Dr. rer. nat. Benjamin Uekermann

Address:

Technische Universität München

Institut für Informatik

Boltzmannstr. 3

85748 Garching b. München

Office:

02.05.060

Email:

Phone:

(089) 289 18 600

Fax:

(089) 289 18 607

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Student Projects

If you are interested in a Bachelor/Master Thesis or whatever student project in Mathematics/Computer Science/CSE in one of my research interests just contact me and ask. See also here.

I currently look for a student (Computer Science oder CSE) for this master thesis in cooperation with MTU. GPU programming skills are required.

I am also looking for a student working on FSI with helicopters. This would be suited for an IDP or a CSE master thesis.

Research Interests

• fluid-structure interaction (FSI)
• computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• multi-physics, black-box coupling
• Jacobian-free non-linear solvers, multi-secant methods
• exa-scale computing
• immersed boundary methods, fixed grid methods for moving interfaces
• turbulence modeling
• uncertainty quantification in CFD and FSI applications

Projects

• Program Manager of SPPEXA
• Co-developer of preCICE
• ExaFSA - Exascale Simulation of Fluid-Structure-Acoustics Interaction
• IAS Focus Group: HPC - Tackling the Multi-Challenge

Publications

Volume 2018

• I.-G. Farcas, P.-C. Sarbu, H.-J. Bungartz, T. Neckel and B. Uekermann: Multilevel adaptive stochastic collocation with dimensionality reduction [BibTeX].
  In J. Garcke, D. Pflüger, C. G. Webster and G. Zhang (ed.), Sparse Grids and Applications - Miami 2016, Volume 123 of Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, p. 43––68. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
• I.-G. Farcas, B. Uekermann, T. Neckel and H.-J. Bungartz: Nonintrusive Uncertainty Analysis of Fluid-structure Interaction with Spatially Adaptive Sparse Grids and Polynomial Chaos Expansion [BibTeX].
  In SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 40(2), p. B457––B482, 2018.

Volume 2017

• B. Uekermann, H.-J. Bungartz, L. Cheung Yau, G. Chourdakis and A. Rusch: Official preCICE Adapters for Standard Open-Source Solvers [pdf] [BibTeX].
  In Proceedings of the 7th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics for Young Scientists from Academia, October 2017.
• F. Lindner, M. Mehl and B. Uekermann: Radial Basis Function Interpolation for Black-Box Multi-Physics Simulations [] [BibTeX].
  In Coupled Problems, May 2017.

Volume 2016

• B. Uekermann: The Coupling Library preCICE -- Past, Present and Future [pdf] [BibTeX].
  In A. Bode, H.-J. Bungartz and U. Rüde (ed.), Quartl, Volume 80, p. 11–20, December 2016.
• A. Atanasov, B. Uekermann, C. A. Pachajoa Mejia, H.-J. Bungartz and P. Neumann: Steady-State Anderson Accelerated Coupling of Lattice Boltzmann and Navier-Stokes Solvers [BibTeX].
  In Computation, Volume 4(4), p. 1–19. MDPI, Basel, October 2016.
• B. Uekermann: Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction on Massively Parallel Systems [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Dissertation, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, October 2016.
• H.-J. Bungartz, F. Lindner, M. Mehl, K. Scheufele, A. Shukaev and B. Uekermann: Partitioned Fluid-Structure-Acoustics Interaction on Distributed Data: Coupling via preCICE [BibTeX].
  In H.-J. Bungartz, P. Neumann and W. E. Nagel (ed.), Software for Exascale Computing -- SPPEXA 2013-2015, Volume 113 of Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, p. 239––266. Springer, Heidelberg, Berlin, September 2016.
• D. Blom, T. Ertl, O. Fernandes, S. Frey, H. Klimach, V. Krupp, M. Mehl, S. Roller, D. Sternel, B. Uekermann, T. Winter and A. van Zuijlen: Partitioned Fluid-Structure-Acoustics Interaction on Distributed Data: Numerical Results and Visualization [BibTeX].
  In H.-J. Bungartz, P. Neumann and W. E. Nagel (ed.), Software for Exascale Computing -- SPPEXA 2013-2015, Volume 113 of Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, p. 267––291. Springer, Heidelberg, Berlin, September 2016.
• M. Mehl, B. Uekermann, H. Bijl, D. Blom, B. Gatzhammer and A. van Zuijlen: Parallel Coupling Numerics for Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations [BibTeX].
  In Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Volume 71(4), p. 869––891. Elsevier, February 2016.
• D. Blom, F. Lindner, M. Mehl, K. Scheufele, B. Uekermann and A. van Zuijlen: A Review on Fast Quasi-Newton and Accelerated Fixed Point Iterations for Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation [BibTeX].
  In Y. Bazilevs and K. Takizawa (ed.), Advances in Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction and Flow Simulation of Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Cham, 2016.
• R. Haelterman, A. Bogaers, B. Uekermann, K. Scheufele and M. Mehl: Improving the performance of the partitioned QN-ILS procedure for fluid-structure interaction problems: filtering [BibTeX].
  In Computers and Structures, Volume 171, p. 9–17. Elsevier, 2016.
• H.-J. Bungartz, F. Lindner, B. Gatzhammer, M. Mehl, K. Scheufele, A. Shukaev and B. Uekermann: preCICE -- A Fully Parallel Library for Multi-Physics Surface Coupling [BibTeX].
  In Computers and Fluids, Volume 141, p. 250––258. Elsevier, 2016.

