August 26, 2008
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Ohio Supercomputer Center
Gaining access to supercomputing resources, coupled with portals that link to complex modeling packages, provides companies with a competitive edge by saving money through virtual prototypes by:
Polymer Composite Simulation (PCS) Education Edition is a new web-based environment co-developed by the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) and ACES of Columbus to provide an easy-to-use portal for computational analysis of polymer composite properties. Designed to give an intuitive interface for predicting the properties of polymer-based short fiber composite materials containing discrete fibers, the portal allows the user to study the influence of composite microstructure on a composite?s rigidity and strength for typical product shapes.
The computational analysis is performed using the COMSOL Multiphysics modeling package on OSC?s supercomputing resources. Engineers can study the properties for a range of polymer matrix materials and fiber characteristics, as well as product geometries to evaluate new consumer product designs prior to manufacturing.
The workshop will be presented through a combination of lectures and hands-on lab sessions. Its focus will be performing composite analysis via the portal. Participants will receive a brief introduction to the technical details of the underlying COMSOL Multiphysics model and gain experience with the portal capabilities by running several practical examples and investigating the results.