Fluid-structure interaction simulation of a falling elastic ball within a viscous fluid and its contact with the bottom
PD Dr. Stefan Frei
I am a senior lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat, permanent) at the |
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My research focuses on the
Recently, I have also started working in the field of Scientific Machine Learning, i.e. the combination of classical numerical methods and machine learning (in particular artificial neural networks). |
Jan Reichle | PhD student (funded by DFG, from June 2025) | Unfitted Finite Element Methods for Fully Eulerian Fluid-Structure Interactions |
Gabriel Gässler | Master thesis (funded by BND, with R. Denk) | Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection in Multi-Spectral Satellite Images |
Sina Meier | Bachelor student | Artificial Neural Networks and Principal Component Analysis for Operator Learning of Partial Differential Equations |
Samuel Inca Pilco | Bachelor thesis | Adaptive Reduction of the Network Architecture in Residual Neural Networks |
David Strobel | Bachelor student | Data-Driven Prediction of the Evolution of Phytoplanktons in Lake Constance using Artificial Neural Networks |
Maneesh Kumar Singh | Postdoc | Eulerian Time-Stepping Schemes for Interface Problems |
Oscar E Escobar Lasso | Postdoc | Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Mosquito Control Strategies |
Locally modified finite element discretisation in an application for plaque growth in arteries