In early 1984, the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) opened its doors, established by the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC) at the initiative of Manuel Castellet,
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Barcelona. The Future of Urban Transport: The On-Demand Bus Service in Barcelona
Addressing the challenge of providing a sustainable public transport service that optimises available resources, and simultaneously offers the best possible service to users is a
Read moreBarcelona. Capturing environmental contaminants in Barcelona
The Industrial Mathematics Research Group at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica has slowly been evolving into the Environmental Mathematics Research Group and grown to encompass
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Kaiserslautern. Happy Easter from Kaiserslautern!
Happy Easter from Kaiserslautern! Why is Easter NOW and why is it on a different date every year? There’s mathematics behind it: For a long time, it took a lot of effort to calculate. Astronomers had to calculate the phases of the moon in advance and scholars wrote entire books on how to calculate the date of Easter. The famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss found this procedure far too complicated and created a formula consisting of just a few equations – the Gaussian Easter formula. Even today, we can still use this formula, which is over two hundred years old, to calculate the date of Easter every year.
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Kaiserslautern. Simulation of the Production of Lithium-Ion Cells and Battery Packs
Large battery factories are being built in many places in Europe to meet the demand for cells. As this production is very space-, energy- and time-intensive, it is important to design the production processes as efficiently as possible without negatively affecting the product properties of the battery cells. This is where our researchers at the Fraunhofer ITWM provide support with physical simulation models for specific process steps.
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Kaiserslautern. Software Solution »AD-Net District Heating« – Dynamic Simulation for the Networks of Tomorrow
The district heating of the future as a central component of a sustainable energy system requires new control concepts as well as communicative approaches. With our software tool »AD-Net District Heating«, we at the Fraunhofer ITWM dynamically simulate and optimize the operation of heating networks in real time.
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Kaiserslautern. EMMA4Drive – Dynamic Human Model for More Safety and Comfort in Autonomous Vehicles
With the EMMA4Drive project, our researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM are further developing the dynamic human model EMMA for use in fully or partially autonomous driving vehicles.
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Kaiserslautern. Scaled Boundary Isogeometric Analysis
When delving into numerical analysis, particularly in the realm of Finite Elements (FEs), one encounters several difficulties and hurdles associated with the central step of discretizing the underlying problem. In a two-phase interdisciplinary DFG research project, a robust numerical method was therefore developed that combines Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) and the Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method (SB-FEM) for modelling complex geometries in linear and non-linear solid mechanics.
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Kaiserslautern. Improved Fiber Distribution Increases Thermal Insulation
Together with four partners, our researchers at the Fraunhofer ITWM are investigating the effects of fibre distribution in wood-based insulation materials in the project »Oho: Optimization of Wood-Fibre Based Insulation Materials« with the aim of improving thermal insulation. The aim is to achieve a thermal conductivity of less than 35 W/K. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
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Kaiserslautern. Lightweight Construction and Ecological Design for Electric Vehicles
ALMA Project’s novel lightweight, efficient and sustainable Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) structure for passenger cars promises major strides in the EU’s green road transport transition away from fossil fuels. The ALMA BEV body-in-white (BiW) is 22 percent lighter than the baseline design, resulting in a 24 percent reduction in carbon emissions for the BiW and a corresponding 9 percent reduction for the entire car over the vehicle’s entire service life.
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