Dr. Ralf Deiterding

 



Research

Biography / CV

Publications

AMROC

Virtual Test Facility

AMR-Simulations

Detonations

ANumE-Benchmarks

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008 MS6367
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6367, USA

Phone 1-865-241-0782
Fax 1-865-574-0680
Bldg. 6012, Room 114

Alston S. Householder Postdoctoral Fellow in Scientific Computing

Computational Mathematics Group
Computational Science and Mathematics Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Chief software architect for the Virtual Test Facility of the DOE ASC Alliance Center for the Simulation of Dynamic Response of Materials at the California Institute of Technology

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Research Interests

 

Innovative solution algorithms for computational fluid dynamics based on reliable discretization techniques
    - Numerical methods for flows in complex evolving geometries
    - Fluid-structure interaction simulation
    - Numerical methods for multi-phase and reactive flows
Finite volume methods for multi-dimensional flows, especially for hyperbolic problems
    - Dynamically adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods
    - Robust and reliable high-resolution shock-capturing schemes
    - Accurate Cartesian grid methods
Efficient large-scale numerical simulation of multi-dimensional fluid flows
    - Fully coupled simulation of fluid-structure problems
    - Reactive flows, especially detonation waves
    - Large-eddy simulation of compressible turbulence
Development of parallel hierarchical multilevel structured adaptive mesh refinement methods (SAMR)
    - Extension of the hyperbolic Berger-Collela SAMR algorithm, for instance to magneto-hydrodynamics
    - Adaptive geometric multigrid
    - Scalability on distributed memory machines
    - Hierarchical multi-constraint partitioning algorithms
Object-oriented concepts for large simulation infra-structures

Detailed information can be found in my research statement.

 

 

 

 

 


 

Short biography

 

since Sep 06

Alston S. Householder Postdoctoral Fellow in Scientific Computing in Computational Mathematics Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.


since Oct 04

Chief software architect for the Virtual Test Facility (VTF), a software infrastructure for three-dimensional fully coupled fluid-structure simulations. AMROC is the dynamically adaptive fluid-solver framework inside of the VTF.
Collaborators can request login procedures for the VTF Wiki content management system per email.

Jul 03-Aug 06
Postdoctoral scholar in Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology.
DOE ASCI Center for Simulating the Dynamic Response of Materials at the California Institute of Technology

Feb 98-Jun 03
Research Assistant at the chair for Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Technical University Cottbus.
PhD thesis: Parallel adaptive simulation of multi-dimensional detonation structures
Development of AMROC - A Framework for Blockstrucured Adaptive Mesh Refinement in Object-oriented C++
Project: Analysis and simulation of flows for multi-component gas-mixtures, supported by German high-priority research program Analysis and Numerics of Conservation Laws
Proposed ANumE-Benchmarks: English and German
Teaching Assistant: Efficient implementation of numerical algorithms in C

Oct 92-Jan 98
Study of Applied and Technical Mathematics at Technical University Clausthal.
Diploma thesis: Numerical coupling of the 3D flow-code FIRE to the 1D hydraulic-code AMESIM for the design of Diesel-injection systems

Detailed information, including a list of publications, can be found in my curriculum vitae.

 

 


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