The present article describes design, architecture, and implementation of the Aachen (“Aix”) Virtual Platform for Materials Processing—AixViPMaP^®. This simulation platform focuses on enabling automatic simulation workflows in the area of microstructure evolution and microstructure property relationships by continuum models. Following a description of a variety AixViPMaP® functionalities like user management, the currently implemented software tools, simulation workflows, data storage, grid infrastructure, and many more, some example workflows which have been run on AixViPMaP® are presented in detail. These workflow examples—although each being specific—can readily be transferred to other materials or to similar processes as the major simulation tools used in these workflows are all generic and thus applicable to a wide range of metals and technical alloys. The article concludes with a discussion on the performance and benefits of the platform, an outlook on its future development and on its open, future availability for both academic and commercial use.

中文翻译：

---

AixViPMaP®—用于微结构建模工作流程的操作平台

本文章介绍了设计，建筑和亚琛（“艾克斯”）的材料加工，AixViPMaP虚拟平台的执行^®。该仿真平台专注于通过连续模型在微观结构演变和微观结构特性关系领域实现自动仿真工作流程。在描述了各种AixViPMaP®功能（如用户管理），当前实现的软件工具，仿真工作流，数据存储，网格基础结构等之后，详细介绍了一些在AixViPMaP®上运行的示例工作流。这些工作流程示例（尽管每个都是特定的）可以很容易地转移到其他材料或相似的过程中，因为这些工作流程中使用的主要模拟工具都是通用的，因此适用于多种金属和技术合金。本文最后讨论了该平台的性能和优势，