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PD Dr. Jörn Behrens (Akad. Rat) Chair of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Technische Universität München 85747 Garching bei München Germany Phone : +49 (89) 289 17 958 Fax : +49 (89) 289 17 985 eMail : behrensma.tum.de

Research interests

Scientific Computing, especially:

• Parallel algorithms
• adaptive methods
• finite element methods
• grid generation
• geophysical fluid dynamics
• numerical methods for conservation laws

Further Data

• Teaching
• Publications
• Presentations
• CV

Current projects

• Adaptive mesh generation in inverse transport problems
• Collaboration with Alfred-Wegener-Institute in the Framework of the German Climate Research Program (DEKLIM) 
• Adaptive Semi-Lagrangian Modeling of Multi-scaled Phenomena on Parallel Computers
• Adaptive grid generation in atmosphere and ocean simulation (Poster in German, PDF 749 KB)

Software

• amatos: Adaptive Mesh generator for Atmospheric and Oceanic Simulation 
• BJUGL: Software for real time rendering of grided data
• VisNET: OpenGL-based 3D visualization of unstructured data

Completed projects

• Adaptive Mesh Partitioning with Space-Filling Curves (see Poster (PDF, 162 KB))
• Three-dimensional Grid Generation for the Simulation of Atmospheric Tracer Transport

Private Interests

• I am a voting member of Greenpeace Germany , I was member and chair of the board of trustees between 1999 and 2005
• An art project Nike of Samothrake