Prof. Qiqi Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA Title: The climatic butterfly effect — do numerical simulations capture the statistics of chaotic systems? Abstract: The butterfly effect is a well-known phenomenon in fluid dynamics. A small perturbation can lead … Continue reading →

PD Dr. Stefan Langer, DLR Braunschweig Title: On boundary value problems for RANS equations and two-equation turbulence models – Talk 1 Abstract: Currently, in engineering computations for high Reynolds number turbulent flows, turbulence modeling continues to be the most frequently … Continue reading →

Dr. Roy Charles Swanson, NASA Langley Research Center Title: On boundary value problems for RANS equations and two-equation turbulence models – Talk 2 Abstract: Currently, in engineering computations for high Reynolds number turbulent flows, turbulence modeling continues to be the … Continue reading →

Dr. Michael Herbst, École des Ponts ParisTech, France Title: High-throughput density-functional theory calculations: An interdisciplinary challenge Abstract: Density-functional theory (DFT) is one of the most widespread methods for simulating the quantum-chemical behaviour of electrons in matter. Applications of DFT cover … Continue reading →

Michaela Schmitt, TU Kaiserslautern Title: Recent approaches in Opacity Optimization Abstract: In the field of scientific visualization flow visualization is a long existing technique. Scientists and engineers aim to derive information from visualizations of flow data, but, less important structures … Continue reading →

Prof. Dr. Ralf Keidel, HS Worms Title: SIVERT Research Group Goals Abstract: SIVERT (a newly founded research group) aims to unlock the potential of particle therapy and pCT by improving the reliability and precision of diagnoses and therapeutic results through … Continue reading →

Mitesh Mittal, TU Kaiserslautern Title: Deep learning approaches for medical image data segmentation and classification Abstract: Deep neural networks are now the state-of-the-art machine learning models across a variety of areas, from computer vision, recommendation systems, natural language processing, and … Continue reading →

Dr. Pierluigi Piersimoni, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Norway Title: An introduction to charged particle therapy and imaging Abstract: Particle therapy, also known as hadrontherapy, particularly with proton beam, has seen an increased interest in the last … Continue reading →

Guillermo Suárez, Chair for Scientific Computing (SciComp), TU Kaiserslautern Title: Turbulence Modeling: An inverse problem Abstract: The numerical simulation of turbulence using the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations by considering Boussinesq’ eddy viscosity assumption is a well established mathematical model in … Continue reading →

Rohit Pochampalli, Chair for Scientific Computing (SciComp), TU Kaiserslautern Title: New Approaches in Data Driven Turbulence Modeling. Abstract: RANS equations combined with turbulence models perform adequately at lower computational cost than high fidelity methods. One equation turbulence models such as … Continue reading →