Multiphysics and Multiscale Simulation for the Design of Microstructured Materials and Miniaturized Active Devices

Multiphysics and multiscale problems are encountered when the behaviour and/or underlying structure of a material or device is affected by several physical phenomena and depends on the geometry, scales and properties of the composing substructure. Interactions of the physical phenomena and geometric scales can lead to a completely different behaviour of the system, than expected when couplings or essential relations of length- and timescales are neglected. This is important when material properties of heterogeneous materials or the performance of active devices are optimized as shown for applications of microstructured materials and active and sensing devices with microscale components.