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IMCS at the II Advanced International School on Experiments, Modeling and Simulation in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

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.

1st German Workshop on Next-Generation Software Development in Computational Mechanics

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.

New publication on scalable computational kernels for mortar finite elements

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.

Minisymposium at Coupled Problems 2023

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.

We welcome our new employee in the simulation group

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

Prof. Dr. Thomas Apel wins the teaching award for his outstanding teaching

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

Research days 2022 of Simulation Group at Ammersee

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.

HPW.BW project meeting in Hamburg

Within the research project "hpc.bw - Competence Platform for Software Efficiency and Supercomputing", Dr. Matthias Mayr and Max Firmbach visited our project partners at the HSU/UniBw H campus in Hamburg.

Doctoral student network "Digital Bridge" in Munich

Within the framework of dtec.bw, the two universities of the Bundeswehr cooperate in research on the digitalization of bridges. To strengthen joint research and communication between the disciplines, the "Digital Bridge" doctoral student meeting took place from November 17th-19th 2022 in Munich.

Leon Eckardt obtains the Best Award for outstanding achievements

On November 10, 2022, Leon Eckardt was awarded the Air Force Troop Command's the Best Award for outstanding achievements.

NEW PREPRINT ON MIXED-DIMENSIONAL COUPLING

A new method is introduced that couples the positional and rotational degrees of freedom of Cosserat beams to the surface of solid volumes.

Scientific Exchange with INRIA Strasbourg

On Monday, October 17th, our colleague Nora Hagmeyer kicked off a collaboration with the MIMESIS group at INRIA Strasbourg with a presentation on the "Modeling of Balloon Angioplasty using Geometrically Exact Beam Theory".

Research cooperation: Critical infrastructure protection

The University of the Bundeswehr Munich and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) will henceforth conduct joint research to improve the protection of critical infrastructures.

CSE Colloquium talk by Jarkko Niiranen

Jarkko Niiranen from Aalto University gave an inspiring talk on "The mechanics of lattice-type structures: theoretical and computational modeling and experiments" as part of the research colloquium Computational Science and Engineering (CSE).

EuroTUG 2022 at UniBw M

This year's European Trilinos User Group (EuroTUG) meeting took place on September 12 - 14, 2022. After a pause of three years, the EuroTUG 2022 offered an interactive forum for Europe-based users and developers of the Trilinos project.

New publication on Mortar FEM methods in contact mechanics

Take a look at our new paper "An efficient algorithm for rigid/deformable contact interaction based on the dual mortar method".

Ten contributions to the GACM Colloquium 2022

Members of IMCS presented their contributions in various sessions: "Discretization schemes", "Biomechanics", "Data-integrated modeling and ANN", "Time-dependent problems".

Finite Element Symposium 2022 - a full success

The 35th Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium on tour in Herrsching, organized by IMCS from September 15-17, 2022, turned out to be a complete success.

Ivo Steinbrecher passes his PhD defense with highest grade

Yesterday, Monday, September 19, 2022, the first PhD defense in the CompSim group of IMCS took place.

New Paper on Multigrid Solvers

Our new paper on algebraic multigrid methods for semi-structured grids has been published in the SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing.

Preliminary program of the Finite Element Symposium 2022

The preliminary program for the "35th Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium on tour in Herrsching" organized by the IMCS in Herrsching, Germany, September 15-17, 2022, is now available.

EuroTUG 2022

IMCS organizes the 2022 European Trilinos User Group meeting to bring together the European user and developer community of the Trilinos project.

Successful PhD defense of Volker Kempf with highest grade

Yesterday, Monday, August 22, 2022, the oral PhD defense of Volker Kempf took place.

Nine Contributions to GAMM 2022

Members of IMCS presented their contributions in the sessions Biomechanics, Coupled Problems, Numerical methods of differential equations, Scientific computing, and Structural Mechanics.

Excursion 2022

The IMCS team goes to "Starnberger See" on 02.08.2022 for the annual excursion. In bright sunshine, the IMCS team spends the day together at "Starnberger See". In summery temperatures, the team was able to relax with a short hike and soak up a few hours of sunshine before the conference preparations will be completed in the coming weeks.

IMCS at FE ohne Schnee

For the first time, IMCS was invited to participate in this year's FE im Schnee event and was able to present its research in contact mechanics and mixed-dimensional modeling. The event series was initiated by Professor Ramm, Professor Stein and Professor Wunderlich to support the networking and exchange of ideas between the participating research groups of different chairs and institutes in the field of (structural) mechanics from Germany and Austria.

Leon Eckardt wins study prize for outstanding master's thesis

Last Saturday, June 24, 2022, Leon Eckardt, who is currently an external PhD student at IMCS, was awarded the study prize of the Friends of the University for his outstanding master thesis on the topic "Berechnung von Eigenschwingformen von Platten mittels Isogeometrischer Analysis".

CSE Colloquium talk on "Numerical Design of Engineering Components and their Production Processes"

On June 22, 2022, the second talk of the research colloquium Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) organized by Professors Apel, Brünig, Kiendl and Popp took place.

New Open Access Publication on Fluid-Beam Interaction

The article has successfully passed the peer review process and has been published by the international journal Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences in an Open Access format. This publication proposes a novel computationally efficient mixed-dimensional embedded finite element approach for the coupling of one-dimensional geometrically exact beam equations to a three-dimensional background fluid mesh, referred to as fluid-beam interaction (FBI).

IMCS @ ECCOMAS @ OSLO, Norway

Ivo Steinbrecher and Max von Danwitz present new research results at the "8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering" (ECCOMAS)-Congress.