Gerasimos Chourdakis, M.Sc.

Address:

Technische Universität München

Informatik 5

Boltzmannstr. 3

85748 Garching b. München

Office:

MI 02.05.060

Email:

Phone:

(089) 289 18 600

Please note that it is usually easier to reach me via email.

Fax:

(089) 289 18 607

Office Hours:

By arrangement

Other pages:

ORCID iD, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, GitHub, LRZ GitLab

Background

• Doctoral candidate, TUM Graduate School - CeDoSIA
• Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at TUM SCCS since April 2018
• M.Sc. in Computational Science and Engineering, Technical University of Munich, 2017
• Diploma in Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 2014
• From Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Note: I frequently use the easier (but unofficial) form of my name "Gerasimos" → "Gerasimakis" → "Makis".

Research interests

• Multi-physics, black-box coupling
• Geometric multi-scale modeling (1D-3D, 2D-3D coupling)
• Fluid-fluid, multi-model coupling
• Fluid-structure interaction (FSI)
• Conjugate heat transfer (CHT)
• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Research software engineering, software sustainability

Projects

• Doctoral project titled "Flexible Algorithms and Software for Complex Geometric Multi-Scale Coupling" (2018 - today)

• Project ATHLET-preCICE, together with GRS (6/2019 - today)

• Co-developer of preCICE, a free/open-source solver coupling library for multi-physics simulations with long history and users in several countries. As this project grows and targets users outside our research group, I am also interested in good software engineering practices, as part of the project preDOM. (2017 - today)

Other activities

• Organization of the preCICE Workshop 2020

• Organizational support for KONWIHR (9/2018 - today)

• Organization of the SCCS Colloquium (1/2019 - today)

• Registered first aider / first responder for SCCS (7/2019 - today)

Student Projects

If you are interested in a student project (Bachelor's or Master's Thesis or anything else), please contact me directly. I am mostly working with preCICE, for which you can also see the page Student Projects with preCICE. See also the pages of my colleagues Benjamin Rüth, Frédéric Simonis, and Benjamin Uekermann, as well as the Student Projects at our chair.

Do you want to know what other students are working on in our chair? You are warmly encouraged to attend their presentations at the SCCS Colloquium! Come to get ideas, meet your potential supervisor, or to learn from the style of others for your own presentation.

Open student projects

• HiWi: Part-time web developer for software project website - precice.org (m/w/d)
• "Helicopter Fluid-Structure Coupling using preCICE" (Master's Thesis or IDP), in collaboration with Amine Abdelmoula (TUM Institute of Helicopter Technology). This is a follow-up of Qunsheng Huang's Master's Thesis. More details will be announced soon.

Running student projects

• Francisco Espinosa is doing his Master's Thesis for M.Sc. CSE. The working title of his thesis is "A flexible approach to 2D-3D coupling of a Shallow-Water Equation solver to OpenFOAM".

• David Schneider is a student assistant for the preDOM project. He developed features of the OpenFOAM adapter for preCICE, he developed the deal-ii adapter for preCICE, and he set up tutorial simulation cases for preCICE. He is now further assisting in the development of the OpenFOAM adapter for preCICE.

• Konrad Eder is a student assistant for the ATHLET-preCICE project. He is assisting in the development of the ATHLET adapter for preCICE, in bringing preCICE to Windows, and in testing preCICE.

Finished student projects

• Moritz Gnisia was a student assistant. He modernized the code framework of the course "CFD Lab" and developed a CI infrastructure and auxiliary tools for the course.

• Michel Takken was a student assistant for the preDOM project. He updated the Code_Aster adapter for preCICE for preCICE v2 and Code_Aster 14, he wrote documentation, prepared a tutorial simulation case, as well as a system test with Code_Aster and OpenFOAM.

• Qunsheng Huang did his Master's Thesis for M.Sc. CSE. The title of his thesis was "Helicopter Fluid-Structure Coupling using preCICE". This work was in collaboration with the TUM Chair of Helicopter Technology.

• Qunsheng Huang was also a student assistant. After finishing his thesis, he developed tests for the OpenFOAM adapter for preCICE.

• Ayman Noureldin did his Master's Thesis for M.Sc. CSE. The title of his thesis was "A Master-Slave Approach for Multi-Phase Fluid-Fluid Coupling of OpenFOAM and ATHLET". This work was in collaboration with the GRS institute in Garching.

• Dmytro Sashko was a student assistant for the preDOM project. He further developed the web-based preCICE tutorial and he worked on testing, packaging, and distributing preCICE.

Teaching

Summer semester 2019/20

• Computational Fluid Dynamics practical course (Master-Praktikum: Scientific Computing) (Moodle)
• Scientists and Ethics seminar (Moodle)

Winter semester 2019/20

• Advanced Programming tutorial (Moodle)
• Matlab Introduction interactive lecture & tutorial
• Scientists and Ethics seminar (Moodle)

Summer semester 2018/19

• Computational Fluid Dynamics practical course (Master-Praktikum: Scientific Computing)
• Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction master's seminar
• Ferienakademie course: "Let's Play! Simulated Physics for Games"

Winter semester 2018/19

• Advanced Programming tutorial (Moodle)
• Matlab Introduction interactive lecture & tutorial (Moodle: Scientific Computing Lab)
• Assisted in the seminar Next Generation High-Performance Computing.
• Assisted in the seminar Scientists and Ethics.

Summer semester 2017/18

• Assisted in the practical course Computational Fluid Dynamics.
• Assisted in the seminar Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction.