Press Releases

News from the Dutch Schoonschip: Since January, the floating energy community of 30 houses has been connected to the energy and flexibility markets. The innovative solution from the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM for the real-time prognosis of consumption and local generation and price optimization enables the community to buy and sell electricity at the best possible prices on the day-ahead energy market. In addition, the 30 batteries are marketed by a trader on the imbalance market. This allows the community to further increase its flexibility and reduces energy costs for its members.

All companies want to produce as efficiently as possible, make optimum use of their machines and avoid wasting resources. A new project at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Kaiserslautern is researching how inline process and product monitoring can help companies achieve this. The Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Science and Health is funding the project.

Saving energy and using it sensibly – this goal runs through many projects at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM. In its projects, the institute is committed to making the generation, procurement and distribution of energy calculable. At E-world Energy and Water 2025 from February 11 to 13 in Essen, the institute will therefore be represented by three departments presenting their latest developments in the context of »energy«.

The United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ). They are thus honoring the 100th anniversary of the development of quantum mechanics. As a place of quantum research, we at Fraunhofer ITWM are participating in the anniversary year with educational programs and other events.

District heating networks are growing increasingly complex as a result of feeding in renewable energy and the trend toward decentralization. In the project »AD Net Heat«, Fraunhofer researchers are simulating heat flows throughout the entire network, predicting load peaks and helping to plan new grids.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM is extending its terahertz expertise to the mid-infrared range. Together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena, it is investigating nonlinear crystals for the optical frequency conversion of ultrashort laser pulses from the near to the mid-infrared range. The work is being funded by the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Advanced Photon Sources CAPS with a total of 250,000 euros at both institutes.

The perfect foam is not only important for drinks such as beer and coffee or for the airy consistency of chocolate mousse at Christmas dinner. Foam is also used for insulation in cooling devices or batteries as well as in seat cushions, prostheses or shoe soles. From December 3 to 5, 2024, the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM will be presenting its contributions to the future of foam production for lightweight construction at Foam Expo Europe 2024 in Stuttgart.

At the Kaiserslautern site, the topic of »Multi-Objective Optimization« is particularly strong in research and application. This is demonstrated, for example, by the research training group »Mathematics of Interdisciplinary Multi-Objective Optimization (MIMO)« at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and the successful industrial projects of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in this area.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM will be presenting innovative solutions for parallel programming and Artificial Intelligence at Supercomputing 2024 in Atlanta, USA, from November 18 to 22. Two Fraunhofer spin-offs will participate at the joint booth 3115 in Hall B: ThinkparQ will present its roadmap for the parallel file system BeeGFS. The spin-off UNEEC Systems will be demonstrating the STX processor and its system approach to energy efficient and cost effective compute infrastructure. The STX processor accelerates HPC simulations while keeping programming simple. Researchers from the division »High Performance Computing« will share new developments in parallel programming and other AI solutions for High Performance Computing.

The EIOPA (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority) published a consultation paper on »Value for Money« in October 2024. As a scientific partner, the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM has helped to evaluate insurance products and thus support supervisory authorities in measuring and monitoring the benefits for customers.