Volume 2015

• F. Lindner, M. Mehl, K. Scheufele and B. Uekermann: A Comparison of various Quasi-Newton Schemes for Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction [pdf] [BibTeX].
  In Coupled Problems, 2015.
• H.-J. Bungartz, H. Klimach, V. Krupp, F. Lindner, M. Mehl, S. Roller and B. Uekermann: Fluid-Acoustics Interaction on Massively Parallel Systems [BibTeX].
  In M. Mehl, M. Bischoff and M. Schäfer (ed.), International Workshop on Computational Engineering CE 2014 of Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. Springer, Heidelberg, Berlin, 2015.
• D. S. Blom, B. Uekermann, M. Mehl, A. van Zuijlen and H. Bijl: Multi-Level Acceleration of Parallel Coupled Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction with Manifold Mapping [BibTeX].
  In M. Mehl, M. Bischoff and M. Schäfer (ed.), International Workshop on Computational Engineering CE 2014 of Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. Springer, Heidelberg, Berlin, 2015.

Volume 2014

• B. Uekermann, B. Gatzhammer and M. Mehl: Coupling Algorithms for Partitioned Multi-Physics Simulations [BibTeX].
  In Proceedings of the Informatik 2014 Conference, September 2014.
• B. Uekermann, J. C. Cajas, B. Gatzhammer, G. Houzeaux, M. Mehl and M. Vazquez: Towards Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction on Massively Parallel Systems [pdf] [BibTeX].
  In Proceedings of WCCM XI / ECCM V / ECFD VI, July 2014.
• H.-J. Bungartz, F. Lindner, M. Mehl and B. Uekermann: A plug-and-play coupling approach for parallel multi-field simulations [BibTeX].
  In Computational Mechanics, p. 1–11. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2014.

Volume 2013

• B. Uekermann, H.-J. Bungartz, B. Gatzhammer and M. Mehl: A Parallel, Black-Box Coupling Algorithm for Fluid-Structure Interaction [pdf] [BibTeX].
  In S. Idelsohn, M. Papadrakakis and B. Schrefler (ed.), Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, COUPLED PROBLEMS 2013. eBook (http://congress.cimne.com/coupled2013/proceedings/), Stanta Eulalia, Ibiza, Spain, 2013.

Volume 2012

• B. Uekermann: Detached-Eddy Simulation for the parallel Finite Element Framework ALYA [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Diplomarbeit, Technische Universität München, May 2012.
• B. Uekermann and H. Owen: Detached Eddy Simulation with Finite Elements [pdf] [BibTeX].
  In Science and Supercomputing in Europe - research highlights 2012, 2012.

Volume 2009

• B. Uekermann: Time-implicit ODE Solver for the incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Peano [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Studienarbeit/SEP/IDP, Fakultät für Mathematik, Technische Universität München, February 2009.

Talks and Poster

Volume 2018

• G. Chourdakis, H.-J. Bungartz, L. Cheung Yau and B. Uekermann: Multi-physics simulations with OpenFOAM through preCICE [BibTeX].
  89th GAMM Annual Meeting, Munich, March 2018.
• B. Uekermann: Coupling Parallel Simulation Codes: Problems and Solutions [BibTeX].
  SIAM PP, Tokyo, March 2018.

