Visualization and Feature Extraction for Flow Fields
Flow fields play an important role in science and engineering. We developed various methods for the visual analysis of flow fields. See publications below for details.
100Gbit/s Carrier-grade Ethernet Transport Technologies
The BMBF-project 100GET addresses new networking concepts and transmission technologies for next generation Ethernet-based communication networks.
The research conducted...
Thermography is used for nondestructive testing of different materials in order to detect imperfections of the material. The numerical simulation of the temperature...
Feature-Based Analysis and Comparison of Coherent Structures in Parameter-Dependent Flows
In this projects methods are developed for extraction of coherent structures or dominant features in complex turbulent, time-dependent flows. Since flow fields are...
The leading manufacturers of microprocessors promote the development of multicore architectures. And indeed, the current generation of dual and quadcore processors has...
The vehicle positioning problem deals with the assignment of parking positions to buses, trams or trains in order to minimize the number of shunting moves and to balance...
Patient-specific Analysis of the Hemodynamics of Cerebral Aneurysms
Within this project, the development of a methodology for the patient specific analysis of cerebral aneurysms is in focus. Such a cerebral aneurysm is potentially life...
For ensuring a given Quality of Service in IP networks for the various packet streams arriving at a link, they are assigned to different queues. By prioritizing the...
The goal of this project is to develop tools to model and analyze 3D neural networks of the rat primary somatosensory cortex, also called 'barrel cortex'. This will help...
In this project we investigate polyhedra associated with cardinality constrained combinatorial optimization problems. Given any combinatorial optimization problem Π, one...
As part of the Collaborative Research Centre 760 - "Biomechanics and Biology of Musculoskeletal Regeneration" - the goal of this project is to reconstruct patient...
IBM is a company that provides software and services for business planning and operation. In particular, it develops the IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimizer, a mathematical...
Sparse Representation of Solutions of Differential Equations
Recently, very remarkable results on the stable recovery of signals and data from incomplete measurements have been proven that are of enormous practical importance and...
A quantitative understanding of the heart function is crucial for several cardiac therapies, ranging from ablation or resynchronization therapy to valve replacement. The...
Kaskade 7 is a finite element toolbox for the solution of stationary or transient systems of partial differential equations. The library is written in C++ and is based on...
Available solvers for mixed integer programs (MIPs) focus on rapidly finding close to optimal solutions for feasible instances. The answers, however, are computed with...
In this project we developed a novel theory of path connectivity that generalizes the Steiner tree problem to a hypergraph setting. Main results include a Menger...
Chip Design Verification with Constraint Integer Programming
In the design process of integrated circuits and other electronic hardware, a huge amount of time and resources is spent on the verification of the design and the final...
Today's logistics shows two faces. On the one hand, there are areas which are almost completely dominated by manual planning (e.g., hospital logistics), while some of the...
XtreemFS is a distributed and replicated file system for cloud and grid infrastructures; clients and servers can be distributed worldwide. XtreemFS builds a reliable...