Research
Main scientific interests:
- Multi-component reactive transport in porous media
- Mathematical modeling
- Existence of global solutions of reactive transport systems with mass action kinetics
- Efficient numerical treatment of reactive transport problems (PDE-ODE-DAE systems)
- Complementarity problems arising from precipitation-dissolution reactions of minerals, semismooth Newton method
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- Older research topics (before 2002):
- Domain decomposition methods (CGBI/FETI) and construction of efficient interface-acting preconditioners, and its implementation in a parallel Navier-Stokes solver coupling FE and spectral local solvers
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- Domain decomposition methods (CGBI/FETI) and construction of efficient interface-acting preconditioners, and its implementation in a parallel Navier-Stokes solver coupling FE and spectral local solvers
Obtained Funds:
- Efficient Numerical Methods for Large Partial Differential Complementary Systems arising in Multispecies Reactive Transport with Minerals in Porous Media,
together with Professor Dr. Peter Knabner, Professor Dr. Christian Kanzow (Würzburg),
DFG (KN 229/12-1), 2007 – 2010 - Efficient Numerical Methods for Large Partial Differential Complementary Systems arising in Multispecies Reactive Transport with Minerals in Porous Media (Nachfolgeprojekt),
together with Professor Dr. Peter Knabner, Professor Dr. Christian Kanzow (Würzburg),
DFG (KN 229/12-2), 2010 – 2013
Awards:
- Prize for ”the most innovative method” for the solution of the MoMaS benchmark problem on reactive problems (3000 Eur) to J. Hoffmann, S. Kräutle, P. Knabner, 2009 (”the method … gives very accurate solutions and reduces significantly the computing time”)
- Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, 2017, from Water Resources Research / AGU (American Geophysical Union), link