International Symposium on Engineering Analysis and Simulation:
Frontiers in FEM and CFD Practices
Event Type:Conference
Location: Bangalore,India
Date: January 11, 2007
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Recent years have witnessed exponential growth in the application
of Finite Element Methods (FEM) and Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD) by various industrial domains and these activities often
encounter situations wherein novice engineers with insufficient
knowledge of the physics of the structure routinely develop
computer aided models and deliver 'faulty' solutions. The Finite
Element Method has become a black box, with no provisioning for
diagnosis of abuses of the system. To address this issue, NAFEMS
has been taking several initiatives for many years in the following
domains
- Quality Assurance Procedures for Engineering Analysis and
Simulation
- Management of FEM /CFD Procedures Guidelines to Best Practice
- Quality System Supplement to International Standards Relating to
Analysis
This symposium was organised in association with experts from
NAFEMS with three primary objectives
- Enhancement in the safety and accuracy of FEM / CFD practices by
providing suitable benchmarking standards
- Dissemination of information on best practices an thereby mitigate
the errors associated with poor approximation
- Networking the national and international experts from industry,
academia, research laboratories and CAE software developers and
facilitate collaborations among them with ensuing positive impact
on productivity and quality of engineering design process.
 To date, several conferences / seminars have taken place
in India with a focus on one or more domain of analysis such
as heat transfer, dynamics, optimisation, multiphysics etc. In many
of these occasions these interactions are limited to the user
groups of particular software tool such as Ansys, Cosmos, Abaqus,
NASTRAN etc. For the first time in our country, this symposium
addressed analysis / simulation practices on a platform independent
of software and domain specificity. Hence the spin off results of
the symposium would have wide ranging impact ranging on the
activities of national aero space laboratories, ubiquitous
automotive industry, life saving bioengineering field, high
technology micro/smart systems to all important manufacturing
sector.
 This meeting was the first NAFEMS involvement in India, and it is
hoped that NAFEMS will now become more and more active in this area
in the very near future. NAFEMS is working closely with EDAF, the
Engineering Design and Analysis Forum, on expanding activities for
analysts within India.
For full details, visit EDAF, www.edafindia.org
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