SC Seminar: Simon Gottschalk
Simon Gottschalk, Fraunhofer ITWM Title: The One-shot method for optimization problems with underlying PDEs Abstract: Optimization problems with underlying PDEs appear in disciplines like geophysics, medical imaging, atmospheric science and aerodynamic shape design. Conventional approaches -known from the nonlinear optimization … Continue reading
SC Seminar: Domenico Quagliarella
Prof. Domenico Quagliarella, Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA) Title: Risk measures and optimization under uncertainty Abstract: Many industrial optimization processes must take account of the stochastic nature of the system and processes to be designed or re-designed and have to … Continue reading
SC Seminar: Andrea Walther
Prof. Andrea Walther, Institut für Mathematik, Universität Paderborn Title: On the optimization of piecewise smooth functions Abstract: This talk presents the abs-normal form for piecewise linear functions, which can be used for the optimization of piecewise linear function. Such an … Continue reading
SC Seminar: Jonas Kusch
Jonas Kusch, RWTH Aachen/TU Kaiserslautern Title: Frequency Based Preconditioning And Smoothing for Shape Optimization Abstract: In this talk, a preconditioner for shape optimization in the case of small Reynolds numbers will be derived. The preconditioner mimics the local Hessian behavior, … Continue reading
SC Seminar: Gang Wang
Gang Wang, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Fluid Dynamics/School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China Title: Flow Fluctuation Analysis Based on the Unsteady Flow Simulation with Variable Physical Time Stepping Scheme Abstract: An analysis technique on flow fluctuation … Continue reading
SC Seminar: Qiqi Wang
Prof. Qiqi Wang, MIT, Cambridge, USA Title: Design in Chaos — the Least Squares Shadowing technique for Sensitivity Analysis of Chaotic High Fidelity Simulations Chaos is widespread in high fidelity simulations of engineering and natural systems. These systems, including turbulent … Continue reading
SC Seminar: Stefan Becker and Christoph Scheit
Prof. Stefan Becker, Christoph Scheit, Lehrstuhl für Prozessmaschinen und Anlagentechnik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Title: Aeroacoustics of Small Vertical Wind Turbines: Simulation and Experiment Abstract: The contents of the presentation is to validate two different numerical methods for noise prediction of the … Continue reading
SC Seminar: Olaf Frommann
Prof. Olaf Frommann, Hochschule Bremen, Institut für Aerospace Technologie Title: About the Dilemma of Contradictory Goals in Multi-Objective Optimization Abstract: Multi-Objective Optimization often leads to the problem of dealing with competing and contradictory goals, that need to be satisfied. The … Continue reading
SC Seminar: Praveen C
Dr. Praveen C., TIFR Center for Applicable Mathematics Title: Well-balanced discontinuous Galerkin method for Euler equations with gravity Abstract: We discuss a well-balanced discontinuous Galerkin scheme for compressible Euler equations with gravity. The DG scheme is based on nodal discontinuous … Continue reading
SC Seminar: Charles Swanson
Prof. Charles Swanson, NASA Langley Research Center and Old Dominion University, USA Title: Design of RK/Implicit Schemes for Solving the Navier-Stokes Equations Abstract: The design and construction of accurate, robust, and efficient solution algorithms for solving the Navier-Stokes equations requires … Continue reading