Simulation Data Management and Reuse: Toward a Verification and Validation Approach

Abstract : Nowadays, in various sectors of industry, numerical simulation process becomes more and more time consuming. In this process, the lead time of the pre-processing stage is predominant. Therefore, in order to optimize this process and hence, the design process, the created computational models need to be reused. According to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) approach in an extended enterprise context, the computational models come from various partners, departments and heterogeneous tools. In order to reuse these computational models, it is necessary to capitalize the simulation data in accordance with a common standardized and structured format. Based on a Simulation Lifecycle Management (SLM) approach and a Verification & Validation methodology, this paper proposes a framework and a process to enable the reuse of computational models.