This year’s institute trip took us to the picturesque Spitzingsee area, combining outdoor activities, nature, and collegial exchange.

From July 28 to 30, 2025, the University of Duisburg-Essen hosted the PDE Constrained Optimization workshop.

Martin Frank and Ratnadeep Pramanik contributed to the Interdisciplinary Aneurysm Science Workshop at TUM, presenting their work on mechanical modeling of contour devices.

From July 29 to 31, the 3rd German Workshop on Next-Generation Software Development in Computational Mechanics took place at the Palotti House in Freising.

Four members of our institute took part in this year’s “FE ohne Schnee” seminar in Kleinwalsertal, with two of them presenting their latest research in a uniquely informal and scenic setting.

With two scientific talks at international conferences, the Mathematics Group of the Institute for Mathematics and Computer-based Simulation once again demonstrated international visibility in the summer of 2025.

Sebastian Brandstäter presented his research on coupled electromechanical simulations of the human stomach at ESB 2025 congress that took place at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, from July 6–9, 2025.

The ICCCM 2025 conference focused on computer-aided simulation in contact mechanics. Over 100 experts from all over the world discussed the latest developments.

Join us! We are offering a PhD/research assistant position at our institute, fully funded at TVöD E13 (100%).

On June 25, 2025, the second lecture of the year took place in the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) research colloquium organized by Professors Apel, Brünig, Kiendl and Popp.

IMCS researcher Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Brandstäter presented his latest research and co-organised a minisymposium at the UNCECOMP 2025 conference.

Our cluster, operated by the Data Science & Computing Lab at IMCS, has been upgraded with four new compute nodes, each equipped with a NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU accelerator.

Three members of our research group traveled to Vienna to meet with our collaboration partners at TU Wien for the first in-person meeting of the joint AutoStent project.

IMCS welcomes Regina Bühler as a new member of the computer-based simulation work group.

Researchers from IMCS contributed to the XI International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering with three presentations and the organization of a minisymposium.

The IMCS is taking part in the 19th Austrian Numerical Analysis Day in the historic city of Salzburg.

In our recent preprint, we present a new approach for locally refined isogeometric analysis (IGA) on polar domains — geometries parametrized by mappings resembling polar coordinate transformations.

The new preprint presents a surrogate modeling framework for predicting the effective contact area in rough surface contact problems.

Once again this year, IMCS took part in the traditionally annual GAMM Conference. The 95th edition of the event was held from April 7 to 11, 2025, in Poznań, the capital of the Greater Poland region.

We welcome Aswin Nath and Simon Völkl to our team, who started their PhD with us April.

Guest Lecture in Salzburg: Katharina Lorenz Returns to Her Alma Mater

IMCS greets Ratnadeep Pramanik, who joined our team as postdoctoral researcher in February.

The new preprint describes the design of Trilinos, introduces its new organization in product areas, and highlights established and newly available features.

The IMCS participated in the 3rd IACM Digital Twins in Engineering (DTE 2025) and the 1st ECCOMAS Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (AICOMAS 2025) conferences. The event featured insightful talks and interdisciplinary discussions.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Popp has been appointed Fellow of the newly founded Bavarian Science Alliance for Peace, Conflict and Security Research. This alliance was established in 2024 with the support of the Bavarian University Conference (Universität Bayern e.V.) to bundle excellent interdisciplinary research on peace, conflict and security in Bavaria and make it internationally visible.

On February 3, 2025, the first lecture of the new year took place in the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) research colloquium organized by Professors Apel, Brünig, Kiendl and Popp.

We are happy to announce the open-source release of 4C (“Comprehensive Computational Community Code”), a comprehensive multi-physics simulation framework designed to tackle complex problems in computational science and engineering.

Together with colleagues from the DLR Institute for the Protection of Terrestrial Infrastructures, Prof. Alexander Popp has published a specialist article on the protection of critical infrastructures as a central corporate task.

This week, our institute and our collaboration partners from DLR Institute gathered after work to enjoy the UniBw Christmas market.

We are delighted to share some recent updates to the research section of our institute’s website!