TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaborative computational steering
T2 - Principles and application in HVAC layout
AU - Borrmann, André
AU - Wenisch, Petra
AU - Van Treeck, Christoph
AU - Rank, Ernst
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - In this article, we present the Collaborative Computational Steering platform CoCoS. It enables geographically distributed engineers to use steerable simulation and analysis facilities during a collaborative design session. The environment is based on a distributed component architecture composed of a central Collaboration Server, an arbitrary number of Simulation Servers and an arbitrary number of clients. The Collaboration Server manages the shared model consisting of a three-dimensional geometric model and additional semantic data like boundary conditions for a certain simulation. The Simulation Servers provide simulation and analysis data for the engineer's front-end application and can be connected to the platform on demand. By using the explicitly available meta-model, the shared model can be dynamically adapted to the needs of simulation facilities that are not known a-priori. Exemplarily, the utilization of the CoCoS platform for the collaborative layout of a Heating Ventilation Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system is shown. In this context, the implementation and integration of an interactively steerable fluid simulator based on the lattice-Boltzmann method is discussed. This simulator allows obstacles to be inserted into the fluid domain, relocated, and removed from it during the simulation process and the impact of these modifications on the fluid flow to be seen immediately.
AB - In this article, we present the Collaborative Computational Steering platform CoCoS. It enables geographically distributed engineers to use steerable simulation and analysis facilities during a collaborative design session. The environment is based on a distributed component architecture composed of a central Collaboration Server, an arbitrary number of Simulation Servers and an arbitrary number of clients. The Collaboration Server manages the shared model consisting of a three-dimensional geometric model and additional semantic data like boundary conditions for a certain simulation. The Simulation Servers provide simulation and analysis data for the engineer's front-end application and can be connected to the platform on demand. By using the explicitly available meta-model, the shared model can be dynamically adapted to the needs of simulation facilities that are not known a-priori. Exemplarily, the utilization of the CoCoS platform for the collaborative layout of a Heating Ventilation Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system is shown. In this context, the implementation and integration of an interactively steerable fluid simulator based on the lattice-Boltzmann method is discussed. This simulator allows obstacles to be inserted into the fluid domain, relocated, and removed from it during the simulation process and the impact of these modifications on the fluid flow to be seen immediately.
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U2 - 10.3233/ica-2006-13405
DO - 10.3233/ica-2006-13405
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33749348166
SN - 1069-2509
VL - 13
SP - 361
EP - 376
JO - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
JF - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
IS - 4
ER -