The IMCS participated in the GAMM Workshop on Numerical Analysis, which was held from November 13–15 in Augsburg.

On November 4, 2024, Mr. Thomas Richter delivered a lecture on the topic "Modeling and Numerical Analysis of Sea Ice" as part of the Applied Mathematics Colloquium.

On November 14, 2024, the fourth lecture of this year took place in the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) research colloquium organized by Professors Apel, Brünig, Kiendl and Popp.

Join us! We are offering four fully-funded PhD/research assistant positions at our institute, each funded at TVöD E13 (100%).

On October 17th and 18th 2024, the7th meeting of the PhD student network "Digital Bridge" was held on the campus of UniBw M.

Our new article on “Isogeometric analysis of the Laplace eigenvalue problem on circular sectors: Regularity properties and graded meshes” was recently published in the journal Computers and Mathematics with Applications.

Meeting on sustainable research software development with colleagues from all over Germany

Our new article on “Non-coercive Neumann boundary control problems” was recently published in the journal Results in Mathematics.

IMCS is proud to announce that Professor Alexander Popp has been appointed as Associate Editor for the prestigious Springer journal Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences (AMSES).

On September 17th and 18th, the first dtec.bw Jahrestagung took place on the campus of the UniBw Munich, which was intended to emphasise the visibility and relevance of the 68 dtec.bw projects.

The IMCS took part in the 37th edition of the Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium, which was held in Chemnitz this year for the first time in three years. The symposium provided an excellent platform for numerous scientific discussions on the finite element method and other computer-aided methods for solving partial differential equations.

On August 8, the annual IMCS institute excursion took the employees to the Blomberg near Bad Tölz.

Our new article "An approximate block factorization preconditioner for mixed-dimensional beam-solid interaction" has been published as an open-access paper in the journal Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

Our new article "Numerical simulation of endovascular treatment options for cerebral aneurysms" has been published as an open-access paper in the journal GAMM Mitteilungen.

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

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.