The research work carried out in the Computational Mathematics group is inspired by real life applications. The topics addressed here appear as mathematical models in energy, environmental engineering, aerodynamics, technology, geosystems, biosystems, chemistry or physics, and include processes like flow, diffusion, reactions, transport, and involve multiple scales, or rapidly oscillating characteristics.
In the media
Special events, notable results
August 27th, 13:30-14:30, room B103 and online: CMAT Seminar
Faizal Mir (University of British Columbia-Okanagan)
"Quantum gravitational backreaction on quantum mechanics"
June 24th-27th, campus Hasselt:
Summer School
"Adaptive methods and a posteriori error estimation"
May 28th, 14:00-15:00, room E139 and online: CMAT Seminar
Anke Boschman (Monash University, Melbourne)
"Theories for bulk-surface interactions"
March 7th, 9:00-10:00, room A54 and online: CMAT Seminar
Awais Khan (Monash University, Melbourne)
"Conservative discontinuous Galerkin methods for the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation"
February 29th, 10:00-11:00, room B5 and online: CMAT Seminar
Laurens Bliek (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Benchmarking Surrogate-based Optimisation Algorithms on Expensive Black-box Functions"
February 28th, 14:00-16:00, Louis Verhaegen, Campus Hasselt (Oude Gevangenis) and online: PhD defense
Sasan Amini (UHasselt)
"Constrained Bayesian Optimization with Barrier Functions; Impact of heteroscedastic noise on the search and identification phases"
February 28th, 11:00-12:00, room E140 and online: CMAT Seminar
Ayesha Javed (UHasselt)
"Exploration of robust and fast L-splitting schemes for nonlinear double degenerate equations"
January 16th, 15:00-16:00, room E139 and online: CMAT Seminar
Ange Ishimwe (UC Louvain)
"Numerical methods for the shallow water equations"
December 19th, 15:15-16:15, room F0.28 and online: CMAT Seminar
Wietse Vaes (University of Washington)
"Conservative discontinuous Galerkin methods for the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation"
December 18th, 16:15-17:15, room A4 and online: CMAT Seminar
Manuela Bastidas (University of the Basque Country)
"Variational Physics-Informed Neural Networks with Spectral Basis Functions."
December 4th, 16:00-17:00, room F0.28 and online: CMAT Seminar
Hanchuan Wu (University of Stuttgart)
"An efficient and robust fully implicit pore-network model for the pore-scale simulation"
October 18th, 14:00-15:00, room H2 and online: CMAT Seminar
Jan ten Thije Boonkkamp (Eindhoven University of Technology)
"Inverse methods for freeform optical design"
September 27th, 14:30-15:30, room A9 and online: CMAT Seminar
Hendrik Ranocha (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
"Adaptive and structure-preserving numerical methods"
September 12th, 11:00-12:00, room A9 and online: CMAT Seminar
Fredrik Simons (Princeton University)
"Efficient Parameter Estimation of (Multivariate) Sampled Random Fields in Geology and Geophysics"
June 26th-29th, campus Diepenbeek:
Summer School
"(Bulk-)Surface Partial Differential Equations"
Website and registration
June 8th, 9:30-10:30, room A106 and online: CMAT Seminar
Malgorzata Peszynska (Oregon State University)
"Complex problems with simple solutions: confessions of a mathematician"
April 26th, 14:00-15:00, room C104 and online: CMAT Seminar
Wietse Boon (Polytechnic University of Milan)
"Numerical methods for Stokes flow and Biot poroelasticity using rotation-based formulations"
January 31st, 14:00-15:00, room C109 and online: CMAT Seminar
Hans van Duijn (Eindhoven University of Technology)
"The Nonlinear Mandel Problem"
November 23rd, 11:00-12:00, room A104 and online: CMAT Seminar
Martin Vohralik (INRIA Paris)
"A priori and a posteriori error analysis in H(curl): localization, minimal regularity, and p-optimality"
November 17th, 15:00, room H4: PhD defense
Sohely Sharmin (UHasselt, CMAT)
"Upscaling of two-phase porous-media flows with evolving fluid-fluid interfaces at the pore scale"
September 29th, 11:00-12:00, room A6 and online: CMAT Seminar
Alessio Fumagalli (Polytechnic University of Milan)
"A mixed-dimensional model for direct current simulations with an immersed high resistivity liner"
