BGCE Research Day
The BGCE research day is a regular advanced seminar on current topics in computational engineering.
Upcoming Research Days
In winter term 2010:
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dates t.b.a.
Last Research Day
July 1st, 2010, Garching
- COME (Munich) students: BGCE Rodeo
Isogeometric Analysis with CARAT++
- M. Mihai:
A walk on the clouds: distributed applications and computations (BGCE project)
- CE (Erlangen) students: BGCE Work in Progress
- N. Melik-Bakhudarov:
Semi-supervised learning on adaptive sparse grids
- A. Magana Mora (KAUST): KAUST-TUM: one thousand and one projects
Previous Speakers at the Research Day
June 10, 2010, Munich
- M. Breitenberger:
Isogeometric Analysis with CARAT++
- Li Huang:
Using Wii Remote in Virtual Reality Systems
- CE (Erlangen) students: BGCE Rodeo
- E. Stavropoulou, M. Hojjat:
Geometry treatment and shape optimization for fluid-structure interaction wind engineering problems
- CSE (Garching) students: BGCE Work in Progress
May 27, 2010, Erlangen
- M. Kreutzer:
Implementation and Optimization of a Jacobi solver on CUDA
- COME (München) students: BGCE Work in Progress
- B. Bergen (Los Alamos National Lab):
An Application Model for Total-Workflow Using OpenCL
- CSE (Garching) students: BGCE Rodeo
- D. Anderl:
BGCE Project: Comparison of the Frameworks Peano and HHG
January 21, 2010, Munich
- H. Wille:
Continuous Pedestrian Simulation
- CE (Erlangen) students: BGCE Work in Progress
- S. Geißelsöder:
Supervised Teaching
- CSE (Garching) students: BGCE Rodeo
- M. Fischer:
Carat++: An Object-Oriented and Parallel Finite Element Software
- Dr.-Ing. A. Hörmann (EADS):
Structural Optimization of Aircrafts
December 10, 2009, Garching
- CE (Erlangen) students: BGCE Rodeo
- N. Melik-Barkhudarov and S. Selcuk:
Elite Project: Free Surface Flow Visualization for Peano
- COME (München) students: BGCE Work in Progress
- T. Both and S. Sicklinger:
Mortar Method for the Partitioned Solution of Surface Coupled Problems
- L. Huang:
Vector Extrapolation Method for FSI
- H. Wille:
Development of a Continuous Pedestrian Simulator
- Y. Li:
Towards a Framework for Empirical Project Analysis for Software Engineering Models
November 5, 2009, Erlangen
- B. Gmeiner:
Convergence Rate Optimization and tau-Extrapolation for Multigrid FEM Solvers
- Computational Mechanics (München) students: BGCE Rodeo
- Cell workshop presentations:
Sarpkan Selcuk, Daniel Kleine-Albers and Markus Stürmer
- CSE (München) students: BGCE Work in Progress
- Nima Shahriari:
Implementation of free surface with Lattice Boltzmann in Peano
- Daniel Kleine-Albers:
Experiences of the Internship at CERN
- S. Geisselsöder:
Elite Project: Rolling mill simulation on multicore processors
July 9, 2009, Garching:
- Takayuki Aoki: (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
GPU computing for CFD applications
- Christoph Kowitz:
The Peano Framework
- Daniel Butnaru:
Parallelisation in the Peano Framework
- Computational Engineering (Erlangen) students: BGCE Rodeo
- BGCE Work in Progress:
- Kai Sheng:
Java 3D GUI Development for Automotive Design
- Robert Schmidt:
Integration CAD-CAE based on isogeometric analyis
- Hao Zhou:
Extraction of graphs from building ground plans
- Visit of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
- BGCE Barbecue (celebrating 25 BGCE Research Days)
Isogeometric Analysis with CARAT++
A walk on the clouds: distributed applications and computations (BGCE project)
Semi-supervised learning on adaptive sparse grids
Isogeometric Analysis with CARAT++
Using Wii Remote in Virtual Reality Systems
Geometry treatment and shape optimization for fluid-structure interaction wind engineering problems
Implementation and Optimization of a Jacobi solver on CUDA
An Application Model for Total-Workflow Using OpenCL
BGCE Project: Comparison of the Frameworks Peano and HHG
Continuous Pedestrian Simulation
- S. Geißelsöder: Supervised Teaching
Carat++: An Object-Oriented and Parallel Finite Element Software
Structural Optimization of Aircrafts
Elite Project: Free Surface Flow Visualization for Peano
- T. Both and S. Sicklinger: Mortar Method for the Partitioned Solution of Surface Coupled Problems
- L. Huang: Vector Extrapolation Method for FSI
- H. Wille: Development of a Continuous Pedestrian Simulator
