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News- LBRG in Numbers: Education / Research / Innovation

We at LBRG (www.lbrg.kit.edu) are proud to look back on the following list of achievements in Education, Research and Innovation within the past years.

Education:

Finished theses at KIT: 12 dissertations, >100 bachelor/master/diploma theses

Teaching at KIT:

• Introduction to Computer Science and Algorithmic Mathematics:
  ~300 participants yearly (from Bio-/Chemical Engineering, and Mathematics)

• Parallel Computing in Theory and Practice: ~20 participants yearly (from Engineering and Mathematics)

• Computational Fluid Dynamics and Simulation Lab: ~35 participants yearly (from Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics). Funded as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments.

• Seminar on Computational Fluid Dynamics: ~16 participants yearly (from Engineering and Mathematics)

International open workshops (such as "Lattice Boltzmann Methods with OpenLB Software Lab", https://www.openlb.net/spring-school):

• 105 participants / 18 countries: 8th Spring School, 2025, CIRM, Marseille, France.

• 10 participants / 3 countries: Industrial Workshop, 2024, Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• 57 participants / 13 countries: 7th Spring School, 2024, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany.

• 50 participants / 15 countries: 6th Spring School, 2023, University of Greenwich, London, UK.

• 51 participants / 8 countries: 5th Spring School, 2022, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland.

• 60 particpants / 9 countries: 4th Spring School, 2020, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

• 35 participants / 3 countries: DAAD PPP Workshop, 2019, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

• 46 participants / 12 countries: 3rd Spring School,2019, Technische Hochschule Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.

• 10 participants / 3 countries: Workshop, 2019, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

• 100 participants / >10 countries: Data-driven Modeling & Optimization Workshop, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany.

• 49 participants / 14 countries: 2nd Spring School, 2018, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany.

• 64 participants / 10 countries: 1st Spring School, 2017, Hammamet, Tunisia.

• 30 participants / 2 countries: HPC Workshop, 2017, IIT Mandi, India.

Research:

Editors for international journals:

• Computers & Fluids (@Mathias J. Krause, Associate Editor)

• Examples and Counterexamples (@Stephan Simonis, Associate Editor)

Publications:

110 Publications (excluding software), 17 software releases, and 2452 cites on Google Scholar

Third party funding:

7.37 million EUR from (DFG, EU, DAAD, InvestBW, BMBF, BMWi, industry and others)

Reviews:

• 40 publications international journals

• Reviews for international research funding agencies (DFG, SNF, ANR, ISF, EU Humboldt, KONWIHR, PACER, NHR)

Innovation:

Software: OpenLB (www.openlb.net), OpenGPI (www.opengpi.org), Paint2Sim, OpenVisFlow, OpenLBar, ClearMath (www.clearmaths.org)

Industrial collaborations with: Bosch, Henning Larsen, Kress, Mitsubishi Electric, Morgenrot, SEW Eurodrive, Yokogawa, Zeiss, Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau, Naver Energy, Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions, Ashaw Energy, hr wallingford, Airbus, MSC Software | Hexagon, Euronovia

Our achievements are only possible with the joint work of our partners. For that we thank our collaborators at KIT as well as the national and international partners and are looking forward to future collaborative research.

International collaborations with LBRG (not exhaustive list):

• @Jürgen Rauleder (Georgia Institute of Technology)

• @Alexander Wagner (North Dakota State University)

• @Marcio Dorn (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)

• @Tianbai Xiao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

• @Benjamin J. Mullins (Curtin University)

• @Timothy Reis (University of Greenwich)

• @Halim Kusumaatmaja (University of Edinburgh)

• @Timm Krüger (University of Edinburgh)

• @John Bridgeman (University of Bradford)

• @Mohaddeseh Mousavi Nezhad (University of Liverpool)

• @Siddhartha Mishra (ETH Zürich)

• @Laura de Lorenzis (ETH Zürich)

• @Ilya Karlin (ETH Zürich)

• @Julien Favier (Aix-Marseille Université)

• @Pierre Sagaut (Aix-Marseille Université)

• @Eduard Feireisl (Czech Academy of Sciences)

• @Miroslav Jecha (BRNO University of Technology)

• @Paweł Madejski (AGH University of Science and Technology)

• @Stephane Bordas (University of Luxembourg)