Nordic Pilot Centre NPC

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Nordic Pilot Centre (NPC)

• NPC Coordinator
• Stefan Wallin, KTH/FOI
• NPC representatives in ERCOFTAC Managing Board
  (MB)
• Industrial Stefan Wallin, FOI
• Research Helge Andersson, NTU
• National representatives in NPC
• Helge Andersson, NTU
• Knud Erik Meyer, DTU
• Antti Hellsten, TKK
• Stefan Wallin, KTH/FOI
• NPC Web page (http//www.mech.kth.se/ercoftac)

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Members, industry (12)

• Grundfos A/S, Bjerringbro, Denmark
• Force Technology, Brøndby, Denmark
• Ødegaard Danneskiold-Samsøe A/S, Copenhagen,
  Denmark
• CSC-Scientific Computing Ltd, Espoo, Finland
• Metso Paper Sundsvall AB, Sundsvall, Sweden
• Fortum Nuclear Services, Espoo, Finland
• SAAB Computational Aerodynamics, Linköping,
  Sweden
• VOLVO Aero Corporation, Trollhättan, Sweden
• Vattenfall Utveckling AB, Älvkarleby, Sweden
• Onsala Ingenjörsbyra AB, Kungsbacka, Sweden
• VOLVO Car Corporation, Gothenburg, Sweden
• ABB Corporate Research, Västerås, Sweden

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Members, research (18)

• Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
• Aalborg University Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark
• Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark
• Aalborg University, Aalborg
• Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland
• Tampere University of Technology, Tampere,
  Finland
• VTT Technical Research C Finland, Espoo, Finland
• University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
• Norwegian University of Science, Trondheim,
  Norway
• Norwegian Defence Research Establishment,
  Kjeller, Norway
• Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway
• The Royal Institute of Technology, Dept. of
  Mechanics, Stockholm, Sweden
• Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden
• Royal Institute of Technology, C2M2, Stockholm,
  Sweden
• Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm,
  Sweden
• Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
• Chalmers Institute of Technology, Göteborg,
  Sweden
• Royal Institute of Technology, Faxén Laboratory,
  Stockholm, Sweden

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NPC activities

• Annual meetings
• 1996 at Thoresta Herrgård, Sweden
• 1997 in Ebeltoft, Denmark
• 1998 in Majvik, Finland
• 1999 in Brekestad, Norway
• 2000 at Smådalarö Gård, Sweden
• 2001 at Magelås Kursuscenter, Denmark
• 2002 in Tuusula, Finland
• 2003 in Marstrand, Sweden
• 2005 in Oslo, Norway
• 2006 in Dragør, Denmark
• 2007?

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The future of NPC ...

• Welcome 3 new members since last meeting
• Ødegaard Danneskiold-Samsøe A/S, Denmark
• Fortum, Finland
• ABB Research, Sweden
• Dantec Dynamics to be the next member?
• Stable interest
• 27 persons, 23 presentations (as in Oslo 2005)
• Visibility of NPC (evening discussion)
• How to attract industry?
• How to attract all members (9 of 30 this year)

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NPC report in the Bulletin

• December issue, due mid November
• Content
• Organisation and members, NPC meetings
• SIG activities and other events, also future
• Members scientific activities, also industry
• Invite you to send me
• Summary of scientific activities since 2002
• 1/2 to 1 page with nice b/w figures
• due 15th October
• Format Microsoft word (sorry, but open office
  also OK)
• I will collect and distribute for comments