GRK 853:  Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation of Engineering Applications

• Subject Area: Production Technology ; Construction Engineering and Architecture
• Term: from 2003 to 2005
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 273579

The use of numerical simulation techniques for more and more engineering areas becomes a cost-effective alternative to expensive, time and personnel consuming experimental investigations. In many industrial branches numerical simulation has already developed to a key technology. In spite of the progresses that have been achieved in recent years for many practical applications, which, moreover, permanently increase in complexity, a reliable simulation is still not possible. This can be caused either by the lack of theoretical foundations in modelling or by extremely high requirements concerning the computer capacities.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Michael Schäfer
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Hans Dieter Alber; Professor Dr. Markus Clemens; Professor Dr.-Ing. I. David; Professor Dr. Reinhard Farwig; Professor Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Gross; Professor Dr.-Ing. Friedrich Gruttmann; Professor Dr. Matthias Hieber; Professor Dr. Kolumban Hutter; Professor Dr.-Ing. Johannes Janicka; Professor Dr. Axel Klar; Professor Dr. Jens Lang; Professor Dr. Jürgen Lehn (†); Professor Dr. Günter Leugering; Professor Dr. Alexander Martin; Professor Dr.-Ing. Udo F. Meißner; Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Meynen; Professor Dr.-Ing. Martin Oberlack; Professor Dr. Ulrich Reif; Professor Dr.-Ing. Uwe Rüppel; Professor Dr. Amsini Sadiki; Professor Dr. Oskar von Stryk; Professor Dr.-Ing. Charalampos Tsakmakis; Professor Dr.-Ing. Thomas Weiland