Volume 2017

• B. Uekermann: SPPEXA -- Software for Exascale Computing [BibTeX].
  Parallel Programming Models -- Productivity and Applications (2nd Edition), Versailles, October 2017.
• B. Uekermann: Official preCICE Adapters for Standard Open-Source Solvers [BibTeX].
  GACM, Stuttgart, October 2017.
• B. Uekermann: preCICE -- A Library for Coupled Simulations on Massively Parallel Systems [BibTeX].
  LSSC, Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 2017.
• I.-G. Farcas, H.-J. Bungartz, T. Neckel and B. Uekermann: Multilevel uncertainty analysis of fluid-structure interaction simulations using adaptive sparse grids [BibTeX].
  International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems, Sapienza-Universita di Roma, Italy, April 2017.
• B. Uekermann: preCICE -- A Library for Coupled Simulations on Massively Parallel Systems [BibTeX].
  Finite Elements in Fluids, Rome, April 2017.
• P.-C. Sarbu, I.-G. Farcas, H.-J. Bungartz, T. Neckel and B. Uekermann: Adaptive Sparse Grids Interpolation Techniques for Multilevel Stochastic Collocation in Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems [BibTeX].
  SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Hilton Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March 2017.

Volume 2016

• B. Uekermann: Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction on Distributed Data [BibTeX].
  ECCOMAS Congress, Crete Island, June 2016.
• K. Scheufele, M. Mehl and B. Uekermann: Robust Quasi-Newton Methods for the Coupling of Partitioned FSI Simulations [BibTeX].
  ECCOMAS Congress, Crete Island, June 2016.
• P. Neumann, B. Uekermann and A. Atanasov: Steady-State and Transient Coupling of Lattice Boltzmann and Navier-Stokes Solvers [BibTeX].
  ESCO, Pilsen, June 2016.
• I.-G. Farcas, H.-J. Bungartz, B. Uekermann and T. Neckel: High-dimensional Uncertainty Quantification of Fluid-structure Interaction [pdf] [BibTeX].
  SIAM UQ 16, Lausanne, April 2016.
• B. Uekermann: Porting the Coupling Library preCICE to Distributed Data [BibTeX].
  SuperMUC Status and Results Workshop, München, April 2016.
• B. Uekermann: Partitioned Multi-Physics on Distributed Data via preCICE [BibTeX].
  SPPEXA - Annual Plenary Meeting, München, January 2016.

Volume 2015

• P. Neumann, A. Atanasov and B. Uekermann: Domain Decomposition for Lattice Boltzmann Methods: Adaptivity and Hybrid Lattice Boltzmann-Navier-Stokes Simulations [BibTeX].
  Eingeladener Vortrag, Universität Stuttgart, November 2015.
• F. Lindner, M. Mehl, K. Scheufele and B. Uekermann: Black-Box Coupling Algorithms for Fluid-Structure Interaction [BibTeX].
  ICERM Workshop: Numerical Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Problems and Their Applications, Brown University, Providence, September 2015.
• B. Uekermann: Black-Box Coupling for Fluid-Structure Interaction -- Algorithms and Software [BibTeX].
  CASC Seminar, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, September 2015.
• B. Uekermann: preCICE - a Library for Flexible Surface-Coupling on Massively Parallel Systems [BibTeX].
  PASC, ETH Zürich, June 2015. Co-Autoren: Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Florian Lindner, Miriam Mehl, Alexander Shukaev.
• B. Uekermann: Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction on Massively Parallel Systems [BibTeX].
  SIAM CSE, Salt Lake City, March 2015. Co-Autoren: Lindner, Florian; Mehl, Miriam;.
• B. Uekermann: A Comparison of various Quasi-Newton Schemes for Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction [BibTeX].
  ECCOMAS Coupled Problems, Venice, Italy, 2015.

Volume 2014

• V. Krupp and B. Uekermann: Towards Fluid-Acoustics Interaction on Massively Parallel Systems [BibTeX].
  3rd International Workshop on Computational Engineering CE 2014, Stuttgart, October 2014.
• B. Uekermann: Coupling Algorithms for Partitioned Multi-Physics Simulations [BibTeX].
  Informatik2014, Stuttgart, September 2014.
• B. Uekermann: Towards Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction on Massively Parallel Systems [BibTeX].
  WCCM XI / ECCM V / ECFD VI, Barcelona, July 2014.
• B. Uekermann: preCICE - a Library for Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction on Massively Parallel Systems [BibTeX].
  4th European Seminar on Computing, Pilsen, June 2014.
• B. Uekermann: Inter- and Intra-Solver Parallelism for Coupled Multi-Physics Simulations [BibTeX].
  28th International Conference on Supercomputing, München, June 2014.

