Aeroelasticity and Machinery Design
- Aerodynamics of racing cars
- Aero-elasticity effects in aircraft design
- Flexible structures in machinery design
Turbomachinery Applications
- Blade deformation and its influence to the fluid dynamics
- Thermal loads resulting from the fluid flow
- Flow-induced blade vibrations
Vehicle and Machine Dynamics
- Extreme component loads in misuse cases
- External fluid loads in vehicle dynamics
- Vehicle ground interaction
Automotive Thermal Management
- Best-in-class CFD combined with efficient radiation models
- Full scale car models
- Automated CAE processes
Electrical Components
- Electric arcs in switching devices
- Cooling of transformers, e-motors, etc
- Dynamic EMAG-loads for vibration analysis
Micro-Electronic Devices
- Transfer of thermal results from CFD to thermals stress calculations in FEA
CAE Process Chains and Passive Safety
- Crashworthiness and durability prediction using integrated CAE process chains
- Comparing simulation and experimental results
Numerical Simulation in Life Sciences
- Microchips against prostate cancer
- Diagnostic methods for sepsis
- In-vitro toxicology
- Aortic stent design
Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI