Yearly Archive: 2026

Largest World Congress on Computational Mechanics in Munich

Last week, the combined 17^th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) and 10^th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS) was held at the ICM – International Congress Center Messe München. With more than 5,000 participants, it turned out to be the by far largest congress in the field of computational mechanics and computational methods in applied sciences and engineering to date, attracting representatives from academia, government, and industry, encompassing all areas of engineering and science. Computational mechanics has become a cornerstone of modern scientific inquiry, driving solutions to some of the most advanced and complex challenges in engineering and beyond, and this enormous number of participants  emphasized how this field is indeed thriving.

AdCo Engineering^GW was substantially involved in the congress, in particular with two out of four congress chairs also representing our company, among others. Furthermore, we contributed a presentation on “A Multiscale-Multiphysics Computational Method for Thermo-Fluid-Structure Interaction (TFSI) and Thermal Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication (TEHL)” to the minisymposium on “Stabilized and Variational-Multiscale Methods for Fluid Mechanics”, one of the various minsymposia which exhibited the broad thematical spectrum of the congress.

The Maturity Paradox

There is still a substantial gap between using simulation in industry, on the one hand, and fully meeting the respective needs, on the other hand. This is one of the essential messages of the article entitled “The State of Composites Manufacturing Simulation” and authored by Jonathan Belnoue on the results of an industry survey in the recent issue No. 2/2026 of the magazine “Benchmark”, the international magazine for engineering designers and analysts by NAFEMS. NAFEMS is the international association for the engineering modelling, analysis and simulation community, a not-for-profit organization established in 1983. Dr.-Ing. Volker Gravemeier, chief executive officer of AdCo Engineering^GW, is an active member of the NAFEMS Multiphysics Working Group (NAFEMS MWG).

While 60% of respondents to the survey use simulation, only 28% report that simulation fully meets their requirements. Three primary barrier categories are addressed in the article. Besides insufficient skills and knowledge as well as missing material and process data, as the third of those barriers, 35% of the respondents refer to solution quality as a barrier. In fact, those responses indicate that, as the author states, “available simulation approaches are inadequate in accuracy, reliability, or computational efficiency”. Moreover, 30% mentioned that, for their applications, adequate technical solutions do not even exist as yet, expressing that “current scientific understanding is insufficient to construct even approximative predictive models for certain processes”. While this survey particularly aimed at composites manufacturing simulation, it is very likely that surveying the status of simulation for other applications would yield quite similar results.

AdCo Engineering^GW has comprehensive expertise in predictive simulation of various challenging applications, in particular, complex multiphysics and multiscale applications. Based on this expertise, we enable our clients to harness the full potential simulations can offer.

Our Presentation at 25th International Colloquium Tribology

We are glad to announce that we will contribute to the 25th International Colloquium Tribology, which will be held in Ostfildern/Stuttgart from January 27 through January 29. Within the session on “Digital Transformation and Computational Tools in Tribology” of the colloquium, we will present on “Advanced Multiphysics Computational Methods for High-Performance Computing of Tribosystems”. The presentation will be at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 27. More details can be found in the colloquium program, which is available here.