1. Honours Projects Example: MolDyn – Molecular Dynamics
Bavarian Graduate School of Computational Engineering
Honours Projects
Goals and Intentions
Organisation
close the gap between theory and practice
involve students into current research projects
at an earlier stage and more intensively than in the usual programs
learning-on-the-job
intensive mentoring
extent: 1 or 2 semesters, 10 ECTS credits
individual and group projects possible
in collaboration with an industry partner or with univeristy research groups
presentations within the BGCE Research Day (regular research seminar)
poster contributions to symposia & workshops
thesis and/or publication
Example: MolDyn – Molecular Dynamics
Scientific Computing & Software Engineering
collaboration of 5 students with different backgrounds
distribution of roles (team leader, etc.) and fields of expertise (modelling, visualisation, etc.)
soft skills traing on the job
Numerical Simulation of Molecular Dynamics
molecules are modelled as rigid bodies interacting on collisions (Lennard-Jones 6-12 potential)
computational effort must be kept proportinal to number of molecules: O(n) algorithms required
parallelisation to support large number of molecules
easy to use graphical interface for computational steering
visualisation of the results
Example 2: U-Bahn Marienplatz
Example 3: Aneurisms
enlarging of the U-Bahn station Marienplatz
industry project SoFiSTIK AG
involving students into current research projects
Finite Element analysis of strucutural stability
research project at the chair for System Simulation (Univ. Erlangen)
Jan Götz: Simulation of wall stresses within an aneurism
using Lattice Boltzmann automaton