The aim with UMIT Research Lab is to create an internationally recognized center of excellence in modeling, computational methods, infrastructure, software, simulation, visualization and its industrial applications.
UMIT Research Lab includes establishing a natural environment at Umeå University for multidisciplinary technological research, recruitment of new scientists and build new research teams, perform research and development in innovative projects in collaboration with the IT industry, basic industries and public sector.
Existing basic reasearch
UMIT Research Lab is built on existing basic research in the field of technical and scientific computing and the trends with increasing number of processors in each computer, the interconnection of computers using grid / cloud technology for virtual machines with high capacity and the trend of convergence of technologies and software for design, construction, computing, visualization and simulation. These trends create tremendous opportunities for solving difficult computational problems, develop new services and revolutionizing the computer-intensive research and development of today. But these opportunities are realized only when new methods and software are tailored for this. UMIT aims to be a leader in this development.
UMIT Research Lab will initially be populated by some 25 researchers and graduate students. Industry cooperation and innovation, is run in symbiosis with excellent basic research. Among the specialties are "Computaional design optimization", "Finite element methods for mechanical systems with complex geometries and flows", "Grid and Cloud Technology", "Interactive physics simulation and complex mechanical systems", "IT Management", "Parallel technical and scientific computing" and "Control and Automation".
Applied projects
Some recent applied projects are "Simulation of granular materials for optimized design and optimization of mineral pellet plants and wheel loaders", "Non-invasive moisture content determination in wood drying through modeling and simulation of electromagnetic wave interactions with biomaterials", "Migration of large-scale virtual machines", "Design, analysis and stabilization of periodic mechanical systems", "Simulation of fluids in ball-bearings".
The projects are run in collaboration with service companies, developers and suppliers of software, manufacturing companies and basic industry.
