When given a certain task, the aim is not only to comply with the requirements specified, but also to achieve - under the
given circumstances - the best possible outcome, which means searching for the otimum result.
S I M U L O P T provides solutions to all such problems by using
numerical simulation and optimisation methods. This technology, exploiting digital
computation, rapidly and safely produces results with high accuracy.
Simulation and optimisation can successfully be applied, not only in engineering, materials processing and
production engineering, but also in economic and industrial management (operations research) and in many
areas of research and development, e.g. in the natural sciences.
WHY COOPERATE WITH S I M U L O P T ?
The employment of simulation and optimisation systems, in module form, using existing, tested and readily applicable
program blocks, and in close cooperation between you - the client - and SIMULOPT,
guarantees time and cost savings and flexibility in performing all tasks.
WHAT SERVICES CAN SIMULOPT OFFER YOU ?
(Examples of tasks performed by the owner of SIMULOPT)
Environmental Protection:
Simulation studies of oil burners to determine the advantages and the disadvantages of different control concepts in
reducing environmental pollution;
simulation model of an oil burning apparatus and the impact of external and internal factors, development of
optimisation algorithms for a micro-processor aided maximum value control of this oil heating system;
programs to determine noise-minimal airport approach and take-off paths, dependent on the effects of wind direction on
sound propagation.
Banking, Economics and Industrial Management:
Computer aided determination of optimal portfolio arrangements;
programs to optimise liquidity management;
set-up of dynamic socio-economic models and their optimal control;
optimisation of foreign currency account management.
Aviation and Space Industry, Land and Marine Navigation Systems:
Calculation of minimal time interplanetary paths of space vehicles;
numerical determination of optimal control algorithms for the take-off and landing of a STOL (short take-off and landing)
aircraft;
model design, simulation and optimal control of an underwater tow system;
optimisation of aircraft missed approach operations under shear wind conditions;
computer aided determination of the time and location dependent angle of incidence of helicopter rotor blades to minimise
vibration;
simulation and optimisation of an electrical direction and stabilisation system for tanks;
multi-goal parameter optimisation of a flight control system;
optimal non-linear "observer" for tracking a re-entry vehicle in space;
simulation environment for the examination of INS/(D)GPS navigation systems during flight.
Automatic Control Technology, Precision Mechanics Industry:
Numerical optimal design of an active spring system for a magnetically suspended train;
creation of a software package for the simulation and parameter optimisation of a solenoid plunger magnetic
valve;
development of a non-linear "observer" with compensation filter for the alignment of navigation systems in moving
vehicles;
calculation of optimal dynamic filters.
Chemical Industry:
Simulation of the individual components of an ammonia production plant, definition of economic effectiveness
criteria and computer aided optimisation of the continuous operation of the plant;
extremum control (without mathematic model) of an industrial gas furnace;
computer aided identification of the parameters of a gas pipeline which characterise its operation.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND of SIMULOPT 's OWNER: Specialist in research and development within Germany and abroad (France, USA) in the areas mentioned above.
Academic and industrial background and experience:
Technical University of Stuttgart (Diploma in Electrical Engineering)
Laboratoire d’Automatique et de ses Applications Spatiales (L.A.A.S.) du C.N.R.S. in Toulouse, France (Ph. D.) and
Azote et Produits Chimiques, Toulouse, France (5 years)
NASA-Electronics Research Center in Cambridge / Massachusetts and NASA-Ames Research Center in Moffett Field / California
(2 years)
Institute of Automatic Control Engineering of the Technical University of Munich and Institute of Flight
Guidance and Control of the Technical University of Braunschweig ("Habilitation")
Honeywell Control Systems, Maintal near Frankfurt / Main (8 ½ years)
Engineering Office S I M U L O P T for Simulation and
Optimisation in Maintal (since 1991), lecturer at the Technical University of Braunschweig
S I M U L O P T Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. G. Jacob Fax / Tel. +49 / 61 81 / 49 56 23