German BMBF supports development of PDE black-box software at the University of KarlsruheKarlsruhe 17 April 2001 The German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) supports the further development and the testing of the FDEM (Finite Difference Element Method) program package with 570 000 DM over a two-years period. The FDEM package has been developed in the project group "Numerical Research for Supercomputers" at the computing center of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. FDEM is a black-box solver for arbitrary nonlinear systems of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) as they occur in the numerical simulation of all types of engineering problems. It uses a finite difference method of high order on an unstructured finite element mesh, presently on a fixed domain.
The development for a variable domain like the interior of a reciprocating engine is supported by the BMBF. Also supported is the testing of the FDEM package together with industry partners (ABB, Bosch, Freudenberg, IWK) to solve actual industrial simulation problems that cannot be solved by the usual standard packages. Moreover, the institute for metal forming (IFU) of the University of Stuttgart is supported to deliver the material parameters for the simulation of the manufacturing of metal bellows.
The FDEM program package that includes the iterative linear solver package
LINSOL is fully parallelized for distributed memory parallel computers and thus
permits the efficient use of large supercomputers. The goal of the FDEM-project
is the faster development of better products by improved numerical simulation.
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