Efficient Multigrid based solvers for isogeometric analysis

Introduced in [1], Isogeometric Analysis (IgA) has become widely accepted in academia and industry. However, solving the resulting linear systems remains a challenging task. For instance, the condition number of the Poisson operator scales quadratically with the mesh width h, but, in contrast to standard Finite Elements, exponentially with the...

Elliptic grid generation techniques in the framework of isogeometric analysis applications

The generation of an analysis-suitable computational grid from a description of no more than its boundaries is a common problem in numerical analysis. Most classical meshing techniques for finite-volume, finite-difference or finite-element applications such as the Advancing Front Method (Schöberl, 1997), Delaunay Triangulation (Triangle, 1996...

Spline-Based Parameterization Techniques for Twin-Screw Machine Geometries

The fully automated generation of computational meshes for twin-screw machine geometries constitutes a mandatory aspect for the numerical simulation (and shape-optimization) of these devices but proves to be a challenging task in practice. Therefore, the successful generation of computational meshes requires sophisticated mathematical tools....

On the impact of quantum computing technology on future developments in high-performance scientific computing

Quantum computing technologies have become a hot topic in academia and industry receiving much attention and financial support from all sides. Building a quantum computer that can be used practically is in itself an outstanding challenge that has become the ‘new race to the moon’. Next to researchers and vendors of future computing...