Sarntal/Südtirol, September 18-30, 2005
Sarntal/Südtirol, September 18-30, 2005
Approx. 14 students in a diploma program (having completed your Vordiplom), a B.Sc. program (being at least in the fifth semester), or a M.Sc. program covering important aspects of numerical simulation, such as
This course is offered in cooperation with the Bavarian Graduate School in Computational Engineering.
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The understanding of phenomena and processes from science and engineering is, today, no longer merely based on theory and experiment, but more and more on computations, as well. Numerical simulations supplement experiments, and sometimes even allow the study of technical systems and natural phenomena that would be too time-consuming, expensive, or dangerous (if possible at all) to study by experiment alone.
The increasing quest for higher levels of detail and realism in such simulations requires enormous computational capacity, advanced programming skills, and sophisticated models and algorithms. Due to the progresses in each of these fields, we can now solve large-scale problems that were once thought to be intractable.
Successful simulation projects typically require an interdisciplinary team of (applied) mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers from the respective field of application. Opportunities to get used to this style of interdisciplinary work are much to rare during regular university programs, but our course at the Ferienakademie provides an excellen framework, bringing students from different fields together - during the course sessions, but also enjoying together the recreational activities (especially hiking in the beautiful mountains).
Rather than focusing on a specific area of application, our goal is to get insight into the methodology of simulation. It will cover topics from applied mathematics (discretization techniques, fast solvers), computer science (efficient implementations, especially for parallel computers, visualization) and example applications (fluid mechanics or structural mechanics, e.g.)
To have maximum profit from our course, it is important that that you are willing to cooperate with the students from the other fields: learning about the topics that they bring into the program, but also giving a talk on a topic of your area of interest that can be understood by your (hopefully also cooperative) colleagues from other disciplines.
Stefan Zimmer, 2005-02-07, 2005-06-28
