Cloud-based simulation of flows within complex fluids

Ioniqa, a Dutch SME, specialises in the development of Magnetic Smart Materials and Processes. Magnetic Smart materials are used in a range of applications including car brakes and shock absorbers in civil engineering, industrial machinery, washing machines and prosthetic limbs.

Ioniqa has developed a Magnetic Smart Process to recycle all kinds of coloured PET polyester waste into ‘virgin quality’ raw materials, competing with oil-base PET in both quality and costs. With this game changing technology Ioniqa has found a profitable solution for almost a quarter of all plastic waste in the world.

A user interface has been developed within the RheoCube environment, which emulates a “wet-lab” familiar to material scientists, and manages all aspects of the simulation. This includes a workflow which enables the user to design and run an experiment on the Cloud-based-HPC backend system. For each step of the workflow, objects such as particles, fluids and materials can be defined. Post-processing libraries and visualisation, and analysis frameworks support the interpretation of results by the user.