The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) is a research organization in Barcelona, Spain. CIMNE was created in 1987 as a Consortium between the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya) and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya). CIMNE is an autonomous RTD centre focusing in promoting and fostering advances in the development and application of numerical methods and computational techniques for the solution of engineering problems in an international context. 

CIMNE employs some 180 scientists and engineers from different technical fields and nationalities specialised in the development of numerical methods to a wide class of engineering problems. The research activities of CIMNE cover the development of innovative constitutive models for composite materials and structures, new numerical methods for non linear analysis and safety studies of structures, shape optimization in structural and fluid dynamic problems, computational fluid dynamics studies for both external and internal flow problems and numerical simulation of material deformation and forming processes for the manufacturing industry, mesh generation and visualization interfaces, casting and thermal process, stochastic optimization as well as program parallelization and distributed (grid) computing techniques.

• Solid and Structural Mechanics
• Fluid mechanics 
• Manufacturing processes 
• Decision Support Systems

Industries

Transport, Information and Communication Technologies, Environment, Energy, Construction and restoration