Tools for Parallel Simulation and Visualization of Flexible Multibody Systems
Simulation techniques for multibody systems become more and more important for the industry.
Larger systems, more accurate models (e.g., descibing flexible deforamtion effects), process
modelling (e.g., material removal),etc. change the characteristics of the problem and affect
how the application should be a parallelized and methods for solving the equations
numerically. The research involves developing new parallel algorithms for efficient solution
of flexible multibody systems problems. The work will be done in the context of the multibody
simulation tool BEAST.
The next important problem to be studied in this project is how to visualize and manipulate different
types of data related to surfaces of bodies, including bodies with flexible geometries. What is
meaningful from the engineer point to view? What are limitations in the current man-machine
interface? How should the huge amount of data that is created in real applications be handled?
How should sufficient speed and accuracy be achieved when displaying such data?
During the last year the work was focused on the new models development and basic implementation
of the framework. Having the models and the framework operational we can study the important
bottlenecks of the system, try to find new way to run simulation in parallel and make the
visualization run faster.
Graduate students: Iakov Nakhimovski and Alexander
Siemers.
Supervisors: Dag Fritzson, Vadim Engelson.