Towards a Framework for Empirical Project Analysis for Software Engineering Models
Convergence Rate Optimization and tau-Extrapolation for Multigrid FEM Solvers
Sarpkan Selcuk, Daniel Kleine-Albers and Markus Stürmer
- Nima Shahriari: Implementation of free surface with Lattice Boltzmann in Peano
- Daniel Kleine-Albers: Experiences of the Internship at CERN
Elite Project: Rolling mill simulation on multicore processors
GPU computing for CFD applications
The Peano Framework
Parallelisation in the Peano Framework
- Kai Sheng: Java 3D GUI Development for Automotive Design
- Robert Schmidt: Integration CAD-CAE based on isogeometric analyis
- Hao Zhou: Extraction of graphs from building ground plans
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May 28, 2009, Erlangen:
- Computational Mechanics (München) students: BGCE Rodeo
- CSE (Garching) students: Work in Progress
- Florian Rathgeber:
Fire simulation (Bachelor thesis) - Harald Köstler:
Introduction to GPU programming - Sunil Ramgopal, Mustafa Kavasoglu, Yuanjun Zhang:
Multigrid on Cell and GPU (Honours project) - Felipe Aristizabal (Nanofluids Research Group, McGill University, Canada):
Multi-scale simulation of nanofluid dynamics
May 14, 2009, Munich:
- Kenta Sugihara (Tokyo Institute of Technology):
GPU Computing of Compressible Flow by using Multi-Moment IDO-CF Scheme - Tim Ricken:
Gekoppelte Mehrfeld-, Mehrphasen und Mehrskalenmodelle (Computational Mechanics Seminar) - Demo:
Interactive Thermal Comfort Simulation - CSE (TUM) students: BGCE Rodeo
- Florian Mintgen:
Development and Implementation of a Wall Model for the Immersed Boundary Method - BGCE Work in Progress:
- Florian Rathgeber: Sparse Representation using the Batch-OMP Algorithm on the GPU
- Stefan Geisselsöder: Shared Memory Parallelization of the PE Physics Engine
- Rishi Patil: Simulation of Quenching Process in Coal Gasification
- Klaus Sembritzki: Time-of-Flight Camera for Mouse Input
January 15, 2009, Munich:
- Quanji Cai:
Calculation of Curvature Based on Data Clouds - Mahmoud Ismail :
One Dimensional FSI Modelling of an Arterial Tree - Computational Engineering (Erlangen) students: BGCE Rodeo
- Chien Ming Wang (Technical University Singapore):
Very Large Floating Structures - Creating Land from the Sea - BGCE Work in Progress:
- Dheevatsa Mudigere: Neural Network Control for the Self-Erecting Inverted Pendulum
- Ventsislav Petkov: An Introduction to Periscope
December 18, 2008, Garching:
- Kaveh Rahnema:
Self Erecting Inverted Pendulum: modeling, simulation and the real system - Coskun Özgür :
Positron activity surface imaging using tracked beta probes for intraoperative control of resection borders in cancer surgery - come.tum students: BGCE Rodeo
- BGCE Work in Progress:
- Yunyun Ni: Room Acoustic Simulation
- Nikola Bednar: Efficient Computation of Hilbert Mappings
- Daniel Butnaru:
Grid Services and GridSFEA - Olgica Nikolin:
Integration of GridSFEA into gEclipse
November 27, 2008, Erlangen:
- Dominik Haspel:
Simulation of clotting processes using non-newtonian blood models and the lattice boltzmann method - Michael Hanke (KTH Stockholm):
Computational Modelling of Metabolism in Mammalian Cells - CSE students: BGCE Rodeo
- BGCE Work in Progress: (come.tum)
- Kai Sheng: Development and visualization of car-mass-allocation using Java
- Florian Mintgen: Development and Implementation of a Bead Optimization Algorithm
- Hao Zhou: Numerical homogenisation
- Sima Zahedi Fard: Algebraic and elliptic grid generation on block-structured domains
- Constantin Popa (Ovidius University Constanta):
Constrained Component Averaging in Image Reconstruction
June 12, 2008, Garching/LRZ:
- come.tum students: BGCE Rodeo
- Ilya Saverchenko (LRZ):
Remote Visualization of Interactive Simulations on the Grid - Bian Xin:
Numerical Solution of the Potential Equation on Nonorthogonal Meshes - Adriana Bocoi:
Adaptive Channel Capacity in Optical Long-Haul Networks - BGCE Work in Progress:
- Mustafa Kavasoglu, Yuanjun Zhang, Sunil Ramgopal: Optimizing a Multigrid Poisson Solver on GPU and Cell Processor for Applications in Image Processing
- Rishi Patil, Björn Gmeiner: Implementation of the Multiple Phase and Component Model According to Shan and Chen into waLBerla
- Evelyn Otero, Yunyun Ni: Room Acoustics Simulation
