Last week, the IMCS participated in the 36th edition of the Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium, which was held this year on tour in Leibnitz, Styria.

The 10th GACM colloquium in Vienna gathered multiple researches to present and discuss their work in fields of digital twinning, machine learning, and model order reduction in engineering and science.

Yesterday, Monday, 04.09.2023, the doctoral defense of Nora Hagmeyer took place.

On August 17, the annual institute excursion of IMCS led its employees to Inzell. In a relaxed atmosphere, everyone enjoyed a delightful round of soccer golf at the Soccerpark, which brought about cheerful spirits. Following this, the group had lunch at Lindlbauer-Kaiserschmarrn Café, where a hearty Kaiserschmarrn awaited the participants, providing the energy for the rest of the day.

The chair of IMCS was again invited to participate in the “FE ohne Schnee” event this year, which took place in Kleinwalsertal. Our postdoc Ivo Steinbrecher was able to present its work on mixed-dimensional modeling.

The first edition of the newly introduced institute barbecue took place yesterday at the Hollerner See in the best weather and completely satisfied all the guests present.

On Wednesdy the 5th of July Philipp Zilk was awarded with the UKIE SIAM Student Talk Prize for his outstanding presentation at the 29th Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference

We are pleased to announce that IMCS made significant contributions at the 7th International Conference on Computational Contact Mechanics (ICCCM23) at Politecnico di Torino, with Prof. Alexander Popp as a co-organizer.

In the week of July 3-7, 2023, Thomas Apel was a guest of Serge Nicaise at the University Polytechnique Hauts de France in Valenciennes, France.

The IMCS participated with the exhibition "Mathematics to touch" at the open day in our university and attracted numerous interested people.

Two members of the IMCS contributed to the 11th International Conference on Isogeometric Analysis (IGA 2023) in Lyon.

On June 15 and 16, 2023, the fourth meeting of the doctoral student network was held on the campus of HSU/UniBw H, in which the two Universities of the Bundeswehr cooperate in research on the digitization of bridges.

On June 19, 2023, Dr.-Ing. Fabian Key from the Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics at the Vienna University of Technology presented on "Uncertainty Quantification with Surrogate Models for Plastics Flow in Manufacturing Engineering" as part of the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) research colloquium. The subsequent discussion and Q&A session confirmed the great interest of the audience members in the exciting talk.

Our colleagues Max Firmbach and Dr.-Ing. Matthias Mayr have attended the Xth International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, which was held in Chania/Crete, Greece on June 5-7,2023, and have presented research findings from IMCS.

In this preprint, we propose a fully coupled partitioned scheme to embed fibers (modeled by beams) into three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes flow. The discretization of the truly 1D/3D coupling constraints utilizes a mortar-type approach and a penalty regularization. We solve the coupled problem by either an Aitken acceleration scheme or by a Matrix-Free Newton-Krylov (MFNK) approach.

Two new conference proceedings contributions on "Hybrid Digital Twins: A Proof of Concept for Reinforced Concrete Beams" and "Computational challenges in mixed-dimensional beam/solid coupling" have been published in Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.

In the week from 8 to 12 May 2023, Thomas Apel was a guest in Gijón (Spain) hosted by Mariano Mateos, a renowned specialist in discretisation methods for optimisation problems with partial differential equations.

Alessandro Reali from the University of Pavia gave an inspiring talk on "Some advances in isogeometric analysis of coupled and complex problems" as part of the research colloquium Computational Science and Engineering (CSE).

IMCS co-organizes the 2023 European Trilinos User Group meeting to bring together the European user and developer community of the Trilinos project.

From March 13 to 17, our colleague Philipp Zilk was a guest of Serge Nicaise, one of the most renowned scientists in the field of theoretical and numerical analysis of partial differential equations.

On March 8, 2023, the kick-off workshop "HPC in the Bundeswehr" took place at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. Embedded in the dtec.bw-funded project "hpc.bw: Competence Platform for Software Efficiency and High Performance Computing", the workshop aimed to bring representatives of the two universities of the Bundeswehr as well as various departments of the Bundeswehr into conversation with each other and to offer an exchange forum on the possibilities and needs for high performance computing (HPC) in the Bundeswehr.

We are pleased to welcome two new members to the Institute as of March 01, 2023: Ms. Katharina Lorenz and Mr. Bishr Maradni

Sebastian Brandstäter co-organizes the minisymposium "Current Trends in Modelling and Simulation of Biological Systems: Numerics, Application and Data Integration" at the 10th GACM Colloquium in Vienna, Austria, September 10-13, 2023.

The IMCS participated for the first time this year in the Advanced International School at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, represented by our PhD student Martin Frank. Leading experts taught the still young researchers from fundamental concepts to the latest research results in the broad field of biomechanics.

IMCS participated in the "1st German Workshop on Next-Generation Software Development in Computational Mechanics", which took place in the TUM Akademiezentrum Raitenhaslach on February 1-3, 2023.

Our new article on "Scalable computational kernels for mortar finite element methods" has been published as open-access paper in Springer's Engineering with Computers.

Dr. Matthias Mayr co-organizes a minisymposium on “Iterative Methods and Preconditioners for Challenging Multiphysics Systems” at the 9th International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering to be held in Chania/Crete on June 5-7, 2023.

On December 01, 2022, Mr. Moritz Frey joined the computational simulation group (Prof. Popp).

On December 10, 2022, Professor Thomas Apel was awarded the Teaching Award for his outstanding commitment to teaching.

On November 22 and 23, 2022, the Research Days of the Simulation Group of IMCS sucessfully took place in Herrsching am Ammersee for the second time.