Research Focus

Topics

Efficient Numerical Algorithms

• High-dimensional numerics – Sparse Grids
• Fast iterative solvers – multi-level methods, preconditioners
• Adaptive, octree-based grid generation
• Space-filling curves
• Numerical linear algebra
• Numerical algorithms for image processing

Parallel & High-Performance Computing

• HW-aware numerical programming
• Parallelisation – MPI, OpenMP, hybrid; load balancing, scalability
• Grid Computing

Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Discretisation and algorithms on adaptive Cartesian grids
• Fluid-structure interaction

Fields of Application in Simulation

• Traffic
• Computational Finance
• Molecular dynamics
• Quantum chemistry

Integration of Simulation Tasks

• Problem solving environments
• Octree-based approaches