Team

Prof. Dr. Kai Schneider (Project Coordinator)

Kai Schneider has considerable expertise in signal processing and scientific computing of turbulent fluid and plasma flows, including turbulence modelling and parallel computing. Multiscale tools, and wavelets in particular, for adaptive discretisations of nonlinear PDEs are a common theme in his research approach. He previously coordinated the ANR projects M2TFP (2005), the French-German AIFIT project (2015), and CM2E (2020).

Based at: I2M, Aix-Marseille Université, France
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Dr. Thomas Engels (co-coordinator)

Thomas Engels is a CNRS researcher (chargé de recherche) at ISM Marseille. He was previously employed at ISTA, TU Berlin. He is an internationally renowned interdisciplinary specialist in the numerical simulation of insect flight and high-performance computing. He was a member of the ANR project AIFIT (2015) and is the main developer of the WABBIT code. He is managing the Biolocomotion seminar 2 and has confirmed experience in interdisciplinary environments, since he did postdocs in applied mathematics, computational engineering, and biology.

Based at: ISM, Aix-Marseille Université, France
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Priv.-Doz. Dr.-Ing. Mathias Lemke

Mathias Lemke is a permanent researcher at Technische Universität Berlin with a habilitation in the subjects fluid mechanics and numerical aero-acoustics. He is a member of ISTA and a specialist in aero-acoustics and data assimilation, with a long and proven track record in DFG and DFG priority projects. He will coordinate the project on the German side. He has sound expertise in data assimilation and adjoint-based applications in computational fluid dynamics, in particular for aero-acoustics, and has received national and international recognition for his work.

Based at: ISTA, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
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Eden Getachew (Doctoral Student)

Eden Getachew is a doctal student with prior experience of working with researchers of both the German and French sides of the project. She completed her master’s thesis under the supervision of Thomas Engels and Mathias Lemke, focusing on parameter variation and analysis of the Volume Penalization Method (VPM). Her research intrests lie in applied mathematics and simulation of turbulent flow in biofluid mechanics. A central aspect of her work will be the optimization of VPM.

Julius Bergmann (Doctoral Student)

Julius Bergmann is a doctoral student with previous experience of working on the German and French sides of the project. He wrote his Bachelor Thesis under the supervision of Mathias Lemke and Julius Reiss, studying their novel effective volume penalization method. He then went on to write his Master Thesis under the supervision of Kai Schneider, investigating turbulent flows with the Characteristic Mapping Method. His research interests lie in the regime of turbulent flow and high-performance computing, and he will be working on the implementation of the adaptive Coherent Vortex Simulation method.