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Interview / 26.11.2024

Innovative Simulation Tools for Optimizing Foam Production

Dr. Konrad Steiner, Head of the »Flow and Material Simulation« department, talks about our FOAM simulation tool in an interview. The department will be at Foam Expo Europe from December 3 to 5, 2024, presenting our products and research into foam production for lightweight construction.

 

News / 18.11.2024

New Simulation Solution for Batteries

Hexagon has launched a new battery cell design solution that combines our battery simulation tool (BEST) with Hexagon's multiphysics material simulation and measurement software. This virtual solution has considerable cost and productivity advantages. 

 

Press Release / 17.10.2024

Digital Twins for Filtration

At FILTECH 2024 in Cologne from November 12 to 14, 2024, Dr. Ralf Kirsch and his team will be presenting innovative approaches to the simulation-based improvement of filter technology.

The focus will be on the challenge of designing digital twins in separation technology more comprehensively by considering the entire process chain. 

 

Annual Report 2023/24

The highlight projects from our department in the current annual report can be downloaded here as a PDF:

 

Press Release / 14.06.2024

Fraunhofer ITWM at the »Battery Show Europe 2024« in Stuttgart

Battery simulation has been a focus of research at our institute for many years. Quality control has recently been added to this area of research. The focus here is on electrodes and their conductive properties. At the leading trade fair »Battery Show Europe« in Stuttgart, experts will be presenting these innovations in Hall 9 at Booth B85.

 

Press Release / 05.03.2024

Digital Twin for All Process Steps in Battery Production

Optimizing batteries is one of the most important tasks for industry and science. The simulation of battery models has been part of our daily business for years.

The Ministry of Science and Health is now supporting a new project that models the entire manufacturing process.

 

Press Release / 29.02.2024

Testing and Analyzing Composite Materials With Fraunhofer Expertise

JEC World describes itself as the »Festival of Composites«, as composites professionals from all over the world gather under its roof in Paris every year. Researchers from the Fraunhofer ITWM will also be there. We present testing and analysis methods for composite materials at the joint Fraunhofer stand from March 5 to 7 2024.

 

Press Release/ 05.02.2024

Completion of the EU Project »ALMA«

In the EU project »ALMA – Advanced Light Materials and Processes for the Eco-Design of Electric Vehicle«, nine European organizations worked on developing more energy-efficient and sustainable vehicles.

The project was completed in February.

Events

 

Stuttgart / Fair / 03.12 – 05.12.2024

Foam Expo Europe 2024

Foam Expo Europe is one of the largest trade fairs for technical foams and their manufacturing processes in Europe.

Our experts from the »Flow and Material Simulation« department are on site to provide information about our research. In addition, Dr. Konrad Steiner, head of the »Flow and Material Simulation« department, gives a lecture on the topic »Accelerating and Optimization of Foam Production Using Fast and Accurate Digital Prediction Tools«.

 

Braunschweig / Conference / 27.11. – 29.11.2024

International Battery Production Conference 2024

Our expert Dr. Jochen Zausch from the »Flow and Material Simulation« department presents a poster at the conference entitled »Simulation of the Electrolyte Wetting Process: Physical Model and Parametrization Approach«.

 

Köln / Fair / 12.11. – 14.11.2024

FILTECH 2024

FILTECH is the world's largest event for filtration and separation, where innovative technologies and research results are presented at a trade fair and an accompanying conference. As part of this community, our »Flow and Material Simulation«, »Transport Processes« and »Image Processing« departments contribute to innovations in this important field of application through modelling, simulation and digitalization and present their latest developments on site.

 

Munich / Workshop / 15.10 – 16.10.2024

Advancing Scientific Machine Learning in Industry

Our experts Dr. Matthias Kabel, Dr. Matti Schneider and Pavan Bhat Keelanje Srinivas will present two posters on site: »Selective Distillation Algorithm to Evaluate Deep Material Networks« and »Deep Material Networks«.

Vacancies

Scientific Staff, Project Manager, Software Developer

If you are interested in solving interesting, up-to-date modeling and simulation tasks for complex technical-scientific questions in the industrial environment, you should contact us.

In current projects with the industry, we are concerned with the flow-dynamic design of filter materials and filter systems, the simulation-based development of fuel cell and battery materials and the thermomechanical behavior of modern composite and hybrid materials.

They work on the latest developments in the efficient numerical treatment of multiscale models for the virtual design of materials and products and can contribute to the development of user-friendly simulation tools.

From all applicants, we expect confident handling of modern programming languages, preferably C ++, interest or experience in software development and object-oriented software design as well as good German and English language skills.

 

Doctoral Candidates

The department »Flow and Material Simulation«  enables to graduate in a variety of interesting fields of application:

  • AI-assisted multi-scale framework for optimal infiltration of fiber-reinforced composites
  • Asymptotic analysis and simulation-based design of additively manufactured material structures and technical textiles
  • Deep Material Networks for multi-scale simulation of composites and metamaterials
  • End-to-end modeling and simulation of the production and application behavior of foams as damping or insulation materials
  • Data-supported multi-scale modeling, simulation and optimisation of apparatus and processes in separation technology (filtration, separation, treatment)
  • Highly efficient battery simulation models for the regional, usage-dependent online prediction of energy requirements of electric vehicles

More information can be found here.

 

Graduate Assistant

In addition, our department has interesting tasks for scientific assistants from the main study course in mathematics, engineering sciences or physics. Expect basic knowledge and interest in computational simulation and / or programming competency.

 

The remuneration takes place after consultation.