September 13th, 15:00, room H5: PhD defense
Stephan Lunowa (UHasselt, CMAT)
"Dynamic Capillarity and Hysteretic Effects in Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media: Modeling, Upscaling and Simulation"
September 12th, 14:30-15:30, room C105 and online: CMAT Seminar
Beatrice Riviere (Rice University)
"Numerical analysis and application of Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations"
June 27th-30th, campus Hasselt:
Summer school
'Discontinuous Galerkin Methods'
May 17th, 14:00-15:00, online: CMAT Seminar
Stéphane Clain (Minho University)
"The structural method"
May 11th, 15:30-16:30, room A104 and online: CMAT Seminar
Nadja Ray and Stephan Gaerttner (University of Erlangen)
"Micro-macro models for two-mineral systems"
Raphael Schulz (University of Erlangen)
"Degenerate equations for fluid flow and reactive transport in clogging porous media"
April 5th, 9:30-10:30, room A4: CMAT Seminar
Martin Schneider (University of Stuttgart)
"Nonlinear mixed-dimension model for embedded tubular networks"
February 4th, 14:00-15:00, online: CMAT Seminar
Lea Versbach (Lund University)
"Space-Time Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Methods - Formulation, Implementation and Efficient Solvers"
January 18th, 14:00-15:00, room A108 and online: CMAT Seminar
Stephan de Hoop (Delft University of Technology)
"Fracture and reactive transport modelling, a connection with outcrop observations and uncertainty quantification"
December 7th, 10:00-11:00, online: CMAT Seminar
Anwar Ahmad (COMSATS University Islamabad)
"On some inverse problems involving fractional differential equations"
September 1st, 14:00-15:00, online: CMAT Seminar
Tobias Köppl (Technical University of Munich)
"Modeling and simulation of tumor angiogenesis"
June 29th, 11:00-12:00, online: CMAT Seminar
Tobias Köppl (Technical University of Munich)
"Fronts in two-phase porous media flow problems: The effects of hysteresis and dynamic capillarity"
June 17th, 13:00-14:00, online: CMAT Seminar
Jan Helmig (RWTH Aachen)
"Boundary-Conforming Finite Element Methods for Complex Rotating Domains with Application to Plastic Producing Industry"
May 18th, online: CMAT Seminar
10:00-11:00
Karen Veroy-Grepl (Eindhoven University of Technology)
"Data Assimilation and Optimal Sensor Placement via Model Order Reduction"
May 6th, 14:00, room H3: PhD defense
Manuela Bastidas (UHasselt, CMAT)
"Multi-scale methods for the numerical simulation of flow and reactive transport in porous media"
November 13th, 11:00-12:00, online: CMAT Seminar
Martin Vohralik (INRIA Paris and Université Paris-Est)
"Guaranteed a posteriori error bounds and discretization–linearization–algebraic resolution adaptivity in numerical approximations of model PDEs"
November 12th, 14:00-15:00, online: CMAT Seminar
Hoang-An Tran (UHasselt)
"Cell problem in canopy"
November 4th, 14:00-15:00, online: CMAT Seminar
Saurav Samantaray (Indian Institute Of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram)
"Analysis of Asymptotic Preserving and Asymptotically Accurate IMEX Finite Volume Schemes for Low Mach number Isentropic Flows"
October 30th, 10:00-11:00, online: CMAT Seminar
Eleni Theodosiou (UHasselt)
"Efficient solver for the Navier-Stokes and the Cahn Hilliard equation using the discontinuous Galerkin method"
September 16th, 14:00-15:00, Ecotron: CMAT Seminar
Jeremy Chouchoulis (UHasselt)
"Humid Navier-Stokes"
January 28th, 14:00-15:00, room A54: DySy/CMAT Seminar
Georgios Patsios (UHasselt)
"Geometrically-induced mixed-mode oscillations through piecewise-affine maps"
January 23rd, 15:00-16:00, room H2: Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecture
Veerle Cnudde (Ghent University)
"Unravelling pore-scale processes in geomaterials"
January 21st, 9:30-10:30, room C110: CMAT Seminar
Lars von Wolff (University of Stuttgart and UHasselt)
"A Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes Model for Two Phase Flow with Precipitation and Dissolution"
Compact course given by Markus Gahn (UHasselt)
"Homogenization and multi-scale analysis for problems in porous media"
Tuesday, Dec. 3rd: 14:00 - 16:00 (A4),
Monday, Dec. 9th: 13:30 - 15:30 (E139).
