Finding the Best Way to make Crepes with Fluid Dynamics Research

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comsolcrepsmallFor a physicist, inspiration for better designs and techniques can strike at any time. For a hungry physicist, inspiration usually strikes at mealtime. Case in point: a cooking method that comes easily to a seasoned chef, but provides frustrations for at-home cooks ? making a crêpe. Two researchers, in their search for the perfect crêpe, used simulation to see if they could cook this classic cuisine more evenly.

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Potential of digital Assistance Systems in Industrial Production

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iaoproduktionsmallIndustry 4.0 technologies can help manufacturing companies meet current challenges. Above all, digital assistance systems are becoming increasingly important for the cooperation between people and machines. Which technologies offer the greatest potential?

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Call for Papers for the automotive CAE Grand Challenge 2020

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caegc2020bigIn September we have identified the current, critical challenges of automotive CAE through a survey among the CAE experts of the international automotive industry. From the survey results we have extracted the 7 "Grand Challenges? which form the topics of the sessions of the automotive CAE Grand Challenge 2020.

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Survey identifies current, critical Challenges of automotive CAE

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surveysmallIn September we conducted a survey among the CAE engineers of the international car industry in order to determine the current, critical challenges of automotive CAE. In the document provided on our website you find the results of the survey.

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The LEGO Bet: Numerical Simulation of a Porsche GT3 RS impacting a Bugatti Chiron

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dynamorelegosmallIn 2016, the computer magazine c't crashed the then-new Porsche GT3 RS in cooperation with the ADAC - as a scale-reduced LEGO® model.


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Video: How to improve Safety Assessment using Virtual Testing and Human Body Models

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virtualircobi2019smallOn 10 September 2019 Horizon2020 projects OSCCAR and VIRTUAL organized a workshop on Virtual Testing and open-source Human Body Models. The goal of the workshop was to gather the thoughts and ideas from experts and stakeholders within the virtual testing community.

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Automatic Analysis of Numerical Simulation Results in Automotive Engineering

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numerischesimulationscaismallNumerical simulations on the computer have been replacing costly and expensive real-life tests in automotive engineering since many years. An example is crash tests. This entails enormous amounts of simulation data, the evaluation of which presents a challenge.

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HPE completes Acquisition of Supercomputing Leader Cray

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craysmallHewlett Packard Enterprise has announced it has completed the acquisition of supercomputing leader Cray Inc., earlier than the original target date. HPE paid $35.00 per share, in a transaction valued at approximately $1.4 billion, net of cash.

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Altair Partner Alliance includes Software for System Simulation of Batteries

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altair200Improving the system performance of batteries is crucial to the planned global growth in electric vehicles. An accurate battery model is the starting point for battery design, system control and optimization.

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Relevance of Muscle Stiffness for Occupant Safety

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MuskelsteifigkeitemismallNot only materials and materials are in the focus of research in crash applications, but above all the human being itself, which has to be protected in a variety of possible accident scenarios. For the safety evaluation of various load scenarios, increasingly human models are used in the automotive sector.

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