Towards multi-domain knowledge transfer in engineering analyses and simulations based on virtual prototypes

摘要

The use of virtual prototypes in product development has been proliferating rapidly in the last two decades. New computational methods and tools have been developed to generate virtual prototypes for various engineering analysis, simulation and optimization tasks. Virtual prototypes can represent several aspects of products, including among others; geometric and structural properties, physical operations and behavior, and production, use and maintenance processes. The development of methods and tools is continuously expanding towards new application domains and users are getting more and more involved in testing virtual prototypes of products. Numerical computations are getting more accurate and reliable. Through the analyses and simulations of virtual prototypes, design engineers are now able to ensure that a product will possess exactly the desired functions, properties, behaviour, quality and cost.