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Professur für Ingenieur-Mathematik (Prof. Gerdts)
sven-joachim.kimmerle@unibw.de |
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Sven-Joachim Kimmerle
Office hours: by arrangement (at short notice)
Research interests:
- Mathematical Modelling: Multibody systems coupled with elasticity, PEM fuel cells / Nanochannels / Hydrogen electrolysis / Nanobubbles, Phase transitions (Sharp-Interface models / Macroscopic equations)
- Analysis: Coupled ODE-PDE systems, Mathematical elasticity, Free boundary problems, Homogenization of PDE / Asymptotic analysis
- Optimization: Optimal control of PDE, Optimal control of ODE-PDE systems, Shape optimization, Machine learning
- Statistics: Data science, Influence of stochastic perturbations
- Physics of Failure, Reliability, FIT-rates (FIDES standard), Automotive Networks
- Numerics: Simulation of fully coupled ODE-PDE systems / PDE systems, Efficient simulation of large systems of differential equations, Free boundaries and contact
Teaching:
Lectures:
- "Numerical Optimization" for "Scientific Computing" and "Computer Science" in Summer Term 2020 (University of Applied Sciences Munich), live online lecture and practical course
- "Mathematical Methods in Engineering" for "Aerospace Engineering" in WT 2020 (UniBw Munich), lecture & tutorials
- "Linear and Nonlinear Optimization (BSc)" for "Mathematical Engineering" and "Aerospace Engineering" in HT 2019, HT 2020 (UniBw Munich)
- "Numerics - Advanced chapters" for "Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences" in FT 2017 (UniBw Munich)
- "Mathematical Modelling" for "Mathematical Engineering", "Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences" and "Aerospace Engineering" in FT 2017 (UniBw Munich)
- "Introduction Finite Element Methods" for "Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences" in WT 2017 (UniBw Munich)
- "Statistics" for "Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences" in WT 2017 (UniBw Munich)
- "Programming" for "Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences" in HT 2016, HT 2017 (UniBw Munich)
- "Finite Elements" for "Mathematical Engineering" in WT 2013, WT 2015 (UniBw Munich), lecture & tutorials
- "Mathematical Methods II" for ecomic and social sciences (in English), Autumn term 2010 (U Ottawa)
- "Calcul différentiel et intégral pour les sciences de la vie II" in French (Calculus II for life sciences), Winter term 2010 (U Ottawa)
Teaching support and coordination (UniBw Munich listed only):
- "Mathematics (for Engineers) 1, 2 & 3" in HT 2011 & WT 2012, HT 2013 & WT 2014, HT 2014 & WT 2015, HT 2015 & WT 2016
- "Mathematical Methods in Aerospace Engineering" in WT 2011
- "Mathematical Methods in Engineering" in WT 2018
- "Functional Analysis" in FT 2016
- Laboratory course "Optimal control" in FT 2011, FT 2012
- "Optimization (MSc INF)" in FT 2012
- "Introduction to Optimization (BSc ME)" in FT 2013, FT 2014
- "Linear and Nonlinear Optimization (BSc LRT)" in HT 2012
- "Introduction into Numerics" in WT 2014
Further duties and responsibilities:
- Mentoring of master and bachelor theses and student projects at:
Institute for Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing (LRT-1). - Cooperation with projects of LRT-1: e.g. Munich Aerospace
Personal information:
- Oct 2018 - : Research & Development, Physical Software Solutions (spin-off), Ottobrunn
- Jan 2020: Venia legendi (title "Privatdozent") for Mathematics, issued by department LRT at Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
- Jun 2019: Facultas docendi (together with "Habilitationsurkunde") for Mathematics, issued by department LRT at Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany, since then external lecturer at Institute for Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing (LRT-1)
- May 2019: Final presentation of Habilitation Thesis "Optimal Control of Coupled Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations", Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany; Mentors: M. Gerdts, T. Apel (both UniBw M), R. Herzog (TU Chemnitz)
- Feb 2011 - Sep 2018: Research Associate at the Chair of M. Gerdts, Institute for Mathematics and Computer Application (LRT-1), Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
- Jul 2016 - Dec 2017: Interim Professor for Mathematics and Computer Sciences in Engineering, Institute for Mathematics and Computer Sciences in Civil Engineering (BAU-1), Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
- 2010: Part-time Professor and Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Industrial project with Toyota), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Canada (Mentors: A. Novruzi, U Ottawa; P. Berg, UOIT Oshawa)
- Sep 2009: Defense of Doctoral Thesis "Macroscopic Diffusion Models for Precipitation in Crystalline Gallium Arsenide", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (Supervisors: B. Niethammer, HU Berlin/U Oxford, W. Dreyer, WIAS Berlin)
- Oct 2004 - Dec 2009: Research Assistant, DFG Research Center MATHEON "Mathematics for Key Technologies" (Industrial cooperation with Freiberger Compound Materials) / HU Berlin, Germany
- Sep 2004: Diploma in Mathematics with minor in Theoretical Physics, Universität Heidelberg, Germany (Supervisor: W. Jäger)
- Jun 2002: "Maîtrise de mathématiques classiques", Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot, France
- Oct 2000: Vordiplom (Pre-degree) in Mathematics and Vordiplom in Physics, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Publications:
Refereed publications:
- Kimmerle, S.-J., Gerdts, M., Herzog, R.: An Optimal Control Problem for a Rotating Elastic Crane-Trolley-Load System. Link to preprint version. In: 9th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Vienna, Austria, February 21-23, 2018, IFAC-PapersOnLine 51/2 (2018), 272-277, DOI 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.03.047 .
