University of Cooperative Education - Mosbach
The University of Cooperative Education in Mosbach was founded in 1980. It started with 18 students in the department of Management in Industry. In the meantime, the University of Cooperative Education in Mosbach has extended to 18 departments with 2,000 students. More than 800 companies from Baden-Württemberg as well as other German states cooperate with the University of Cooperative Education in Mosbach. The University of Cooperative Education in Mosbach disposes of a computer lab, a CAD/CAM-laboratory and labs for Electrical Engineering, Wood Technology, Plastics Engineering, Virtual Engineering, Digital Media Design and Marketing, as well as numerous Internet working places. The students learn in small groups of up to 30 participants. The lectures are held in the style of seminars with discussions, group work and personal contact between students and faculty members. In cooperation with companies, excursions are organized in the different departments.
Strong Coupling in FSI / Coupling of Thermal Modelling Tools with CFD-Codes
The University of Cooperative Education, Department of Virtual Engineering is working on fluid-structure interaction for bio-medical applications as well as on the coupling of thermal modelling tools with CFD-codes.
FSI: Especially in bio-medical applications we have to deal with densities of fluid and structure having the same order of magnitude. This leads to instabilities if a loose coupling, i.e. one coupling per time step, is used. To overcome this problem, an iterative coupling procedure between the FE-Code Abaqus and the CFD-Code FLUENT was established by extending the coupling procedure offered by MpCCI. The coupling process is controlled by user-defined subroutines in FLUENT.
The procedure is used to model the fluid-structure interaction in abdominal aortic aneurysms to predict critical parameters which could lead to a rupture of the aneurysm.
Coupling thermal modelling tools with CFD-code: MpCCI is used to couple the CFD-code FLUENT with the radiation modelling tool RadTherm. The coupling is used for automotive applications, i.e. flow in the cabin and underhood flow.
The simulation leads to a prediction of flow and temperature field including radiation effects.
Links to related Projects and Sites
Information and papers can be found on the webpage
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We want to thank the federal ministery of education and research (BMBF) for financial support of the aneurysm project.
Project Partners
University of Cooperative Education
Virtual Engineering
Lohrtalweg 10
74821 Mosbach, GERMANY
janoske@ba-mosbach.de
Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBME)
The CBME was founded as a platform for a closer collaboration of engineers, biologists and medical scientists. The members are specialist in radiology, heart and vascular surgery as well as engineers with a focus on the modelling of bio-medical processes.
University of Karlsruhe
Institute for Fluid Dynamics
MpCCI is developed and distributed by Fraunhofer-Institute SCAI.