Welcome to CATS at RWTH Aachen University. The chair is directed by Prof. Marek Behr since 2004.

The chair is affiliated with:

• Center for Computational Engineering Science (CCES)
• Department of Mechanical Engineering (FK4)
• Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences (FK1)
• Jülich Aachen Research Alliance - Simulation Sciences (JARA-SIM)

Announcements

• German Research School for Simulation Sciences GmbH is being set up in Aachen and Jülich.
• Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in CES (AICES) graduate school operates since late 2006.
• Excellence Initiative portal launched with an AICES video entry.
• A PetaFLOPS machine has been installed at the Jülich Supercomputer Center in May 2009.
• Current teaching in Winter Semester 2009/10:
  • CES Mechanics I for CES 1st semester
  • Finite Elements in Fluids for CES, M'Bau and graduate students
  • Numerical Methods for Fluid-Structure Interaction for CES, M'Bau and graduate students
  • CES seminar series
• Recent teaching in Summer Semester 2009:
  • CES Mechanics II for CES 2nd semester
  • Parallel Computing for Comp. Mech. for CES, SiSc, M'Bau and graduate students
  • Extended Finite Element Methods for CES, M'Bau and graduate students
  • Simulation Methods in Mechanical Engineering together with AVT.PT
  • CES seminar series
• We're organizing workshops and invited minisymposia at:
  • Biofluids and Coupled Problems in Biomechanics at WCCM 2010 in Sydney
  • Advances in Computational Methods for Free and Moving Boundary Problems at IWACOM-II in Yokohama
• Current jobs:
  • Scientific co-worker at TU München in collaborative project with CATS
  • Doctoral and Master programs in the AICES graduate school
  • Doctoral and Master programs of the German Research School for Simulation Sciences
  • Thesis projects and HiWi positions, e.g., with Voith Hydro and several in the research area of computational aeroelasticity