Introduction

CMEM 2013 is the 16th International Conference in this well established series on Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements. These successful meetings provide a unique forum for the review of the latest work on the interaction between computational methods and experimental measurements.

This well known series of conferences started in Washington DC (1981) followed by a meeting on board the Queen Elizabeth II Ocean Liner (1984); Porto Carras, Greece (1986); Capri (1988); Montreal (1991); Siena (1993); Capri (1995); Rhodes (1997); Sorrento (1999); Alicante (2001); Sani Beach, Greece (2003); Malta (2005); Prague (2007); the Algarve (2009) and the New Forest, UK (2011).

The main scope of the meeting is to provide the international technical and scientific community with a forum to discuss the interaction and complementary aspects of computational methods and experimental measurements, the main consideration and importance being their advantageous integration.

The constant development of numerical procedures and the efficiency of computers, coupled with their decreasing costs, have generated an ever increasing growth of computational methods which are currently exploited both in a persistently expanding variety of science and technology subjects, as well as in our daily life. As these procedures continue to grow in size and complexity, it is essential to ensure their reliability. This can only be achieved by performing dedicated and accurate experiments. Current experimental techniques at the same time have become more complex and elaborate and require the use of computers for running tests and processing the resulting data.