13 PhD positions + post-docs available end of 2011 (Subject to successful negotiations)

Salary : €37,000 per annum for Ph.D. students (Early Stage Researchers Marie Curie Fellows) 

“Integrating Numerical Simulation and Geometric Design Technology (INSIST)” Leader: Prof. Timon Rabczuk, Weimar Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN)
Call: FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN

The objective of our proposed research is the development and implementation of the next generation
design/simulation methods. The key outcome of this research is a system/methodology that allows the
analysis, simulation and design of engineering products in a more efficient way, reducing costs and offering
the unique opportunity for European CAD and CAE companies being ranked in first place. This
project aims to extend the IA concept of Hughes and co-workers who focused on the unification of CAD and
CAE
whereas we aim to generalize this idea to unify pre-processing (in
general) and analysis; in this sense all our methods are isogeometric
since they exploit the shape functions to discretize the design model
also in
the context of numerical analysis (the simulation model). Another main advantage of the proposed
generalized isogeometric analysis is its wide applicability. This requires a strong collaboration between
universities and companies, which is reflected in the composition of our team.
The research programme is structured into 4 main sub-programmes addressing the most urgent issues in the
generation and development of efficient design and simulation models:
• Programme A: CAD Feature Processing (2 projects).
• Programme B: Pre-Processing and Mesh generation (4 projects).
• Programme C: Numerical Analysis/CAE (6 projects).
• Programme M: Voxel based analysis (1 project).

******

Partners
Universities
Coordinator: Weimar (Rabczuk)
Cardiff (Bordas, Kerfriden, Kulasegaram, Simpson)
Cardiff (Martin, Langbein)
Johannes Kepler University (Juettler)
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Rodenas, Giner, Tur)
Industrial
Cenaero (Duflot)
InuTech (Vogel)
Simpleware (Young)

Associated partners
Universities
University of California-San Diego (Bazilevs)
Carnegie Mellon University (Zhang)
Industrial
Transcendata (Butlin)
Numerical Geometry Ltd (Sabin)

*****