PRESENTATION: Computational mechanics simulations of industrial problems using GPUs – Prof. Nicolin Govender – 7.11.2024 at 16.00, FCCIA, room I-3

Prof. Nicolin Govender is a Senior Research Software Engineer at University College
London’s Advanced Research Computing department. He is a visiting professor at CERN
(ATLAS) through the University of Johannesburg. He has published more than 100
papers on DEM, GPU Computing and High Energy Physics and is a world renowned
expert in the application of GPU computing to computational mechanics and its use in
Digital Twins for solving industrial problems.

In this talk progress towards physics based simulations of granular materials (DEM) using GPU computing will be presented along with a technical discussion on the art of utilizing GPUs. There will be a strong focus on complex shaped particles using polyhedra along with particle based methods for fluids and its use in solving large scale industrial problems.