- Kimmerle, S.-J., Gerdts, M., Herzog, R.: Optimal Control of an Elastic Crane-Trolley-Load System - A Case Study for Optimal Control of Coupled ODE-PDE Systems (link to preprint version, extended by 2 appendices). MCMDS 24(2) (2018), 182-206, DOI 10.1080/13873954.2017.1405046.
- Webert, J.-H., Gill, P. E., Kimmerle, S.-J., Gerdts, M.: A Study of Structure-exploiting SQP Algorithms for an Optimal Control Problem with Coupled Hyperbolic and Ordinary Differential Equation Constraints. Link to preprint version. DCDS-S 11(6) (2018), 1259-1282, DOI 10.3934/dcdss.2018071.
- Sverdrup, K., Kimmerle, S.-J., Berg, P.: Computational Investigation of the Stability and Dissolution of Nanobubbles. Appl. Math. Model. 49 (2017), 199-219, DOI 10.1016/j.apm.2017.05.006.
- Kimmerle, S.-J., Gerdts, M.: Necessary optimality conditions and a semi-smooth Newton approach for an optimal control problem of a coupled system of Saint-Venant equations and ordinary differential equations, Pure Appl. Funct. Anal. 1(2) (2016), 231-256.
- Gerdts, M., Horn, S., Kimmerle, S.-J.: Line Search Globalization of a Semismooth Newton Method for Operator Equations in Hilbert Spaces with Applications in Optimal Control, J. Ind. Manag. Optim. 13(1) (2017), 47-62, DOI 10.3934/jimo.2016003.
- Gerdts, M., Kimmerle, S.-J.: Numerical Optimal Control of a Coupled ODE-PDE Model of a Truck with a Fluid Basin. In: Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 2015, Suppl., 515-524, DOI 10.3934/proc.2015.0515.
- Kimmerle, S.-J.: Modelling, Simulation and Stability of Free Surface and Bulk Nanobubbles in Hydrogen Electrolysis (link to preprint version). In: 8th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Vienna, Austria, February 18-20, 2015, IFAC-PapersOnLine 48/1 (2015), 621-626, DOI 10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.05.046 .
- Kimmerle, S.-J., Ladipo, K., Novruzi, A., Berg, P.: Contact Resistance at PEM-PEM Interfaces: Charged Fluid Flow Between Nanochannels, ECS Transactions 59(1) (2014), 145-159, DOI 10.1149/05901.0145ecst.
- Berg, P., Kimmerle, S.-J., Novruzi, A.: Modeling, Shape Analysis and Computation of the Equilibrium Pore Shape near a PEM-PEM intersection (link to preprint version, arXiv 1405.7309), J. Math. Anal. Appl. 410(1) (2014), 241-256, DOI 10.1016/j.jmaa.2013.08.012 (Note this originally published version has typos in eq. (29), (64) and (72), see the preprint version).
- Kimmerle, S.-J., Berg, P., Novruzi, A.: An Electrohydrodynamic Equilibrium Shape Problem for Polymer Electrolyte Membranes in Fuel Cells (link to preprint version). In: System Modeling and Optimization, 25th IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization (CSMO 2011), Berlin, Germany, September 12-16, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Heidelberg. IFIP Adv. Inf. Commun. Technol. 391 (2013), 387-396. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com: DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-36062-6_39.
