Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM

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In the departments of the »Processes and Materials« division, we are increasingly developing our own powerful software tools – on the one hand, to pass this software on to entrepreneurs, and on the other hand, to significantly bundle existing expertise and thus operate successfully in various industries.

Currently, the most important areas of focus are:

Spinning Processes and Nonwoven Production
Multiscale Mechanics
Structural Analysis and Topology Optimization
Transport in Porous Media
Complex Fluids and Multiphase Flows
Grid-Free Methods
Transport Networks and Radiation

Spinning Processes and Nonwoven Production

VISPI – Simulate Virtual Spinning

VISPI is a simulation software with which a we map and analyse a wide variety of spinning processes.

FIDYST – Fiber Dynamics Simulation Tool

The simulation software FIDYST is a highly efficient software in order to simulate elastic fibers in turbulent fluid flows.

SURRO

We have developed special methods and tools to support the design and control of several key aspects of nonwovens production processes with efficient simulations.

Multiscale Mechanics

FeelMath – Analysis Tool for Micro-Structures

FeelMath is a fast and easy to use analysis tool for micro-structures given by 3D images (tomography) or virtual material structures (i.e. GeoDict)

TexMath – Simulation of Knitted, Woven and Warp Knitted Fabrics

The software is used for the modeling and simulation of fiber structures and technical textiles.

FiberMath – Realistic Microstructures for Fiber-Reinforced Plastics

Efficient Material Characterization Through Virtual Testing

Structural Analysis and Topology Optimization

MAVI

Modular Algorithms for Volume Images: MAVI is a software system focusing on processing and analysis of the complex geometry of microstructures.

cashocs

Our sophisticated software package cashocs solves shape optimisation problems by providing efficient support for industrial problems and running new design proposals.

Programmable Materials

In various projects in the field »Programmable Materials«, we are researching on how we can give materials new functionalities.

Transport in Porous Media

BEST – Battery and Electrochemistry Simulation Tool

BEST is a software environment for physics-based, three-dimensional simulation of lithium-ion batteries.

PoreChem

The software package simulates three-dimensional flow, transport and reactions of chemically reactive solutes in dissolved porous median.

FiltEST – Filter Element Simulation Tool

More than ten years of expertise and experience in filtration modeling and simulation have flown into the newly developed Filter Element Simulation Tool (FiltEST).

Complex Fluids and Multiphase Flows

FLUID – Simulation software for complex fluids

FLUID is a software for simulations with highly complex non-Newtonian multi-phase fluid phenomena.

FOAM – Simulation of PU Foams

Our FOAM solver simulates the expansion process of PU foams in any given geometry and offers the possibility to calculate the foam formation process.

GRAIN – Granular and Bulk Flow Simulation

GRAIN is an infrastructure for the design of products and processes which involve granular media.

Grid-Free Methods

MESHFREE

MESHFREE is a software tool in fluid and continuum mechancis developed in cooperation with Fraunhofer SCAI. It combines the expertise in meshfree simulations and scientific computations of the two institutes.

STRING

In cooperation with delta h Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH the software STRING enables an intuitive visualization of steady-state and transient three-dimensional velocity fields.

Transport Networks and Radiation

AD Net Heat

The district heating of the future requires new control strategies and communicative concepts. With our innovative software tool »AD Net Heat«, we dynamically simulates the state of heating networks and optimize their operation in real time.

RADEFF – Effective Simulation of Radiative Transfer

We developed a numerical approximation method for the solution of the radiative transfer equation.

LODTa – Light Optimal Distribution Tool

We developed an algorithm that computates the design of the lens which realizes a required light distribution on the screen for a given light source

Contact Press / Media

Dr. Dietmar Hietel

Head of Division »Processes and Materials«

Fraunhofer-Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik ITWM
Fraunhofer-Platz 1
67663 Kaiserslautern

Phone +49 631 31600-4627

Fax +49 631 31600-5627

Send email
dietmar.hietel@itwm.fraunhofer.de
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Contact Press / Media

Dr. Konrad Steiner

Head of Division »Processes and Materials« and Head of Department »Flow Processes«

Fraunhofer-Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik ITWM
Fraunhofer-Platz 1
67663 Kaiserslautern

Phone +49 631 31600-4342

Fax +49 631 31600-5342

Send email
konrad.steiner@itwm.fraunhofer.de
more info