Dipl.-Ing. Henning Sauerland
ContactSchinkelstrasse 2, 2nd floor, room 222a +49 (0)241 80 99932 |
Research
- Numerical shape optimization in die casting as a member of the cluster of excellence "Integrative Production Technology for High Wage Countries"
- Free-surface flow simulations:
- FEM with interface tracking
- XFEM - www.xfem.rwth-aachen.de
(Water droplet impinging on a shallow water surface.)
(Dam break on a structure.)
Teaching
- Simulation Methods in Mechanical Engineering, SS12
- CES Software Development Lab, WS11/12
- Simulation Methods in Mechanical Engineering, SS11
- Simulation Methods in Mechanical Engineering, SS10
- Simulation Methods in Mechanical Engineering, SS09
Offers for Bachelor-/ Master- / Diploma thesis
| Numerical Simulation of Mold Filling using the Level-Set Method (PDF) |
| Modeling of Free-surface/Two-phase Flows using the Extended Finite Element Method (PDF) |
Publications, Proceedings and Talks
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H. Sauerland and T.P. Fries, The stable XFEM for two-phase flows, Computers & Fluids, Special Issue: USNCCM Moving Boundaries, (2012) DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2012.10.017. |
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H. Sauerland and T.P. Fries, The extended finite element method applied to 3D free-surface flows, Proceedings of the 6th European Congress On Computational Methods In Applied Sciences And Engineering (ECCOMAS 2012), Vienna, September 2012. |
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H. Sauerland and T.P. Fries, 3D Free-Surface Flow Simulations with Accurate Treatment of Discontinuities Using the XFEM, 11th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Minneapolis, July 2011. |
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H. Sauerland and T.P. Fries, Two-phase flows using the XFEM: Modeling of transport phenomena on fluid interfaces, Proceedings of the 2nd ECCOMAS thematic conference on extended finite element methods, Cardiff, June 2011. |
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H. Sauerland and T.P. Fries, Modeling transport phenomena on fluid interfaces in combination with the XFEM, 16th International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems, Munich, March 2011. |
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H. Sauerland and T.P. Fries, The extended finite element method for two-phase and free-surface flows: A systematic study, Journal of Computational Physics, 230 (2011) 3369-3390. |
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S. Elgeti, H. Sauerland, L. Pauli and M. Behr, On the Usage of NURBS as Interface Representation in Free-Surface Flows, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 69 (2012) 73-87. |
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H. Sauerland and T.P. Fries, Parallelization of an extended finite element two-phase flow solver, 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney, July 2010. |
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H. Sauerland and T.P. Fries, 3D two-phase flow simulations with the extended finite element method (XFEM), Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Lisbon, June 2010. |
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H. Sauerland and T.P. Fries, Free-surface flows with the XFEM: A comparison with interface tracking in the classical FEM, Proceedings of the 1st ECCOMAS thematic conference on extended finite element methods, Aachen, September 2009. |
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H. Sauerland and T.P. Fries, Free-surface flows with the XFEM: A comparison with interface tracking in the classical FEM, 3rd GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics, Hannover, September 2009. |
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H. Sauerland, Spline approximation of the phase interface in order to determine its curvature in the context of the simulation of multiphase flows with the finite element method, Diploma thesis, Chair for Computational Analysis of Technical Systems, RWTH Aachen, September 2008. |
