Center for Industrial Research & Applied Computational Simulation

In January 2005, Innovation Norway awarded BSSI an incubator stipend to create a Center that would consolidate and focus BSSI's activities and expertise in the areas of modeling and computational simulation specifically addressing simulation using boundary integral methods . The Center is called CIRACS, which stands for Center for Industrial Research and Applied Computational Simulation, and it is located in BSSI's offices in Bergen, from where the company's international activities are driven. Below is an overview of the organization of the Center.

Industrial Research

• Boundary Integral Methods
• Moving boundary problems
• Non-homogeneous materials

Applied Computational Simulation

• 3D Electric Field Computations (For simulating electrochemical processes, such as electrocoating of automobiles, corrosion protection in ships and offshore structures)
• 3D Thermal Analysis (For simulating temperature distribution in oven baking)
• 3D Fracture Analysis and Prediction (For predicting fractures)
• Inverse Analysis (Modelling of non-destructive testing)
• Composites (3D analysis of fibre-reinforced composites)
• Optimization

Data Analysis & Management

• Visualization
• Databases
• Web services

Parallel Computing

Shared memory multi-processor (SMP) architectures

Cluster architectures using MPI (The Center has two reconfigurable 32-bit / 64-bit Clusters of AMD and Intel workstations)

Management Consulting & Analysis

• Calibration
• Advice
• Best practices
• Due diligence
• Project management

Acknowledgments

Partial Funding for this work is gratefully acknowledged from Innovation Norway ( http://www.invanor.no) and the Norwegian Research Council.