Professor Alexander Popp represented IMCS at the 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 2024), held from July 21-26, 2024, in Vancouver, Canada.

IMCS researchers Sebastian Brandstätter and Moritz Frey visited Prague and Pilsen last week, marking a significant step towards enhancing international collaborations within the COMET project.

Last week, the IMCS took part in the Summer School "Isogeometric Analysis: Theory, Applications, and New Trends".

On Monday, July 01, 2024, the second edition of the annual IMCS Institute barbecue took place.

Last week, the IMCS took part in the 10th edition of the International Conference on Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics (CMAM-10), which was held in Bonn this year.

Ms. Dharini Balachandran started as a new co-worker on June 3rd.

In this new preprint, we investigate fast-to-evaluate surrogate modeling techniques for creating a hybrid digital twin of a steel-reinforced concrete beam.

Twelve members of IMCS participated in this year's 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS), held in Lisbon.

Professor Thomas Apel was a guest at our sister university, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, on May 28 and 29, 2024, to discuss issues relating to research, teaching and self-administration with Professors Markus Bause and Sven Knoth and their staff.

Our newest collaborative article on creating “A model hierarchy for predicting the flow in stirred tanks with physics-informed neural networks” has been published in the journal Advances in Computational Science and Engineering.

At the end of this month, the IMCS is saying goodbye to its longest-serving employee Venant Habiyambere. After 35 years (!) at the UniBw, the technical employee is taking his well-deserved retirement. To mark the occasion, Venant hosted a small retirement party at the institute yesterday with home-made African specialties.

Our new article titled "Solving forward and inverse problems of contact mechanics using physics-informed neural networks" has been published as an open access paper in Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences.

On May 02, 2024, the third lecture of this year took place in the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) research colloquium organized by Professors Apel, Brünig, Kiendl and Popp.

The Institute for Mathematics and Computer-Aided Simulation (IMCS) once again participated in the annual conference "FE in the Snow," held in the beautiful Kleinwalsertal. The conference provides a platform for the exchange of knowledge and novel approaches in the field of the Finite Element Method and computer-aided simulation.

A new preprint coauthored by Thomas Apel deals with the discretization of an optimal control problem for a non-coercive boundary value problem.

In this new preprint, we investigate a scalable physics-based block preconditioner for mixed-dimensional models in beam-solid interaction and their application in engineering.

IMCS is taking part in this year's Heidelberg Seminar on Optimal Control from 24 February to 2 March in Haus im Ennstal.

On February 29, 2024, this year's leap year day, the second lecture of this year took place in the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) research colloquium organized by Professors Apel, Brünig, Kiendl and Popp.

In a new preprint we investigate the solution of the Laplace eigenvalue problem on circular sectors using isogeometric analysis, focusing on the influence and numerical resolution of the characteristic corner singularity.

Bavarian Minister of Internal Affairs Joachim Herrmann visits the UniBW and informs himself about the RISK.twin project.

In a new preprint, which is the result of a research collaboration with the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, we investigate the mathematical modeling and numerical discretization of lipolysis in lipid droplets.

Since February 1, 2024, Daniel Wolff has joined the Computer-based Simulation group (Prof. Popp) as a postdoc.

On February 1, 2024, the first talk of the year in the research colloquium Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) organized by Professors Apel, Brünig, Kiendl and Popp took place.

Our new article entitled "A fully coupled regularized mortar-type finite element approach for embedding one-dimensional fibers into three-dimensional fluid flow" has been published as an open-access paper in Wiley's International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

The new article "On solving elliptic obstacle problems by constant abs-linearization" has been published as open-access paper in Elsevier's Results in Control and Optimization.

Last week, from December 6th to 7th, the annual research days of the "Computer-based Simulation" group led by Prof. Popp took place for the third time in Herrsching am Ammersee

The traditional IMCS Christmas party took place yesterday, Wednesday 13 December 2023. This year's venue was the Max Munich Bowling centre in Brunnthal.

Last Saturday, the Master's ceremonies were held at our university to honour the recent graduates. The Civil Engineering and Mathematical Engineering degree programmes, where the IMCS plays an essential role in teaching, produced numerous highly qualified graduates this year.

Dr Max Winkler from TU Chemnitz was a guest at the IMCS this week and gave a talk on agent-based optimal control of pedestrian dynamics for the Colloquium Applied Mathematics.

In this preprint, we explore the ability of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to solve forward and inverse problems of contact mechanics for small deformation elasticity.