Computational mechanics

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Computational mechanics is the discipline concerned with the use of computational methods to study phenomena governed by the principles of mechanics.^[1] Before the emergence of computational science (also called scientific computing) as a "third way" besides theoretical and experimental sciences, computational mechanics was widely considered to be a sub-discipline of applied mechanics. It is now considered to be a sub-discipline within computational science.