The Simulation Based Engineering & Sciences Magazine Year 17 n°1 Newsletter Spring 2020 UsingUsing personalizedpersonalized biomedicalbiomedical engineeringengineering toto improveimprove patientpatient treatmenttreatment Introducing Skippy: an Improving design shape Investigating wind-turbine athletic monopedal robot, using adjoint solutions and structural behavior under designed for a repertoire of surface morphing icing conditions behaviors EDITOR’S NOTE Flash The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is one of the leading organizations the democratization of technology and the diffusion of SBES. for applied research in Europe, with an annual research budget Knowledge and experience in the use and application of these totaling 2.3 billion euros. Its public mandate is to play a central techniques will clearly become more sought after, while data role within the German innovation system, in applied research and management and data security will obviously also play a pivotal knowledge and technology transfer. It works to foster cooperation role here, as the Fraunhofer publication acknowledges. and institutional networking between science and industry. In mid- 2017, it formed its first non-technological group, the Fraunhofer Another key trend Fraunhofer identifies is that innovation will focus Group for Innovation Research, to focus on socio-economic and on integrated solutions in response to customer demand and socio-technical research. At the end of 2018, the group published will require the participation of customers, partners, suppliers, a document1 called “Understanding Change – Shaping the Future: collaborators and other players. Due to the complexity of this, Impulses for the Future of Innovation” as food for thought for the business models will need to be reengineered and the requirement future of innovation, which identifies five key opportunities for to create value through innovation will drive essential reliance on innovation by 2030 that also highlight related challenges to be a wide range of partner service providers. This represents a key addressed by industry and society today to succeed and thrive into opportunity for SBES professionals since the simulation of diverse the future. business processes and alternative business models can provide fundamental support in this undertaking. While the publication is aimed at the German market, it is a thought provoking read for global business leaders Digitally supported decision-making and creativity are clearly and strategists. I wish to draw specific attention to a destined to become important keystones of the future of business few points of most interest to those of us in SBES. and industry – particularly to address issues of sustainable development and meet the deep societal challenges that the Firstly, there is the prediction that innovation will passage of the coronavirus has thrown into stark evidence. be a fully digitized process making massive use of simulation and artificial intelligence algorithms This issue of the magazine contains numerous articles that (forecast by then to be far more developed demonstrate various examples of digitally supported decision and robust than today and largely free of data making, in product, technical and research-oriented environments. interpretation errors and anomalies), requiring My hope is that it provides food for creative and strategic reflection R&D departments to become integration at this critical moment in the world’s history. and coordination centers for complex innovation networks and where May we all evolve and succeed as we strive to collectively respond the human contribution will take to the challenges of this hopefully soon-to-be post-Coronavirus the form of radical innovations world. achieved by making connections between solutions, and Stefano Odorizzi, supported by more simulation Editor in chief and testing. For those of us immersed in the simulation-based sciences, this is good [1] Fraunhofer Group for Innovation Research (Ed.) (2018): Understanding Change – Shaping the Future. Impulses for the Future of Innovation. Stuttgart. Available news and should stimulate online at http://publica.fraunhofer.de/dokumente/N-509887.html us to greater efforts in Newsletter - Spring 2020 3 CONTENTS Contents CFX Berlin’s TwinMesh enables 25 standardized design for new rotary lobe pumps Case Studies by Vogelsang GmbH & Co. KG CFD study of a Pelton turbine Conduct fatigue checks directly 6 runner 26 in Ansys Mechanical using SDC Verifier by Zeco by SDC Verifier Using personalized biomedical Investigating wind-turbine 10 engineering to improve patient 30 structural behavior under icing treatment conditions by Frankfurt University of by Savaria Institute of Technology Applied Sciences Improving design shape using Aerodynamics Simulations with 14 adjoint solutions and surface 34 Ansys CFX and Fluent in the morphing UberCloud by Fluid4Engineering by UberCloud Innovative and effective handling Geometric modeling for CAE 17 and transport of sensitive 38 developers equipment for the civil and by C3D Labs defense industries by Powerflex Introducing Skippy: an athletic CFD and FEM enable analysis 18 monopedal robot, designed for a 42 of wind effect on photovoltaic repertoire of behaviors plants by Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia by Ingeciber AI saves VW 600 hours of crash Perfecting the manufacture of 22 simulation time 44 pressurized gas vessels using ESTECO optimization driven by payerconsulting GmbH design technology by ESTECO 4 Newsletter - Spring 2020 CONTENTS Newsletter EnginSoft Interviews Year 17 n°1 - Spring 2020 To receive a free copy of the next EnginSoft Newsletters, please contact The scope of and potential for Italy’s role in European our Marketing office at: [email protected] 46 research All pictures are protected by copyright. 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