DENSO Partners with Sorbonne University to Accelerate FreeFEM Simulation and Streamline Industrial Product Manufacturing on Rescale

In 2017, DENSO's Heat Exchanger R&D Division selected Rescale and began to implement it, following necessary security checks and setting up their existing software licenses in a license server on Rescale ScaleX. DENSO’s engineering and IT teams leaned on the support of Rescale and its partners to arrange documentation to ensure compliance with the automotive industry association’s guidelines for the use of cloud services, as well as to develop the network and data security. The Heat Exchanger Development Division provided one hour of education to designers on Rescale ScaleX, with overseas members participating online. The system can be easily operated with a web browser, so once mastered, all development members are using it without any problems. In 2019, DENSO chose to pursue the use a culmination of many open-source software for large-scale parallel calculations and without licensing costs. The Heat Exchanger R&D Division collaborated with Dr. Atsushi Suzuki of Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Japan to conduct simulations using an open-source software for finite element method, FreeFEM, which is developed and maintained by the J.-L. Lions Laboratory at the Sorbonne University, France.