Remarks on coupled multi‐scale simulations and high performance computation

Abstract To describe material behaviour more precisely than nowadays, tomorrows simulation software will include multi‐scale homogenisation techniques. State of the art are various scale bridging strategies, like FE‐ODE, FE‐Phasefield or FE2‐Method. We are dealing with the FE2‐Method, see [3], [4], which gives us the possibility to take the geometric, discrete micro‐structure of a material into account. Furthermore, it allows to integrate enhanced continuum mechanical models. Here, we are researching on two‐scale approach with poro‐mechanical coupling based on the Theory of Porous Media (TPM), for more details see [1] or [2]. The framework is demanding and need a lot of computational effort. In order to receive industrial recognition, it is necessary to decrease the computation runtime. One way to go is definitely using high performance cluster. (© 2016 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)