Research Interests
- Numerical methods for partial differential equations
- Finite element methods
- Multigrid solvers
- Numerical methods for incompressible Stokes- and Navier-Stokes equations
- Numerical methods for two-phase incompressible flow problems
Some activities and projects
- Member of AICES:
Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science
- Member of CCES:
Center for Computational Engineering Science
- Member of Cluster of Excellence Tailor-Made
Fuels from Biomass.
- Project: "Modeling and simulation of droplets with variable surface properties"
- Coordinator of DFG Priority Programme 1506 Transport Processes at Fluidic Interfaces.
- Project: "Numerical methods for two-phase incompressible flows with mass transport"
- DFG project "Development and analysis of an Eulerian finite element method for PDEs on implicitly defined surfaces" (joint with Prof. Dr. Maxim Olshanskii, Moscow University)
- DFG project "Mass transport in falling liquid films", joint with Prof.Dr.-Ing. M. Modigell, Prof.Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt.
- Member of Graduiertenkollegs (DFG projects):
- Member of Collaborative Research Centres (DFG projects)
- SFB 401: "Strömungsbeeinflussung und Strömungs-Struktur-Wechselwirkung
an Tragflügeln", (2000-2008)
- Project: "Parallele, adaptive Verfahren zur Behandlung von
Strömungs-Struktur-Wechselwirkungen"
- Project: "Iterative Lösungsverfahren für nichtlineare
Gleichungssysteme in Lösern für stationäre,
kompressible Strömungen"
- SFB 540: "Model-based Experimental
Analysis of Kinetic Phenomena in Fluid Multi-phase Reactive Systems", (1999-2009)
- Project B4: "Multigrid Methods for the Numerical Simulation of Reactive
Multiphase Fluid Flow Models"
- Project C6: "Adaptive Parameter Estimation Methods for Flow Problems"
- Development of the software package
DROPS for numerical simulations of
two-phase imcompressible flows
Workshops, etc.
- Two-phase incompressible flows:
modeling aspects and methods for numerical simulation,
June 25th - 27th, 2007, RWTH-Aachen
- Kick-off Meeting and Summerschool, DFG Priority Programme 1506 Transport Processes at Fluidic Interfaces,
July 7th - 9th, 2010, TU Darmstadt
- Minisymposium "Advanced Numerical Techniques for Flows with Interfacial Transport Phenomena" at the FEF2011 conference,
March23th - 25th, 2011, TUM
- International Workshop SPP 1506 Transport Processes at Fluidic Interfaces:
From Mathematical to Experimental Analysis,
December 5th - 8th, 2011, RWTH-Aachen
Editorial activities
Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, 2006 - 2008
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