- Kimmerle, S.-J.: Optimal Control of Mean Field Models for Phase Transitions. In: 7th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Vienna, Austria, February 14-17, 2012, IFAC Proceedings Volumes 45/2 (2012), 1107-1111, DOI 10.3182/20120215-3-AT-3016.00196.
- Ladipo, K., Berg, P., Kimmerle, S.-J., Novruzi, A.: Effects of Radially-Dependent Parameters on Proton Transport in Polymer Electrolyte Nanopores, J. Chem. Phys. 134 (2011), 074103-1-12, DOI 10.1063/1.3552232.
Book:
- Kimmerle, S.-J., Kimmerle, W.: Mehrdimensionale Analysis und Differentialgleichungen - für Ingenieure und Physiker, 3., erw. Auflage, edition delkhofen, Deilingen, 2020.
Theses:
- Kimmerle, S.-J.: Optimal Control of Coupled Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Habilitation thesis, Universität der Bundeswehr Munich, 2018.
- Kimmerle, S.-J.: Macroscopic Diffusion Models for Precipitation in Crystalline Gallium Arsenide - Modelling, Analysis and Simulation, PhD thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2009.
- Kimmerle, S.-J.: Homogenisierung alternierender Randbedingungen bei der Poissongleichung, Diploma thesis, Universität Heidelberg, 2004.
Preprints (available on request):
- Kimmerle, S.-J.: Well-Posedness of a Coupled Quasilinear Parabolic and Elliptic Free Boundary Problem From a Model for Precipitation in Crystalline Solids.
- Kimmerle, S.-J.: A Model Problem for Optimal Control of a Parabolic PDE Fully Coupled to ODEs, 2019, accepted.
- Kimmerle, S.-J., K. Dvorsky, H.-D. Ließ, R. Avenhaus: Time to Failure under Varying Thermal Stresses, Preprint, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, 2019
- Kimmerle, S.-J., Avenhaus, R., Dvorsky, K., Ließ, H.-D.: Statistische Kenngrößen für Ausfallzeiten elektronischer Bauteile unter zeitlich veränderlichen Temperaturbelastungen. Interne Dokumentation, Physical Software Solutions, 2018.
Publications w/o peer review and technical reports (selected):
- Kimmerle, S.-J., Ließ, H.-D.: Zuverlässigkeit elektrischer Komponenten im Bordnetz: Jedes Bauteil zählt (link to preprint version), Elektronik automotive, Sonderheft 4 (2019) , 42-45.
- Kimmerle, S.-J.: Coupling Structure in an Optimal Control Problem with PDEs and ODEs. Proc. Appl. Math. Mech. 18(1) (2018), 1-2, DOI: 10.1002/pamm.201800339.
- Kimmerle, S.-J., Sverdrup, K., Berg, P.: Dynamic Equilibrium of a Coupled ODE-PDE Problem for Surface Nanobubbles, Proc. Appl. Math. Mech. 17(1) (2017), 843-844, DOI: 10.1002/pamm.201710389.
- Kimmerle, S.-J.: Modelling, Simulation and Optimization of an Elastic Structure under Moving Loads (link to preprint version), Proc. Appl. Math. Mech. 16(1) (2016), 697-698, DOI: 10.1002/pamm.201610337.
- Kimmerle, S.-J., Moritz, R.: Optimal Control of an Elastic Tyre-Damper System with Road Contact (link to preprint version), Proc. Appl. Math. Mech. 14(1) (2014), 875-876, DOI: 10.1002/pamm.201410418.
- Berg, P., Novruzi, A., Kimmerle, S.-J., Ladipo, K.: Mathematical Modelling of Ionomer/Ionomer and Ionomer/Catalyst Layer Inferfaces - Iononer/Ionomer Interface Model. Final report of an industrial research project sponsored by Toyota Motor Corporation, 2011.
- Dreyer, W., Kimmerle, S.-J.: Mean Field Diffusion Models for Precipitation in Crystalline GaAs Including Surface Tension and Bulk Stresses. Preprint No. 1475, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, 2009 / Preprint No. 698, DFG Research Center MATHEON - Mathematics for Key Technologies, Berlin, 2010.