Research Initiative International Centre for
Computational Engineering

The research initiative International Centre for Computational Engineering was established by the governing body of the Leibniz Universität Hannover on March 14th, 2007.

Description of the Research Project

The continually increasing complexity of industrial development processes nowadays requires international and interdisciplinary cooperation. Thus the demand for well-trained experts who are familiar with a large number of different specialist areas from engineering, mathematics and informatics is also increasing.

It is natural that the procedural methods with which engineers, mathematicians or computer scientists solve technical problems differ from each other. Due to the increasing requirement for interdisciplinary research it is therefore necessary to create common ‘languages’, tools and working environments. In order to achieve this there must be a communication centre in which each specialist area where, with reference to projects and training, the special knowledge peculiar to each specialist field comes together.

An essential point here is interdisciplinary training, which will enable students of applied science to obtain the ability to solve complex engineering problems through being taught knowledge from the various subject fields. At the beginning of the 21st century as a result of the globalisation of markets and the international orientation of large firms it is of decisive importance that global of thinking of young students and researchers should be supported. Here team spirit and communicative abilities will play an increasingly important role in the successful carrying out of a project.

The International Centre for Computational Engineering Sciences (ICCES) was established at the Leibniz Universität Hannover in order to create the necessary communication platform. The task of the centre is to perform research and training at a high level in the field of computational engineering. The focal point here lies in the training of students of engineering and natural science in the field of numeric simulation.

The common denominator of the research projects is ‘High Performance Computing’. The focal points here are: (1) numeric mathematics: adaptive spatial and temporal network generation and rapid equation solving, (2) computational science: object orientated methods and geometry description, (3) mechanics: contact mechanics and the theory of materials. The interdisciplinary cooperation of the working groups in Barcelona, Göteborg and Hannover is guaranteed by joint seminars which take place place regularly.

The focal point of the work at the ICCES is (1) the theory and numerics of partial current differential equations of linear, non-linear and associated problems and (2) the development of appropriate software and visualisation tools. This therefore represents a comprehensive spectrum of tasks in engineering science which are of industrial interest.

The technical applications, which can generally be described as inelastic time-dependent distortion, e.g. forming processes or associated problems in geoscience, have been chosen because of their complexity and their current importance. They are of great interest to industry and, due to the employment of the large number of methods which are necessary for their solution, they represent a scientific challenge.

• www.icces.uni-hannover.de
• www.grk615.uni-hannover.de

Participating Institutions

The Director of the ICCES is Prof. Dr-Ing. Peter Wriggers. The Deputy Director is Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Ernst Stephan.

Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Science

• Institute of Computer Science in Civil Engineering
• Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Environmental Physics in Civil Engineering
• Institute of Mechanics and Computational Mechanics
• Institute of Structural Analysis

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

• Institute of Electromagnetic Theory
• Institute of Man-Machine Communications

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics

• Institute of Applied Mathematics
• Institute of Meteorology and Climatology

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

• Insitute of Continuum Mechanics
• Institute of Metal Forming and Metal Forming Machines

Central Facilities

• Central Services Information Technology

International Partners

The key to a modern research centre with international horizons is having the right partner institutes. For this reason, the ICCES works in cooperation with the Chalmers Finite Element Center in Göteborg, as well as the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) in Barcelona.

Contact

Zentrum für Computergestützte Ingenieurwissenschaften / International Center for Computational Engineering Sciences (ICCES)

Leibniz Universität Hannover
Appelstraße 9a

D - 30167 Hannover

Tel. +49 511.762 - 3220
Fax +49 511.762 - 5496