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ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe to Fund Young Researchers
10/27/2011 - ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG will fund a group of young researchers from Ruhr University Bochum starting January 1, 2012. The computer scientists and mathematicians will carry out research jointly with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation over a period of six years.
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG will fund a group of young researchers from Ruhr University Bochum starting January 1, 2012. The computer scientists and mathematicians will carry out research jointly with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS) over a period of six years.
The goal of the research is to implement the materials models and simulations developed by ICAMS as efficiently as possible on high-performance computing systems. ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe is providing funds of 1.2 million euros for this work.
Before a material is put to use in industry, developers test its functions and response; in the future, this will be done increasingly with the aid of efficient computer simulations, according to ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe. Materials scientists, physicists, chemists, and engineers at ICAMS are developing models for this. They are building theoretical new materials from individual atoms and simulating how these materials would behave during processing and use.
To increase speed and efficiency, ICAMS intends to also use high-performance computer systems in the future. The “High Performance Computing in Materials Science” group to be funded by ThyssenKrupp, comprising one postdoctoral researcher and several research assistants, will investigate methods to enable materials to be developed and tested on high-performance systems. The ability to model materials on the computer and reliably predict their behavior in the real world would reduce the need for time- and cost-consuming trials and allow new materials to be brought to market more quickly, the company notes.