December 5th, 16:00-17:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Kundan Kumar (Karlstad University)
"Solution strategies for deformable porous media"
November 28th, 14:00-15:00, room B101: CMAT Seminar
Eleni Theodosiou (UHasselt)
"A Numerical Solution of the Heat Transfer Problem"
October 11th, campus Hasselt:
Our colleagues form the Dynamical Systems group are organising the symposium
'Delay-Day Hasselt'
August 28th, 15:30-16:30, room A9: CMAT Seminar
Maria Neuss-Radu (University of Erlangen)
"Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of the Evolution of Plaques in Blood Vessels"
August 22nd, 15:00-16:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Jonas Zeifang (University of Stuttgart)
"A high order numerical framework for compressible multiphase simulations"
August 21st, 14:00-15:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Davide Illiano (University of Bergen)
"A Study on Iterative Schemes for Fully Coupled Reactive Transport and Flow in Variably Saturated Porous Media"
June 27th, room C1: CMAT Seminar
14:30-15:30
David Seal (U.S. Naval Academy)
"Multiderivative Taylor based solvers for ordinary and partial differential equations"
15:30-16:30
Sebastiaan Janssens (Utrecht University)
"A class of abstract delay differential equations in the light of suns and stars"
June 24th-26th, campus Hasselt:
Summer school
'Phase field modeling'
May 16th, 15:30, room A4: CMAT Seminar
Michael Eden (University of Bremen)
"Homogenization in the Context of Highly Heterogeneous Poroelastic Media"
April 15th, 14:00, room C151: CMAT Seminar
Markus Gahn (UHasselt)
"Effective models for reaction-diffusion processes in multi-component domains"
April 2nd, 11:30, room FR1.06 (Campus Hasselt, UPDATED!): CMAT Seminar
Karel In't Hout (University of Antwerp)
"Operator splitting methods for financial option valuation"
March 29th, 14:00, room E140: CMAT Seminar
Hoang-An Tran (UHasselt)
"Modeling and simulation of intra-voxel susceptibility effects in magnetic resonance imaging"
February 26th, 14:00, room H5: CMAT Seminar
Giovanni Samaey (KU Leuven)
"Computational multiscale methods for interacting particle systems"
February 18th, 11:00, room H3: CMAT Seminar
Barry Koren (Eindhoven University of Technology)
"Computational Science for Energy"
January 31st, 10:30, room C2: Dynamical Systems Seminar
Patrick Bonckaert (UHasselt)
"Resonant planar saddles of vector fields and unfolding"
January 9th, 12:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
David Landa Marban (University of Bergen)
"Mathematical modeling of biofilm formation at different scales: upscaling and numerical simulations"
December 19th, 14:00, room A7: CMAT Seminar
Jeremy Chouchoulis (UHasselt, CMAT)
"An advanced Fluid-Structure Interaction software package for industrial problems in nuclear reactor applications"
December 4th, 14:00, room C105: Dynamical Systems Seminar
Nikola Popovic (University of Edinburgh)
"A Geometric Analysis of a Model for Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)"
November 13th, 13:30, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Khoa Vo-Anh (UHasselt, CMAT)
"Asymptotic expansions for a semi-linear microscopic elliptic equation with scalings"
November 6th, 15:00, room A4: CMAT Seminar
Markus Gahn (University of Heidelberg)
"Effective interface transmission conditions for reactive transport through thin heterogeneous membranes"
October 29th, 14:00, room H4: PhD defense
Alexander Jaust (UHasselt, CMAT)
"Novel implicit unconditionally stable time-stepping for DG-type methods and related topics"
October 8th, 14:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Stephan Lunowa (UHasselt, CMAT)
"Linearization and domain decomposition methods for two-phase flow in porous media"
October 1st, 14:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Erlend Storvik (University of Bergen)
"Optimal stability parameter for the fixed-stress splitting scheme applied to the Biot equations"
September 27th, 14:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Florian Frank (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
"Digital rock simulations of immiscible two-phase flow with discontinuous Galerkin methods"
September 20th, 14:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Carina Bringedal (UHasselt)
"Structure and forcing of observed exchanges across the Greenland-Scotland ridge"
September 12th, 15:00, room B102: CMAT Seminar
Ivan Yotov (University of Pittsburgh)
"Multiscale stochastic domain decomposition methods for multiphysics
problems"
September 7th, 10:00, room A4: CMAT Seminar
Klaus Kaiser (RWTH Aachen University)
"A high order discretization technique for singularly perturbed differential equations"
June 25th-27th, campus Hasselt:
Summer school
'Introduction to hyperbolic conservation laws'
May 29th, 14:00, room A5: CMAT Seminar
