Projects and Partners

 

Automotive

We use our tool in many areas of vehicle development and simulate, for example, water crossing of a car, filling of a fuel tank or return valves.

 

Hydro Power

In this field of application, we are currently engaged in impulse type turbines, so-called Pelton turbines. MESHFREE is very suitable for modeling fluid flow phenomena around turbines for a variety of reasons.

 

Manufacturing Engineering

With our software tool, we can simulate the process of machining, in which a piece of raw material is cut into a desired final shape and size by a controlled material-removal process.

 

Chemical Engineering

Our software tool can be used for stirring and mixing processes.

 

Natural Hazards

We use our expertise and simulation experience to develop methods, which assist in emergencies and catastrophes like the simulation of floating bridge elements or avalanches.

 

Food Industry

MESHFREE is particularly suitable for the food industry, as kneading or stirring processes as well as the baking process or foam formation can be simulated particularly well.

 

General Projects

We can simulate the flow through flexible pipes, like blood flowing through veins.

Partners

The following partners work with us among others:

Industrial

  • Audi AG
  • Bertrandt AG
  • delta h Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
  • ESI Group
  • General Dynamics European Land Systems – Germany GmbH
  • Hilite Germany GmbH
  • IAV GmbH
  • Plastic Omnium Auto Inergy Belgium
  • Porsche AG
  • Volkswagen AG
  • Voith Hydro Holding GmbH & Co. KG

Research Institutes

  • Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW)
  • Austrian torrent and avalanche control (Wildbach- und Lawinenverbauung (WLV))
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV

 

Academic

  • TU Berlin
  • University of Bremen (Universität Bremen)
  • University of Innsbruck (Universität Innsbruck)
  • University of Kaiserslautern (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern)
  • University of Kassel (Universität Kassel)
  • University of Luxembourg

 

Public Funding

Our work has been partially funded by the following agencies/programs:

  • Central Innovation Programme SME (Zentrales Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand, ZIM)
  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF)
  • German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen, AiF)
  • German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)