Many problems in mechanics involve deformable domains with 
moving boundaries. Examples include fluid-structure 
interaction, free surface flows, flows over soft tissues 
and textiles, flows involving accretion/erosion, flows 
through deformable porous media, material forming, shape 
optimisation, to name but a few. The interaction of the 
moving boundary with the participating media leads to 
fascinating phenomena in a very broad range of contexts 
such as flutter, wave-breaking, dune formation, ripple 
formation on the ocean floor, flow instabilities, 
structure resonance and failure, atherosclerosis, ice 
formation on aircraft wings.

This symposium, which is going to be the first IUTAM 
Symposium in New Zealand, aims to gather the community of 
engineers and scientists involved in moving boundary and 
related problems in mechanics.

The symposium will facilitate a mix of researchers working 
on the development of related mathematical methods and 
algorithms, and applications of recent and ongoing 
problems. We also encourage researchers performing 
experiments related to moving boundary problems to 
participate. Since the community of researchers involved 
in moving boundary problems in mechanics is fairly 
fragmented, we believe that this symposium will be a 
unique opportunity to cross-fertilise ideas and concepts 
from different disciplines of mechanics and foster 
engineering applications.