SIMULIA EURONORTH Regional User Meeting 2026 - NORDICS - Agenda

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Montevideo 1+2

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM CEST Welcome

Registration | Advanced Structures Seminar

Montevideo 1+2

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM CEST

Welcome & Introduction | Advanced Structures Seminar

Montevideo 1+2

12:45 PM - 2:00 PM CEST

Materials

Material Modelling & BehaviourNeural networksDamping & Specialised Material DefinitionsUser Subroutines for Materials

Montevideo 1+2

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CEST

Mid-Afternoon Break

With light refreshments

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM CEST Breakout session

Mechanics

Discrete & Particle MethodsElements & Core MethodsFracture, Damage & FatigueContact and surface physicsProcess Simulation & Advanced Topics

Montevideo 1+2

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM CEST

Mid-Afternoon Break

With light refreshments

Montevideo 1+2

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM CEST

Multiphysics

Battery EngineeringUpscaling & Coupled PhysicsPerformanceSolvers & Performance

Montevideo 1&2

5:30 PM - 5:45 PM CEST Plenary

Closing Remarks

Roof top Bar "Above"

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM CEST

Drinks Reception

Roof top Bar "Above"

7:30 PM - 10:30 PM CEST

Evening Banquet

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Bergen Foyer

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM CEST

Registration

With light refreshments

Bergen 2+3

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM CEST Plenary

Welcome & SIMULIA CEO Opening Remarks

This session begins with a warm welcome to our community, followed by keynote remarks from the SIMULIA CEO.

Bergen 2+3

9:30 AM - 9:55 AM CEST Plenary

SIMULIA Brand Insights 2026

Last year, we celebrated twenty years of the SIMULIA brand, using the milestone as an opportunity to showcase our commitment to enhancing and expanding our simu...

Bergen 2+3

9:55 AM - 10:20 AM CEST Plenary

Customer Presentation | Finite Element Evaluation of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Effects on Surgical Incisions | Alit Putra, Mölnlycke Health Care

Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is widely used to support healing of surgical incisions, with reported clinical benefits including improved perfusion and...

Bergen 1

10:20 AM - 10:50 AM CEST

Mid-Morning Break & 3DEXPERIENCE Playground

With refreshments

Bergen 2+3

10:50 AM - 11:15 AM CEST Plenary

MODSIM ( +AI )– Enabling Transformation from Sequential to Concurrent Engineering

Exploring how the MODSIM paradigm is allowing customers from many industries to shift their engineering and product development process from sequential to concu...

Bergen 2+3

11:15 AM - 11:40 AM CEST Plenary

Customer Presentation | Modeling Yarn using Nonlinear Beam Elements in a Multibody Environment | Jan Schroeder, Technische Universität Dresden

High speed warp knitting represents a well-established method for textile production. Production speeds using highly elastic yarn are limited to 4400 rpm due to...

Bergen 2+3

11:40 AM - 12:05 PM CEST Plenary

UKAEA | Multi-Physics Simulation Solution For Fusion Applications – The Neutronics-Thermal-Structural Analysis Of A Breeding Blanket Module

Modelling the behaviour of fusion reactor components, equipment, and installations represents a key challenge for the fusion industry. Component behaviour is ve...

Bergen 1

12:05 PM - 1:05 PM CEST

Lunch & 3DEXPERIENCE Playground

Bergen 2+3

1:05 PM - 1:30 PM CEST Plenary

Customer Presentation | Enhancing Product Comfort and Fit Through Finite Element Simulation at Essity | Manuel Mendoza Vázquez & Ioan Danese, Essity AB

Essity is a global leader in hygiene and health, with products used by one billion people across 150 countries every day. Consumers’ perceptions of these produc...

Bergen 2+3

1:30 PM - 3:05 PM CEST Breakout session

Structures Technology Breakout

1:50 PM - 2:15 PM CEST Breakout session

Customer Presentation - To be announced!

2:15 PM - 2:40 PM CEST

Customer Presentation | Fatigue crack evaluation for antivibration components using Abaqus with the effective tensile stress criterion | Robert Luo, Trelleborg

Rubber isolators operate in a high-dynamic environment, and fatigue damage often occurs during service. Simulation of fatigue crack initiation and propagation i...

2:40 PM - 3:05 PM CEST

Customer Presentation | Not just a wind-up: Using Abaqus to show the best way to loosen a tight screw | Bob Johnson, Realistic Engineering Analysis Limited

At the 2022 UK Regional User Group Meeting in Manchester the author presented a detailed computer simulation of an M16 threaded connection which incorporated a...

Montevideo 1&2

1:30 PM - 3:05 PM CEST Breakout session

Electromagnetics Technology Breakout

1:40 PM - 2:40 PM CEST Breakout session

SIMULIA Electromagnetics 2026 Technology Update

This Tech Talk will highlight the best technology of CST Studio Suite and the Electromagnetics Engineer on 3DEXPERIENCE(R) Cloud. The updates will focus on the...

