Battelle Ingenieurtechnik GmbH Düsseldorfer Straße 9 65760 Eschborn Germany
Telefax: +49 6196 936-199	Telephone: +49 6196 936-0

Company Profile

Battelle Ingenieurtechnik GmbH is an independent private company for contract research and development in Germany. With a staff of approximately 100 employees, Battelle serves industrial and government clients in the development, application and commercialization of new technologies. The key business areas are engineering and R&D services in process technology, energy technology, technical software and information systems. The scope of services comprises software development and application, engineering studies, consultancy, information processing, executing and management of experimental programs in large scale test facilities. Within process engineering, the emphasis is on CFD, structural mechanics, thermal analysis, safety technology and safety analysis.

     Battelle develops CFD programs and program components for the design and optimization of industrial processes and power plants. The software is marketed and installed at industrial end users (petroleum and glass industry, automobile industry, insulation material production) and safety authorities. Likewise, the programs are intensely utilized to provide consultancy and technical advice for industrial clients (chemical industry, energy production, aerospace, safety authorities, etc.).

     In the project BETES, parallel numerical methods are applied to industrial problems and parallel CFD methods are developed in cooperation with the Institut für Schiffbau of the University of Hamburg.

     Expertise exists both in the experimental and numerical investigation of complex flow in complicated geometries (including model development and verification), like flow with combustion and multi-phase flow. To limit computational time to acceptable quantities, parallel combustion and Lagrangian two-phase modules - based on a finite-volume method and domain decomposition - are presently developed. High numerical efficiency is documented both on parallel HPC and on networked computers.