18.03.2008
Newly established: Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart (ASCS)
Augmented Reality visualization of the airflow around a model of a car at HLRS (Copyright: ASCS)
Numerical simulation methods have become indispensable in the automotive industry. They are used in developing and optimizing products, aiding in the realisation of lighter and quieter vehicles, and in improving fuel economy and reducing emissions. A partnership of engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists is now strengthening and consolidating Baden-Württemberg’s leading position in numerical simulation for the automotive industry.
The founding members of the ASCS are Universität Stuttgart, the passenger car and heavy-goods vehicle manufacturer Daimler, the sports car specialist Porsche, the car and van manufacturer Opel, the Forschungsinstitut für Kraftfahrwesen und Fahrzeugmotoren Stuttgart (FKFS), the automotive industry supplier Karmann, the supercomputer specialist Cray, the software companies INTES, Altair Engineering, Abaqus Deutschland, DYNAmore and Engineous Software, and the Virtual Dimension Center Fellbach. Further renowned automotive manufacturers, suppliers, computer vendors and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have also announced their participation. The partners intend to co-operate closely in the pre-competitive sector, with the goal of reducing the time from the initial design to the finished product.
Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Science, Research and the Arts Professor Peter Frankenberg welcomed the creation of the ASCS as a new form of partnership between the scientific community and industry and a model with considerable potential. “KIT’s announced membership will further consolidate leading-edge automotive research in our state. The automotive industry faces major environmental and business-related challenges, and high-performance scientific computing is a key technology in addressing them. The national and international competitive position of Baden-Württemberg in research, technology and industry is thus being strengthened further.” The Baden-Württemberg Science Ministry and Universität Stuttgart have each provided €350,000 in initial financing for the ASCS.
More:
http://www.asc-stuttgart.de
