters using Dimensional Analysis and Bayesian Statistics.- Chapter 47 Comparison of machine learning methods for crack identification in beams resting on Pasternak foundation.- Chapter 48 Application of the Higher Order Haar Wavelet Method in Engineering.- Chapter 49 Forecasting effusive eruptions through satellite remote sensing and numerical modelling: The case of La Palma.- Chapter 50 Temporal gravity variations at Mount Etna through a comparison of terrestrial and satellite data.- Chapter 51 Integration of GIS and Safe System principles for efficient road safety planning.- Chapter 52 Multitemporal Remote Sensing NDVI and albedo analysis for monitoring of vegetation trends in Sicily.- Chapter 53 Remote Sensing Analysis in the Alcantara Valley. Preliminary remarks.- Chapter 54 Impact of Urban and Environmental Elements on Cyclist Accidents: A GIS Buffer-Based Analysis.- Chapter 55 Ground Vehicle Path Planning for Garbage Collection in Beaches.- Chapter 56 Mechanical properties of thermally loaded alkali-acti-vated ceramic waste.- Chapter 57 Analysis of Thermal Parameters of Foundry Waste.- Chapter 58 Metashale geopolymer mortar with carbon fiber dust:thermoelectric potential.- Chapter 59 Design of restoration plasters for the early 20th-century facades.- Chapter 60 Nonlinear Dynamics of Magnetostrictive Laminated Composite Beam Using Nonlocal Strain Gradient Theory Considering Electromagnetic Actuation, Mechanical Impact and van der Waals Force.- Chapter 61 Nonlinear Vibration of Carbon Nanotubes Reinforced Composite Timoshenko Beam Subjected to Electromagnetic Actuation.- Chapter 62 An Optimal Homotopy Approach to an Oscillator with Cubic Nonlinear Damping.- Chapter 63 Dynamic Analysis of a Microcantilever Beam Under Harmonic Excitation.- Chapter 64 Painleve Analysis and Exact Solution to the Traveling Wave Reduction of the Generalized Burgers-Huxley Equation.- Chapter 65 Dynamic Moving-Mesh Adaptation for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: Shallow-Water Rarefactions and Buckley–Leverett Shocks.- Chapter 66 Phase plane analysis of travelling waves in an extended Fokas–Lenells model.- Chapter 67 Generalization of the Stefan problem for hydrophilic liquids.- Chapter 68 Development and Numerical Analysis of Structure Models for Metal Composites.- Chapter 69 Multiphysical Mathematical Model for Numerical Analysis of Radiation Gas Dynamics Processes in Boundary Layer.- Chapter 70 Direct Resolution for One Domain Grid System with Unknown Dirichlet-Type Boundary Conditions.- Chapter 71 Prospects for Automating Routine Operations at Universities due to the Development of Artificial Intelligence Technologies.- Chapter 72 Modeling the Influence of Innovative Factors in the Development of Socio-Economic Systems.- Chapter 73 Agent-Based Modeling as a Tool for Ensuring Comprehensive Quality of Education.- Chapter 74 Development of a simulation system-dynamic model of the influence of innovative factors on the structural dynamics of a region.- Chapter 75 Adaptation of Economic Systems to the Price Trends on Production Factors.- Chapter 76 Fuzzy Implication via Generalized Fuzzy Negation and Copula.- Chapter 77 Establishment of Novel STN Fuzzy Implication Models.- Chapter 78 Estimation of Second-Order Effects in Steel Structure Using Random Forest and Multiple Linear Regression Methods.- Chapter 79 A Unified Framework for Constructing Copulas generated by fuzzy implications via monotone Function Composition.- Chapter 80 Generalization of a Fuzzy Implication Model via Automorphism Functions.- Chapter 81 On Continuous Possibility-Probability Transformations.- Chapter 82 What should I expect from studying abroad? Perceptions of Portuguese students before and during an Erasmus experience.- Chapter 83 Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis on Sustainable Development Goals - a Portuguese Case Study.- Chapter 84 Students perspective on satisfaction of a Higher Education Institution: a preliminary statistical approach.- Chapter 85 Layout design to improve industrial facility efficiency: a case study applying ALDEP and CRAFT.- Chapter 86 Feeding agent-based models with a finite element method solution map, the first steps into establishing a numerical model chain to predict cellular electrotactic behaviour.- Chapter 87 AI-Driven Force–Torque Control Strategies for the New Age of Industrial Robots.- Chapter 88 Unsteady turbulent flow predictions by means of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Machine Learning.- Chapter 89 Numerical simulation and physical analysis of the flow around a 2D A320 wing prototype: electroactive morph-ing through waves actuation.- Chapter 90 An AI-based multi-scale computational strategy for modeling fast transient problems of crash.
About the Author :
Theodore E. Simos is the president of the European Society of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (ESCMSE). He is an active member of both the European Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He currently serves at the Centre for Applied Mathematics and Bioinformatics, Gulf University for Science and Technology, West Mishref, Kuwait. He is also visiting professor at the Section of Mathematics, Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. He is editor-in-chief of five academic journals: Applied Mathematics and Computation (Elsevier), Journal of Computational Mathematics and Data Science (Elsevier), Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (ESCMSE), Journal of Numerical Analysis, Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ESCMSE). He is on the board of many other journals. He supervised eight PhD students all of whom are finished and now are faculty members in universities all over the world. His research interests include numerical analysis, applied mathematics, and computational methods, and he has made significant contributions to these fields through both scholarly publications and international collaborations.
Christos Tsitouras is a faculty member of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, General Department, located at the Euripus Campus, GR 34400, Greece. He is a specialist in numerical methods and their applications to scientific and engineering problems. He is editor in the Applied Mathematics and Computation journal (Elsevier). As co-editor of this volume, he contributes his expertise and longstanding involvement with the ICNAAM conference series, supporting the rigorous academic standards of the publication.
