Winter School on Continuous Media Mechanics

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PREFACEWinter Schools on Continuum Mechanics are held biennially by the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences beginning with 2017. The papers in this issue of the journal were selected on the basis of their bearing on the materials of the XX Winter School held in 2017.About 350 people from 30 cities of 7 countries (Russia, Austria, Germany, Poland, Israel, India, Japan) took part in the work of the XX-th Winter School on Continuum Mechanics. Russian participants represented 47 organizations in 23 cities (Perm, St.-Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Samara Rostov-on-Don, etc.) The scope of the problems addressed at the Conference is extremely wide and includes the following topics:– computational continuum mechanics– coupled problems of solid mechanics– physics and mechanics of meso- and nano-structured systems– convection, hydrodynamic stability and turbulence– hydrodynamics of multiphase media– hydrodynamics of non-Newtonian liquids and liquids with special characteristics– interdisciplinary studiesAll these topics are among the central themes of modern continuum mechanics, as evidenced by the increasing number of publications in the leading Russian and foreign journals During the panel sessions a great number of papers on the fundamental and applied problems of continuum mechanics were presented. Of particular interest were the invited papers of the well-known specialists in different areas of continuum mechanics (full members of RAS, corresponding members of RAS, doctors of sciences), and the presentations of representatives of industries manufacturing hi-tech products.Chairman of the XX Winter School On Continuum Mechanicsacademician of RAS V.P. Matveenko