KORPUS is a mobile application for collecting pain data in research settings. A participant marks on a body map the location, the intensity, and the type of pain they are experiencing. Entries from across a study population are then gathered into heat maps, which visualise how pain develops over the course of a study, where it concentrates within different subgroups,…

When two objects interact, a contact may occur. Such interactions are present in countless applications, ranging from car tires on roads and human joints during movement to robotic grippers handling objects. That is why understanding and simulating contact is essential in many fields of engineering. Despite advances in computing power and numerical methods, contact remains one of the most challenging…

Burning fuel in industrial applications—like an engine or a furnace—is rarely calm and simple. Instead, the flames are often chaotic (turbulent), and inside them, the flow of gases and the chemical reactions that release heat are constantly influencing each other in complicated ways. This makes it very hard for computers to predict exactly what will happen. The core challenge comes…

Industrial automation is the software that literally runs the world around us. From trains to power plants and breweries to factories, it is the automation engineer who decides how to operate these machines correctly and safely. The tool of the trade is the programmable logic controller, or PLC. It’s a regular PC outfitted with a vendor’s proprietary runtimes for industrial…