Database Workshops

The Integrated Multiphysics Design Database was launched last March 2009 to provide a computational tool for the general evaluation of uncertainties and a reference with useful validation guidelines for future products in the area of multidisciplinary design optimization. The database makes possible the evaluation of both the efficiency and the robustness of innovative software via comparison of existing computational and experimental data.The database will incorporate optimization test cases from a variety of areas including telecommunications, aerospace, energy, environmental engineering, biomechanics and medicine, and computational science. The database is hosted by the University of Jyväskylä in Finland with a mirror site at the University of Houston.

Two events, one upstream and other more downstream, are scheduled on to engage and involve the worldwide scientific and technological community. The Preparatory Database Workshop held on December 3rd and 4th, 2009, in Jyväskylä, Finland will be concerned with the presentation and analysis of academic optimization test cases. The second event which also will be held at the University of Jyväskylä is entitled the Industrial and Academic Database Workshop. This Workshop, held on March 10th–12th, 2010, will be concerned with the presentation and analysis of industrial as well as academic test cases.

The Preparatory Database Workshop will be run in conjunction with 10th Finnish Mechanics Days Conference. Industrial and Academic test cases will be presented during the spring of 2010 in conjunction with a Tekes DESIGN event entitled “Database Workshop for Multiphysics Software Validation”.