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SCALE is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Doctoral Network; a joint research training and doctoral programme, funded by the European Union and implemented by a partnership of high-profile universities, research institutions, and non-academic organisations located in seven different countries.

SCALE is the acronym of the research project “Industry empowerment to Multiphase fluid dynamics simulations using Artificial intelligence and Statistical methods on modern hardware architectures at Scale”. It started on 1st October 2023, and it ends on 31st of March 2028.

SCALE addresses two of the six EU research, technological and societal priorities: 

• The European Green Deal: It mandates zero CO2 emissions from cars by 2035, and implementation of renewable energy sources in the energy market, aiming to reach net-zero CO2 by 2050 in the EU.
• The Horizon Europe mission on Cancer, stating that it “improves the lives of more than 3 million people by 2030 through prevention, cure and for those affected by cancer including their families, to live longer and better. Cancer affects everyone regardless of age, gender or social status and represents a tremendous burden for patients, families, and societies at large’.

To achieve those targets, new scientific knowledge, design tools and well-trained researchers, as envisioned in SCALE, are prerequisites. Therefore, SCALE aims to provide a unique training opportunity to the Doctoral Candidates who will be part of a well-connected cyber-physical-technological network developing physics-informed, data-driven and ML-assisted high-order physical and numerical CFD models across a wide range of CFD applications. These advances will: (i) accelerate the product design time, and (ii) open new opportunities to tackle processes that nowadays are impossible to simulate with adequate resolution. Additionally, the recruited Doctoral Candidates will be trained and supported to become research leaders in academia and research-intensive industries.

Industrial applications addressed in SCALE: hydraulic turbomachines, hydrodynamic propulsion, decarbonisation strategies for transportation, pharmaceutical industries, additives, heat transfer and thermal management concepts for electric motors (e-motors).

The project is coordinated by Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg (OVGU). Scientist in charge: Prof. Manolis Gavaises.