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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 & H2020 Projects

  • Program: FETHPC-02

  • Project acronym: ExaQute

  • Project title: Exascale quantification of uncertainties for technology and science simulation

  • Duration: June 2018 - April 2019

  • Coordinator: CIMNE (Spain)

  • Other partners: BSC (Spain), TUM (Germany), IT4 (Czech Republic), EPFL (Switzerland), UPC (Spain), Structure (Germany).

  • Abstract: The ExaQUte project aims at constructing a framework to enable Uncertainty Quantification and Optimization Under Uncertainties in complex engineering problems, using computational simulations on Exascale systems. The description of complex geometries will be possible by employing embedded methods, which guarantee a high robustness in the mesh generation and adaptation steps, while allowing preserving the exact geometry representation. The efficient exploitation of the Exascale system will be addressed by combining State-of-the-Art dynamic task-scheduling technologies with space-time accelerated solution methods, where parallelism is harvested both in space and time. The methods and tools developed in ExaQUte will be applicable to many fields of science and technology. The chosen application focuses on wind engineering, a field of notable industrial interest for which currently no reliable solution exist.

Collaborations in European Programs, Except FP7 & H2020

  • Program: OCEANEraNET

  • Project acronym: MIDWEST

  • Project title: Multi-fIdelity Decision making tools for Wave Energy SysTems

  • Duration: December 2015 - April 2019

  • Coordinator: Mario Ricchiuto

  • Other partners: Chalmers University (Sweden), DTU Compute (Denmark), IST Lisbon (Portugal)

  • Abstract: Wave energy converters (WECs) design currently relies on low-fidelity linear hydrodynamic models. While these models disregard fundamental nonlinear and viscous effects - which might lead provide sub-optimal designs - high-fidelity fully nonlinear Navier-Stokes models are prohibitively computational expensive for optimization. The MIDWEST project will provide an efficient asymptotic nonlinear finite element model of intermediate fidelity, investigate the required fidelity level to resolve a given engineering output, construct a multi-fidelity optimization platform using surrogate models blending different fidelity models. Combining know how in wave energy technology, finite element modelling, high performance computing, and robust optimization, the MIDWEST project will provide a new efficient decision making framework for the design of the next generation WECs which will benefit all industrial actors of the European wave energy sector.