Many materials or media in nature and technology possess a microstructure which determines their macroscopic behaviour. The knowledge of the relevant mechanisms is often more comprehensive on the micro than on the macro scale. On the other hand, not all information on the micro level is relevant for the understanding of this macro behaviour. Therefore, averaging and homogenization methods are needed to select only the specific information from the micro scale, which influences the macro scale. These methods also open the possibility to design or to influence microstructures with the objective to optimize their macro behaviour.

This book presents the development of new methods in this interdisciplinary field of macro- micro-interactions of different engineering branches like mechanical and process engineering, applied mathematics, theoretical, and computational physics. In particular, solids with microstructures and particle systems are considered.

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Inelastic Material Behaviour of Polycrystals.- Normal Grain Growth: Monte Carlo Potts Model Simulation and Mean-Field Theory.- Microstructural Influences on Tensile Properties of hpdc AZ91 Mg Alloy.- On Different Strategies for Micro-Macro Simulations of Metal Forming.- Simulation of Texture Development in a Deep Drawing Process.- Modelling and Simulation of the Portevin-Le Chatelier Effect.- Plastic Deformation Behaviour of Fe-Cu Composites.- Regularisation of the Schmid Law in Crystal Plasticity.- A Lower Bound Estimation of a Twinning Stress for Mg by a Stress Jump Analysis at the Twin-Parent Interface.- Fibre and Particle Reinforced Solids.- Numerical Evaluation of Effective Material Properties of Piezoelectric Fibre Composites.- Evolutionary Optimisation of Composite Structures.- Fibre Rotation Motion in Homogeneous Flows.- Solids under Thermal Stressing.- Distortion and Residual Stresses during Metal Quenching Process.- Micro Model for the Analysis of Spray Cooling Heat Transfer Influence of Droplet Parameters.- Finite Element Simulation of an Impinging Liquid Droplet.- Pore-Scale Modelling of Transport Phenomena in Drying.- Dynamics of Particles and Particle Systems.- Micro and Macro Aspects of the Elastoplastic Behaviour of Sand Piles.- Micro-Macro Deformation and Breakage Behaviour of Spherical Granules.- Investigations of the Restitution Coefficient of Granules.- Oblique Impact Simulations of High Strength Agglomerates.- Shear Dynamics of Ultrafine Cohesive Powders.- CFD-Modelling of the Fluid Dynamics in Spouted Beds.- Numerical Study of the Influence of Diffusion of Magnetic Particles on Equilibrium Shapes of a Free Magnetic Fluid Surface.- A Note on Sectional and Finite Volume Methods for Solving Population Balance Equations.- Population BalanceModelling for Agglomeration and Disintegration of Nanoparticles.