Volume 2013

• B. Uekermann: Parallel coupling algorithms for partitioned fluid-structure interaction [BibTeX].
  ECCOMAS Coupled Problems 2013, Ibiza, Spain, June 2013. Co-Autoren: Bungartz, Hans-Joachim; Gatzhammer, Bernhard; Mehl, Miriam;.
• B. Uekermann: Parallel coupling algorithms for partitioned fluid-structure interaction [BibTeX].
  ECCOMAS Marine 2013, Hamburg, Deutschland, May 2013. Co-Autoren: Bungartz, Hans-Joachim; Gatzhammer, Bernhard; Mehl, Miriam;.
• B. Uekermann: A Parallel Black-Box Interface Algorithm for Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction [BibTeX].
  GAMM 2013 Conference, Novi Sad, Serbien, March 2013. Co-Autoren: Bungartz, Hans-Joachim; Gatzhammer, Bernhard; Mehl, Miriam;.

Volume 2012

• B. Uekermann and H. Owen: Detached-Eddy Simulation with Finite Elements [BibTeX].
  Transnational Access Meeting of the HPC-Europa2 project, Amsterdam, SARA, June 2012.

Teaching

• Master-Praktikum: Scientific Computing - Computational Fluid Dynamics SS2018
• Seminar Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction
• Parallel Numerics Tutorial WS2017/18
• Turbulent Flow Simulation on HPC-Systems WS2016/17
• Next Generation High Performance Computing WS2016/17
• Parallel Numerics Tutorial WS2016/17
• Seminar Uncertainty Quantification SS2016
• Master-Praktikum: Scientific Computing - Computational Fluid Dynamics SS2016
• Scientific Computing Lab WS 2015/16
• Seminar Uncertainty Quantification SS2015
• Master-Praktikum: Scientific Computing - Computational Fluid Dynamics SS2015
• Scientific Computing Lab WS 2014/15
• PSE Molekulardynamik WS 2014/15
• Seminar Uncertainty Quantification SS2014
• Master-Praktikum: Scientific Computing - Computational Fluid Dynamics SS2014
• Scientific Computing Lab WS 2013/14
• CSE Seminar Fluid-Structure Interaction SS2013
• Master-Praktikum: Scientific Computing - Computational Fluid Dynamics SS2013

Students

Volume 2017

• M. Zellner: Evaluation of driver models using a suitable vehicle model in an existing simulation framework [BibTeX].
  Master's thesis, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, December 2017.
• G. Chourdakis: A general OpenFOAM adapter for the coupling library preCICE [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Master's thesis, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, October 2017.
• M. Zintl: Rekonstruktion von Flugzuständen aus ADS-B-Daten [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Bachelor's thesis, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, August 2017.

Volume 2016

• S. V. Joshi: Adaptive Mesh Refinement in OpenFOAM with Quantified Error Bounds and Support for Arbitrary Cell-types [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Master's thesis, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, December 2016.
• L. Cheung Yau: Conjugate Heat Transfer with the Multiphysics Coupling Library preCICE [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Master's thesis, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, December 2016.
• M. Carminati: Design Exploration of Variable Geometry Radial Turbines with respect to Oscillating Pressure Excitations by using Sparse Grid Interpolation [BibTeX].
  Master's thesis, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, May 2016.
• A. Rusch: Extending SU2 to Fluid-Structure Interaction via preCICE [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Bachelor's thesis, Munich School of Engineering, April 2016.

Volume 2015

• A. Rusch: Machbarkeitsanalyse zur Fluid-Struktur-Interaktionsfähigkeit des CFD-Codes SU2 [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Studienarbeit/SEP/IDP, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, November 2015.
• K. Tsiamoura: Uncertainty Quantification in Tsunami Simulation [BibTeX].
  Studienarbeit/SEP/IDP, Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, November 2015. Interdisciplinary Project.
• V. Mikerov: A Fixed-Grid Flow Solver for Fluid-Structure Interaction with the Coupling Library preCICE [BibTeX].
  Master's thesis, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, July 2015.
• A. K. Shukaev: A Fully Parallel Process-to-Process Intercommunication Technique for preCICE [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Master's thesis, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, June 2015.
• A. Köhler: Controlling a Toggle Switch -- Stochastic Modeling of Cell Populations [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Master's thesis, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, June 2015.
• I.-G. Farcas: High Dimensional Uncertainty Quantification of Fluid-Structure Interaction [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Master's thesis, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, 2015.
• K. Scheufele: Robust Quasi-Newton Methods for Partitioned Fluid-Structure Simulations [pdf] [BibTeX].
  Master's thesis, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart, 2015.

Volume 2014

• I.-G. Farcas: Comparison of Numerical Methods in Uncertainty Quantification [BibTeX].
  In Proceedings of the Informatik 2014 Conference, September 2014.
• M. Fabry: Design and implementation of a flow rate solver for the V-Hab Life Support System Simulation [BibTeX].
  Diplomarbeit, Fakultät für Mathematik, Technische Universität München, 2014.