BGCE Research Day

The BGCE research day is a regular advanced seminar on current topics in computational engineering.

Upcoming Research Days

In summer term 2012:

t.b.a.

Next Research Day

January 19, 2012, Munich

• M. Saeedi:
  Stochastic modeling of atmospheric wind in application to the aeroelastic simulation of a rotating blade
• CE (Erlangen) students: BGCE Work in Progress
  
• G. Steber:
  FSI between OpenFoam and Calculix
• D. Schillinger:
  A seamless isogeometric design-through-analysis methodology based on the Finite Cell Method for complex geometric models
• CSE (Garching) students: BGCE Rodeo
  

Last Research Day

December 8, 2011, Garching

• C. Lasser:
  Quantum dynamics via classical mechanics
• CE (Erlangen) students: BGCE Rodeo
  
• D. Gudu and M. Hinterstocker:
  MRI goes FRAVE
• A. Stavrev:
  Stochastic Buckling Analysis of Imperfect I-Section Beam-Columns
• COME (Munich) students: BGCE Work in Progress
  
  • A. Apostolatos: Contact Problems and Isogeometric Analysis
    
  • J. Luque: Structural Reliability-based Optimization
    
• J. Prsa:
  Isogeometric analysis applied on a wing-flap model
  

Previous Speakers at the Research Day

November 17, 2011, Erlangen

• M. Hofmann, P. Manstetten:
  Simulating Phase Transitions of Hard Spherocylinders in the pe Physics Engine (BGCE project)
• CSE (Garching) students: BGCE Work in Progress
  
• T. Zhou:
  OpenFOAM applied in CFD Simulation of Head Pressure Waves and its Comparisons with CFX
• COME (Munich) students: BGCE Rodeo
  
• D. Anderl, M. Kreutzer:
  Report on Exchange to KTH Stockholm and Master Theses at ABB
  
• S. Bogner:
  Hydrodynamic Stability of Floating Objects
  

July 14, 2011, Munich

• W. Betz:
  Polynomial Chaos Approximations of Random Variables - Non-Intrusive Spectral Methods
• J. Degroote (Gent):
  Partitioned Simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction
• CSE (Garching) students: BGCE Work in Progress
  
  • M. Mihai: Visualizing the Structural Variability of Isosurfaces in Uncertain Scalar Fields
  • T. Kovacevic: Scenario Generator in a Molecular Dynamics Project
  • M. Georgiev: Particle Tracer for Fluid Simulations
• CE (Erlangen) students: BGCE Rodeo
  
• V.V. Buwa (IIT Delhi):
  Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Complex Multiphase Flows

June 30, 2011, Garching

• D. Jarema:
  Comparison and Coupling of a Lattice-Boltzmann Fluid-interaction Code with the Faxen Correction Approach (Master's Thesis)
• come.TUM (Muenchen) students: BGCE Rodeo
  
• D. Gudu and A. Shahvarani:
  Visualization and Simulation Techniques (Elite Project)
• CE (Erlangen) students: BGCE Work in Progress
  
  • M. Bauer, C. Kuschel and K. Sembritzki: Evaluation of PGAS Languages for a Linked-Cell Algorithm
• T. Huckle:
  Science and Ethics - Some illustrative and amusing examples

May 12, 2011, Erlangen

• M. Grießinger, C. Nan:
  Final Talk Honours Projekt: Evaluation of HHG
• G. Wellein (RRZE):
  Application Performance in the Multi-Core Era -- Lessons to Be Learned for Exascale Computing
• Visitation of LiMa -- Bavaria's fastest Super Computer
• CSE (Garching) students: BGCE Rodeo
  
• M. Heene, M. Hofmann, P. Manstetten, D. Staubach:
  Introduction Honours Project: Simulating Phase-Transitions with Spherocylinders in the pe Physics Engine
• CE (Erlangen) students: BGCE Work in Progress
  
  • W. Betz: Discretization of random fields
  • M. Saeedi: Wind Field Simulation
  • T. Zhu: CFD Simulation on the generation of pressure waves near a high speed train using OpenFOAM

January 20, 2011, Munich

• C. Becker:
  Impact of turbulence on the flow at complex geometries - comparison of 2D shallow water equation - RANS
• CE (Erlangen) students: BGCE Work in Progress
  
  • M. Grießinger, C. Nan: Comparison of the HHG and Peano framework
• CSE (Garching) students: BGCE Rodeo
  
  • E. Ebrahim: Dust particle classification
  • D. Jarema : Resource manager in a walk on the clouds project
  • D. Karam : Web of things
  • M. Mihai : Solver components using the sciCODE plugin
  • J. Prsa : Computational sustainability
• S. Sicklinger:
  Evaluation and investigation of explicit coupling schemes for partitioned fluid-structure interaction (BGCE project)
• Zohar Yosibash (Ben Gurion University, Israel):
  An afternoon talk on human femurs - biomechanical experiments, modeling and numerical simulation

December 9, 2010, Garching

• Riko Jacob:
  Memory Efficient Sorting, Permuting and Hierarchization of Sparse Grids
• CE (Erlangen) students: Rodeo
  
• E. Ebrahim and D. Jarema:
  A walk on the clouds: Middleware use in Computational Applications and Resource Management in Distributed Systems (BGCE project)
• COME (Munich) students: BGCE Work in Progress
  
• N. Shahriari:
  Direct numerical simulation of a swept blunt body at various angles of attack for supersonic flight vehicles (Master's Thesis)

November 11, 2010, Erlangen

• J. Götz:
  Direct Numerical Simulation of Particulate Flows on 300.000 Compute Cores
• CSE (Garching) students: BGCE Work in Progress
  
• M. Bauer, C. Kuschel, and K. Sembritzki:
  Comparison of PGAS languages for a linked-cell algorithm (BGCE project)
• COME (Munich) students: BGCE Rodeo
  
• D. Ritter: Multigrid on multiple GPUs
  

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
  

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)

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
Visit of the Leinbiz Computing Centre
• 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

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