Ferien-Akademie

Multiscale and Multilevel Modeling and Simulation

Current problems in scientific computing have to be targeted on multiple scales, which raises a lot of different questions and poses many challenges:

• the problem's behavior can differ for each scale (consider the flow around the wing of an airplane: on a course scale, it seems to be laminar, on a fine scale it is clearly turbulent)
• different areas can require different resolution (solid areas should be treated on a different scale than fluids in multi-phase simulations)
• the interplay of different scales is of great interest
• mesoscopic particle models aim to cope with different scales
• optimization can exploit properties on multiple levels of resolution
• hierarchical/multilevel and adaptive models reflect different scales of resolution
• scientific software approaches and algorithms to visualize the results target different scales and levels, and need to be combined
• different soft- and hardware approaches in high-performance computing need to be combined in multi-level systems .

Some keywords

Particles in flow (non-Newtonian flow, polymeric flow etc.); two-phase simulations; force-field optimization; hardware-aware simulation (memory-hierarchy); selforganizsation of matter (nucleation, transport, segregation); multi-level and hierarchical methods and optimization; (adaptive) coarse-graining; level-of-detail; mesoscopic particle methods; smart foams; hierarchical materials; reduced base modeling; multiscale and large scale simulation

Application

Application until May 29, 2011 via the central application page here. Please note that for the Ph.D.-level course not all data that you are asked for is relevant: You can skip the section "academic achievements", asking for the exams you have taken so far; you do not need a copy of your passport (but make sure, you're allowed to enter Italy via Austria!); no need to provide the high school certificate; no need for further certificates of relevance.