Research

Numerical methods: stabilized finite element techniques interface tracking and interface capturing rotating and translating geometries non-Newtonian and microstructured fluids shape optimization inverse problems Models of physical phenomena: blood damage and clotting colloidal aggregates computational aeroelasticity

Applications: complex flows of fluids GYRO LVAD (centrifugal blood pump) DeBakey LVAD (axial blood pump) hydraulic structures (spillways) extrusion dies wind turbines scramjets and hypersonic technologies High-performance computing: distributed-memory parallelization virtual reality

Our Near- and Far-Flung Collaborators

Center for Computational Engineering Science, RWTH Aachen University

Matteo Pasquali, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University

Matthias Heinkenschloss, Computational and Applied Math, Rice University

Fazle Hussain, Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston

Wolfgang Wall, Chair for Computational Mechanics, TU Munich

Heiko Briesen, Chair for Process Systems Engineering, TU Munich

Kazuo Kashiyama, Civil Engineering, Chuo University

Oded Gottlieb, Mechanical Engineering, Technion

Links

• Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Mechanik (Prof. Josef Ballmann) whose work in the area of aeroelasticity is being continued at CATS.
• CFD Developer
  Lots of information about tools and techniques used at CATS can still be found at the Developer site, archived from Rice University.
• CATS Publications
  Light reading for more in-depth info on applications and methods listed above.

Funded Projects

• DFG GSC 111 Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science Coordination
• DFG EXC 128 Aachen House of Production TP A-2.1
• DFG SFB 401 Transfer Project ASDMAD
• DFG SFB-TR 40 Fundamental Technologies for the Development of Future Space-Transport-System Components TP D1
• DFG GRK 1095 Aerothermodynamic Design of Scramjet Propulsion for Future Space Transport Systems TP A7, A8
• DFG SPP 1273 Colloidal Process Technology
• DFG Computation of Die Swell Behind a Complex Profile Extrusion Die Using a Stabilized Finite Element Method for Various Thermoplastic Polymers
• RWTH-FZJ-Technion Umbrella Cooperation: Modelling and Simulation of Flow-Structure Interaction and Vortex-Induced Vibration of Free and Elastically Constrained Spheroid and Elliptical Rigid Bodies in Steady Flow
• BMU Improved Prediction of Efficiency and Reliability of Large Wind Turbines Using Aeroelastic Simulations
• MicroMed Cardiovascular, Inc.
• JARA-SIM: Towards a Computational Model of Blood Flow in the Left Human Heart, Aorta and Connecting Vessels (2008–2010)
• DFG SPP 1253 Optimization with Partial Differential Equations (2006–2010)
• MUNA: Management and Minimization of Uncertainties in Computational Aerodynamics (2006–2010)
• DFG SFB 540 Model-based Experimental Analysis of Kinetic Phenomena in Fluid Multi-phase Reactive Systems TP A9 (2005–2009)
• DFG SFB 401 Modulation of Flow and Fluid-Structure Interaction at Airplane Wings TP A3, B1, B3 (2004–2008)
• NSF ITR: Novel Finite Element Techniques for Modeling of Flows of Microstructured Liquids in Complex Geometries with Free Surfaces (2003–2006)
• NSF MRI: Acquisition of a Parallel Computing Facility for Computational Engineering (2001–2004)

Affiliations

• Forum Informatik der RWTH Aachen / Virtual Reality Center Aachen