Table Of ContentModeling and Simulation
Challenges and Best Practices for
Industry
Modeling and Simulation
Challenges and Best Practices for
Industry
Guillaume Dubois
Contents
This book was previously published in French as La simulation numérique: Enjeux et bonnes pratiques pour
l’industrie (Numerical simulation: Challenges and best practices for industry) by Dunod, Malakoff, France.
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“ Be the change that you wish to see in this world.”
—Gandhi
Foreword
Numerical modeling and simulation have revolutionized the industry over
the past few decades. It has allowed us to design more complex systems and
predict behaviors without field testing. Today’s trucks, cars, and planes are
higher performing and produced faster at a lower cost. However, numerical
simulation expansion and mutations are still evolving at pace and have a
long way to go. Great opportunities for numerous industries are still to come.
My teams and I often have to address challenging questions that require
the use of numerical simulation. To go further, the scope of simulation, its
limitations, the expected impacts and benefits must be assessed. These are
questions that are top of the mind for any company that wants to remain
competitive and relevant in the future.
This book is accessible and holistic enough to be useful to different catego-
ries of readers, whether they are project leaders, engineers, or students. It
gives a good understanding of what simulation is and when it really should
be used. It further provides both technical and organizational best practices
to implement it. This book will be a strong contribution to the expansion and
adoption of simulation in the industry.
Martin Lundstedt,
President and CEO of Volvo Group
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Special Thanks
I thank, for proofreading or making detailed comments on this or that,
in alphabetical order: Alexis Beauvillain, Claire Casas, Jyster Crauser-
Delbourg, Laurent Di Valentin, Sébastien Dubois, Antoine Ferret, Manuel
Fontanier, Florent Fossé, Étienne Fradet, Éric Le Dantec, Ikramjit Narang,
Éric Noirtat, Hugues-Loup Robedat, Éric Suty, Manuel Tancrez; Éric Tomieto,
Benoît Trémeau, Yang Xu, and Alexandre Zann.
To Taylor & Francis, especially Cindy Renee Carelli, executive editor, and
Renee Nakash, editorial assistant, for their professionalism and the quality
of their work.
To Dunod for allowing me to publish this book abroad.
To Martin Lundstedt, for his Foreword and being a great leader.
To Dorothée Dorwood and Olivier Franceschi, the Traductorz, for the quality
of their translation and their great conviviality.
To Benoît Parmentier, whom fate took away violently and whom I wish could
have proofread this book, for training me when I was starting out.
To my parents, Chantal and Xavier, for their proofreading, their encourage-
ments, and their eternal support.
To my family, especially Cécile, Sébastien, Claire, Youri, Lucas, Julien,
Jeanine, Gérard, Martine, Séverine, Ivan, Geneviève, and Michel, for encour-
aging me and bringing me happy moments.
To Violette, for being inspiring.
To the Ethiopian farmers from 2000 years ago who discovered coffee and
enabled me to write this book within a few weeks, by night.
Finally, to Doug, the fictional engineer we follow in this book, who, although
he doesn’t exist, helped me a lot in my writing.
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