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15.1 Introduction Just about any field of engineering has its computer simulation methods: finite element analysis, computationalfluid dynamics,multibodydynamics, andboundary elementmethods all address the simulation of physical phenomena. This technology as a whole is known as computer-aided engineering (CAE) and it has come quite far. Today, many engineering decisions are based solely on computer simulations of complex phenomena. This is also going to be the case in ergonomics and biomechanics.