Scientific Computing

Numerical Simulation of Lasers

  • modelling of physical effects in solid-state-lasers
  • calculation of beam quality, output power and pulse width
  • laser resonators and amplifiers
  • collaboration with the company ASLD GmbH, which is a spin-off from FAU
Christoph Pflaum, Souryadeep Saha

Airship Simulation

  • Solar powered airships allow a sustainable future aviation.
  • Route optimization of airships is needed to reduce energy consumption and travel time.
  • Development of suitable simulation algorithms.
Christoph Pflaum, Niklas Heidenreich

Numerical Solution of PDE’s by Sparse Grids

  • sparse Grids reduce the computaional amount for solving PDE’s
  • efficient algorithms for solving high dimensional  PDE’s with variable coefficients on sparse grids
  • solution of high dimensional Schrödinger equation
  • convergence analysis, numerical analysis

Talk on sparse grids
Christoph Pflaum

Numerical Simulation of Thin Film Solar Cells

  • numerical solution of  Maxwell’s equations on high performance computers
  • algorithms for the simulation of plasmonic effects
  • numerical  analysis of iterative solvers
  • simulation of  organic and  silicon solar cells
Christoph Pflaum