2:40 PM - 3:05 PM CEST Breakout session

Customer Presentation | Automated Design and Optimization of Phased Array Antennas Using CST Studio Suite and Python | Freysteinn Vidarsson, TERASi

We present a Python-based workflow for the automated design, simulation, and optimization of millimeter-wave phased array antennas in CST Studio Suite. Antenna...

Hong Kong 1+2

1:30 PM - 3:05 PM CEST Breakout session

Multibody System Dynamics & Motion Simulation Technology Breakout

1:40 PM - 2:20 PM CEST Breakout session

Multibody/Motion State of Technology and Motion Vertical Roles

Motion Roles provide a full spectrum of Multibody Dynamics capability on the 3DX platform. While the users can utilize the full CAD potential to create their mo...

2:20 PM - 3:05 PM CEST Breakout session

High Fidelity Electric Drive NVH Simulations with Simpack

The heart of an E-Drive powertrain is the power unit. This session will demonstrate Simpack’s capabilities to model and solve typical Electric Drive simulations...

Melbourne 1+2

1:30 PM - 3:05 PM CEST Breakout session

Fluids Technology Breakout

1:40 PM - 2:10 PM CEST Breakout session

SIMULIA Fluids Portfolio Update

SIMULIA offers a comprehensive Fluids portfolio that delivers hundreds of workflows to customers across industries. In this presentation, we’ll summarize highli...

2:10 PM - 2:40 PM CEST Breakout session

Accelerate Aerodynamics & Aeroacoustics with PowerFLOW on GPU

In today’s automotive industry, vehicle development teams have to meet strict deadlines and have limited resources to iterate and evolve the design and performa...

2:40 PM - 3:05 PM CEST Breakout session

Customer Presentation

Exhibition

3:05 PM - 3:35 PM CEST

Mid-Afternoon Break & 3DEXPERIENCE Playground

With refreshments

Bergen 2+3

3:35 PM - 4:50 PM CEST Breakout session

Continued | Structures Technology Breakout

3:35 PM - 4:00 PM CEST

Customer Presentation | Machine learning-accelerated cyclic plasticity simulations | Nasrin Talebi, Chalmers University of Technology

Finite element simulations involving many loading cycles with nonlinear material models can lead to high computational costs. In this work, we propose an approa...

4:00 PM - 4:25 PM CEST

Customer Presentation | Calculation of Reinforced Concrete Beams in Abaqus | Anton Magne Gjørven, Norconsult A.S.

The material model in Abaqus/Standard for concrete can be utilized during concrete design calculations or in back-calculation of damaged concrete structures in...

4:25 PM - 4:50 PM CEST

Customer Presentation | Calculation and Validation of Sloshing Frequencies in Complex Shaped Tanks Using an Acoustic-Structural Approach and a Eulerian Approach | Oliver Bracher, AtkinsRéalis

Liquid filled tanks can impose large hydrodynamic stresses on structures when exposed to seismic excitation. Accurately representing the dynamic behaviour of th...

Montevideo 1&2

3:35 PM - 4:50 PM CEST Breakout session

Continued | Electromagnetics Technology Breakout

3:35 PM - 4:00 PM CEST Breakout session

Keep cool! Electronics Cooling Simulation using CST Studio Suite

As electronics shrink in size and surge in power, efficient thermal management is crucial. This presentation explores how CST Studio Suite facilitates innovativ...

4:00 PM - 4:25 PM CEST

Modelling and Simulation of Phased Array Antenna based Systems

Full-wave analysis of antenna arrays in mobile base stations has gained traction in recent years. A virtual twin of an antenna array provides a comprehensive pe...

4:25 PM - 4:50 PM CEST Breakout session

Multi-Physics Simulation Solution For Fusion Applications – Structural Response of Thin Structures to Induced Electromagnetic Loads

The Industry Simulation Software for Fusion project aims to demonstrate the capability of existing simulation software on fusion relevant problems. Case Study 6...

Hong Kong 1+2

3:35 PM - 4:50 PM CEST Breakout session

Continued | Multibody System Dynamics & Motion Simulation Technology Breakout

3:35 PM - 4:50 PM CEST Breakout session

Simpack Automotive Database and Realtime Profiler

This session will present an overview of the Simpack Automotive Database (Simpack ADB). Simpack ADB allows for quick creation of full vehicle models which are h...

Melbourne 1+2

3:35 PM - 4:50 PM CEST Breakout session

Continued | Fluids Technology Breakout

3:35 PM - 4:00 PM CEST Breakout session

Multi-species and Multi-phase capabilities with PowerFLOW

This presentation is focused on the extended capabilities of the high fidelity PowerFLOW Lattice Boltzmann solver related to multi-species and multi-phase simul...

4:00 PM - 4:25 PM CEST Breakout session

Improved Fluid Dynamics Engineer on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

To keep up with growing competitive pressures and customer demands, designers and engineers must rapidly evaluate the performance of their product designs. A De...

4:25 PM - 4:50 PM CEST

Analysis of turbulent wakes with model reduction techniques

Road vehicles and their rotating wheels act as complex bluff bodies, generating highly turbulent wakes characterized by multi-scale vortex shedding with complex...

4:50 PM - 5:00 PM CEST

Closing remarks and end of Conference