- Ali Shadavakhsh: Modeling Elastomer behaviour
May 8, 2008, Erlangen:
- CSE students: BGCE Rodeo
- Yongqi Sun:
Parallel DAE Solver in Power Plant Simulation - Daniel Ritter:
Fast multigrid solvers for molecular dynamics on the Cell Broadband Engine - Matthias Grajewski (U Dortmund):
A new fast and accurate grid deformation method for adaptivity on locally structured grids
April 24, 2008, Munich:
- Yue Zhao:
A Computational Human Model for Thermal Comfort Simulation - Hao Zhang:
Successive Latin Hypercube Designs for Global Metamodeling Techniques - Quanji Cai:
(1) Automated adjustment of automotive seating structures
(2) Calculation of curvature based on data clouds - CE students: BGCE Rodeo
January 31, 2008, Erlangen:
- Dominik Bartuschat, Eugenio Carvalheira, Dominik Haspel, Yongqi Sun:
EEG Based Reconstruction of Dipolar Current Sources within the Human Head - Yongqi Sun:
Parallel Solvers for Power Plant Simulation - Gerhard Wellein:
Architecture and Performance of Multi-/Many-core Algorithms - Klaus Iglberger:
Large scale Lattice-Boltzmann Simulations: The need for Supercomputers - Jan Götz:
Lattice Boltzmann Blood Flow Simulation with the Cell Processor
January 10, 2008, Garching:
- Adriana Bocoi, Anca Berariu, Coskun Özgür, Bian Xin,
Krzysztof Golab, Bernhard Gatzhammer:
Visualising the Millions - Janos Benk, Fayssal El Moufatich, Deepak Pandey:
Financial Model Fitter - Alexander Heinecke:
Parallel Matrix Multiplication based on Space-Filling Curves on Shared Memory Platforms - Konrad Waldherr:
Numerical Linear Algebra Tasks in a Quantum Control Problem
November 29, 2007, München:
- Iason Papaioannou:
Fluid-Structure Interaction with High Order Finite Element Methods - Stefan Diebels (Chair of Applied Mechanics, Saarland University):
Multiscale Computations and Extended Continua - Johannes Guggenberger (Müller-BBM Gmbh):
Reduction of Large FE-Models to Improve Computational Performance - Christian Dick:
GPU-Friendly High-Quality Terrain Rendering
July 12, 2007, München:
- Ernst Rank:
IGSSE - International Graduate School of Science and Engineering - Roland Wüchner:
IGSSE-Project: Isogeometric shape optimal design of surface coupled 3D structures - Christoph van Treeck:
IGSSE-Project: Interplay between Building, it Users, the Climate and Energy Efficiency - Zhengxiong Yang:
IGSSE-Project: Computational Steering for Orthopeadics - Michael Bader, Carsten Trinitis:
IGSSE-Project: Hardware-aware Simulation and Computing - André Borrmann:
Specification and implementation of directional operators in a 3D Spatial Query Language for Building Information Models
June 14, 2007, Garching
- Coskun Özgür, Bian Xin, Anca Berariu, Krzysztof Golab,
Adriana Bocoi, Bernhard Gatzhammer:
Visualising the Millions - Janos Benk, Fayssal El Moufatich, Deepak Pandey:
Financial Model Fitter - Florian Grüner (Department of Physics, LMU):
Simulation of laser-driven electron-acceleration: on the path into a novel field of physics - invited talk:
Alfonso Bueno-Orovio:
Extension of Spectral Methods to Irregular Domains via a Fictitious Domain Approach
(2007 CS&E Student Paper Prize awarded by BGCE at the SIAM Conference on Computatational Science and Engineering) - Visit of the new federal supercomputer at the Leibniz Rechenzentrum.
May 10, 2007, Erlangen
- Klaus Iglberger:
Rigid body dynamics - Jingfeng Han:
Hot spot segmentation for validation of SPECT/CT hybrid scanner - Eugenio Carvalheira, Yongqi Sun, Dominik Haspel, Dominik Bartuschat:
Elite project 2007: EEG based reconstruction of dipolar current sources within the human head - Jegan Mohan:
Implementation of a Linear Elasticity Solver Using Expression Templates - Manfred Kaltenbacher:
Computational Acoustics
Febrary 8, 2007, München
See pictures of the event (taken by Ulrich Rüde).
- Hans-Georg Sehlhorst:
Implementation and numerical investigation of a two-dimensional anisotropic higher-order finite element formulation - Haoxin Zhao:
Transferring the solution of a shortest path problem to a personal digital assistant - Iason Papaioannou:
Learning object-oriented programming in the context of using a multiphysics FEM library - Andreas Niggl:
Volume models for the computation and the design of Civil Engineering structures - Demonstration I-Room: visit of the Virtual-Reality-Lab of the chair of Bauinformatik.

