Sven-Joachim Kimmerle

Dr. rer. nat. Sven-Joachim Kimmerle Scientific assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)   Building: 41/300 Room: 2307 Phone: 089/6004 - 3082 Fax: 089/6004 - 2136 sven-joachim.kimmerle_at_unibw.de

Research Interests and Work Areas:

• Modelling, in particular of phase transitions (Sharp-Interface models and macroscopic equations) and of PEM fuel cells
• Asymptotic analysis: Homogenization of PDE, Free boundary problems, Mathematical elasticity
• Optimization: Shape optimization, Optimal control
• Numerics: Efficient simulation of large systems of differential equations, Simulation of coupled PDE systems
• Teaching & Teaching support: "Höhere Mathematik 1" (Mathematics for engineers 1) in HT 2011, "Höhere Mathematik 2" (Mathematics for engineers 2) in WT 2012, "Mathematische Methoden in der Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik" (Mathematical methods in aerospace engineering)

Personal information:

• Since 2011: Scientific Assistant at the Chair LRT 1 (M. Gerdts), Institut für Mathematik und Rechneranwendung, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany

• 2010: Part-time Professor and Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Industrial project with Toyota), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Canada (Mentors: A. Novruzi, U Ottawa; P. Berg, UOIT Oshawa)
• Sep 2009: Defense of doctoral thesis "Macroscopic diffusion models for precipitation in crystalline gallium arsenide", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (Supervisors: B. Niethammer, HU Berlin/U Oxford, W. Dreyer, WIAS Berlin)
• Oct 2004 - Dec 2009: Research assistant, DFG Research Center MATHEON "Mathematics for Key Technologies" (Industrial cooperation with Freiberger Compound Materials), Berlin, Germany
• Sep 2004: Diploma in Mathematics with minor in Theoretical Physics, Universität Heidelberg, Germany (Supervisor: W. Jäger)
• Jun 2002: Maîtrise de mathématiques classiques, Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot, France
• Oct 2000: Vordiplom (Pre-degree) in Mathematics and Vordiplom in Physics, Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Recent publications:

• Kimmerle, S.-J., Berg, P., Novruzi, A.: An Electrohydrodynamic Shape Optimization Problem for Polymer Electrolyte Membranes in Fuel Cells, Proceedings of the 25th IFIP TC7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, submitted (2012).
• Kimmerle, S.-J.: Optimal Control of Mean Field Models for Phase Transitions, Proceedings of the 7th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, submitted (2011).
• Kimmerle, S.-J., Novruzi, A., Berg, P., Ladipo, K.: Ohmic resistance between interfaces of polymer electrolyte membranes with connecting nanoscale channels, submitted (2011).
• Ladipo, K., Berg, P., Kimmerle, S.-J., Novruzi, A.: Effects of radially-dependent parameters on proton transport in polymer electrolyte nanopores, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 074103-1-12, 2011.
• Kimmerle, S.-J.: Well-posedness of a coupled quasilinear parabolic and elliptic free boundary problem from a model for precipitation in crystalline solids, submitted (2010).
• Dreyer, W., Kimmerle, S.-J.: Mean field diffusion models for precipitation in crystalline GaAs including surface tension and bulk stresses. Preprint No. 1475, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, 2009 / Preprint No. 698, DFG Research Center MATHEON - Mathematics for Key Technologies, Berlin, 2010.
• Kimmerle, S.-J.: Macroscopic diffusion models for precipitaton in crystalline gallium arsenide - Modelling, analysis and simulation, PhD thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2009.