January 18, 2007, Garching
(reduced program because of storm "Kyrill")
- Ursula Mayer:
A Fourth Order Semi-Implicit Runge-Kutta-Method for Compressible Euler Equations - Audrey Nemeth:
A New Method to Find Collisions between Moving Objects, Application: Rockfall Simulation - Mohamed Bamakhrama, Carla Guillen, Ursula Mayer, Lejing Wang:
Peano Geometric Sophisticated Interface
November 23, 2006, Erlangen
- Heiko Kettler and Markus Gebhard:
FVM & stabilized FEM simulation to analyze the airflow through the esophagus during substitute voice generation - Tobias Gradl:
Parallel Multigrid for Finite Elements - Markus Stürmer:
Cell processor programming - Michael Griebel (Institute for Numerical Simulation, Univ. Bonn; invited talk):
A parallel three dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes solver for two-phase flow problems with surface tension using a level-set approach
July 6, 2006, Garching
- Niko Manopulo:
Computer Aided Robustness Optimization and Objective Function Calculation - Zhang Hao:
Transferring the Solution of a Shortest Path Problem to a Personal Digital Assistant - Ursula Mayer and Carla Guillen:
Summer School in Fluid Structure Interaction - 'Eric' Wei E:
An Overview of Enterprise Search and Its Performance Issue - Mohamed Bamakhrama and Lejing Wang:
Peano Geometric Sophisticated Interface Project
June 22, 2006, Erlangen
Thursday, June 22, 2006 in Erlangen (HEC Symposium)June 1st, 2006, Erlangen
- Zheng Yuanhang:
Motion Blur - Daniel Ritter:
Hybrid control in preparative chromatography - Marcus Gebhardt and Heiko Kettler:
FEM and FVM simulation to analyze the airflow through the esophagus during substitute voice generation - Stefan Donath:
Power Optimization Techniques for Digital Integrated Circuits in Deep Submicron and Nanometer ASIC Technologies - Kunal Arora:
Hybrid LES-RANS technique based on one-equation near-wall model - Sankha Banerjee:
Turbulence modelling using eigenvalue (invariant) approach
May 18, 2006, München
- Zhang Hao:
Transferring the solution of a shortest path problem to a personal digital assistant. - Michael Fischer:
Structural Optimization - Ioan Muntean:
Supervised Teaching (CSE) - Cihan Turgut:
Verification of spot weld failure modelling using ABAQUS/Explicit
Jan 12, 2006, Garching
- R. Mundani:
Organisation and Steering of Simulation Processes Using Octrees - S. Schraufstetter:
Efficient storage and processing of adaptive triangular grids using an approach based on Sierpinski curves - J. Weidendörfer:
Performance measurements for cache optimisation - D. Popiv, V. Dikov, L. Valgaerts, N. Manopulo, I. Saverchenko:
Molecular Dynamics Project: Student Project at CSE - Elitenetzwerk Bayern
Dec 2, 2005, München
- H. Heidkamp:
Enlargement of the Metro Station Marienplatz - A Complex Tunnel Project beneath the Munich City Hall - P. Andres Suarez:
Robust design optimization in sheet metal forming - Y.J. Chan:
Development of a building energy simulation prototype using Maple - P. Rhyzhakov:
Numerical simulation of radiative heat exchange between faces using a radiosity approach - N. Manopulo:
Molecular Dynamics Project: Student Project at CSE - Elitenetzwerk Bayern
Nov 17, 2005, Erlangen
- J. Götz:
Numerical Simulation of Blood Flow - V. Buwa:
Numerical Simulations of Bubble Formation on Submerged Orifices - M. Prümmer:
2D-3D Image Registration - Chr. Möller:
Numerical Treatment of Singularities in the Reconstruction of Dipole-induced Electro-Magnetic Potentials in the Human Head
Jul 7, 2005, Garching
- R. Fischer:
Multigrid Methods for anisotropic BTTB Systems - T. Weinzierl, T. Neckel:
Peano curves and cache efficieny for solving PDE - D. Pflüger:
Data Mining using Sparse Grids
High-End-Computing Symposium, Jun 16, 2005, Erlangen
- A. Bode:
Höchstleistungsrechnen: Stand der Technik und Bedeutung für Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft in Europa - C. Körner:
Lattice Boltzmann Methode mit freien Oberflächen für Schaumbildungsprozesse - H. D. Simon:
Towards Petascale Computing for Science
May 12, 2005, Erlangen
- C. Feichtinger, K. Iglberger, N. Thuerey:
Lattice Boltzmann simulation with (moving) particles - H.-J. Bungartz:
Elite Simulation-Software Project at TUM - T. Pohl:
Parallel Lattice Boltzmann with Free Surfaces and Applications in the Material Sciences