Giulia Deolmi (RWTH Aachen University)
"Effective boundary conditions for compressible flows over rough boundaries"
Apr. 26th, 10:30, room C6: CMAT Seminar
Alexandru Telea (University of Groningen)
"Image-based information visualization (or how to unify SciVis and InfoVis)"
Apr. 13th, 14:00, room A106: CMAT Seminar
Kundan Kumar (University of Bergen)
"Solution strategies for the coupling of mixed dimensional problems"
Apr. 12th, 10:00, room A4: CMAT Seminar
Sohely Sharmin (UHasselt, CMAT group)
"Pore scale formulation and rational derivation of the upscaled model of two-phase/unsaturated flow with evolving boundaries"
March. 27th, 11:30, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Veerle Cnudde (Ghent University)
"3D imaging of pore scale processes"
March 7th, 12:30-16:00, room A54: CMAT Mini-Symposium
Nadja Ray (University of Erlangen)
"Evolving porous media"
Alexander Thekale (Primetals Technologies Germany GmbH)
"Mathematical Models as Key Technology in Steel Rolling"
Jakub Both (University of Bergen)
"Anderson accelerated splitting schemes for unsaturated fluid flow in deformable porous media"
Feb. 6th, 11:00, room A3: CMAT Seminar
Matthias Schlottbom (University of Twente)
"Perfectly matched layers for radiative transfer"
Jan. 24th, 15:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Manuela Bastidas (UHasselt)
"Overview of homogenization using numerical methods"
Jan. 17th, 15:30, room B102: CMAT Seminar
David Landa Marban (University of Bergen)
"A mathematical model for permeable biofilm: experiments, upscaling, and simulations"
Jan. 17th, 11:00, room B103: CMAT Seminar
Manuel Torrilhon (RWTH Aachen University)
"Hierarchical Boltzmann Simulations and m(odel)-refinement"
Dec. 18th, 15:30, room C104: CMAT Seminar
Jan Nordbotten (University of Bergen)
"Mixed-dimensional Partial Differential Equations and application to fractured porous media"
Dec. 4th-5th, room FR 0.09 (Faculty of Law, Martelarenlaan 42)
Compact course given by Hadi Hajibeygi (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
"Multiscale Methods for Multiphase Flow in Porous Media"
(starting time is on Monday, Dec. 4, at 11:00)
Nov. 27th, 10:30, room FR 0.02 (Faculty of Law, Martelarenlaan 42)
Darcy Center/FWO Odysseus DynScale Workshop
"Porous Media Flows"
Nov. 24th, 10:30, room C104: Dynamical Systems Seminar
Hiroshi Kokubu (Kyoto University)
"Computational approach to the global dynamics and bifurcations"
Nov. 22nd, 15:30, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Renato Huzak (UHasselt, Dynamical Systems)
"Normal forms of Lienard type, slow-fast bifurcation and fractal geometry of canard cycles"
Nov. 21st, 11:00, room B103: CMAT Seminar
Jan ten Thije Boonkkamp (Eindhoven University of Technology, CASA)
"Flux approximation schemes based on local boundary value problems"
Oct. 20th, 10:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Sebastian Noelle (RWTH Aachen University, Institut für Geometrie und praktische Mathematik)
"On hydrostatic reconstruction schemes for the shallow water equation"
Oct. 18th, 15:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Maikel Bosschaert and Jochen Schütz (Hasselt University, Computational Mathematics)
"Tutorial session: numerical methods for delay differential equations"
Oct. 5th, 15:00, room A9: CMAT Seminar
Manuela Bastidas Olivares (Hasselt University, Computational Mathematics)
"HDG Method applied to porous media problems"
Sept. 22nd, 11:00, room A106: CMAT Seminar
Francois Rigo (University of Liège, Faculty of Applied Sciences)
"Unsteady pressure measurement around aerodynamic bodies: development of a calibration apparatus and wind tunnel testing"
June 26th-29th, room FR1.01 (Faculty of Law, Martelarenlaan 42):
Summer school
'Upscaling techniques for mathematical models involving multiple scales'
June 20th, 15:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Koondanibha Mitra (Eindhoven University of Technology and UHasselt, CMAT)
"A Linear Domain Decomposition Method for Unsaturated Flow in Porous Media"
June 7th, 15:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Sohely Sharmin (UHasselt, CMAT)
"Finite Elements on Curved Boundaries"
May 17th, 16:30, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Sid Visser (Simplxr B.V., Netherlands)
"Some analytical and numerical results on 2-dimensional neural fields"
May 12th, 15:00, room B101: CMAT Seminar
Jeroen Wynen (UHasselt, Dynamical Systems)
"Hilbert's 16th problem and semi-local normal forms of symmetric saddle connections"
May 11th, 15:00, room H5: PhD defense
Stefan Karpinski (UHasselt, CMAT)
"Numerical analysis of an interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin scheme for two phase flow in heterogeneous porous media with discontinuous dynamic capillary pressure effects"
May 4th, 15:00, room A4: CMAT Seminar
Karel Kenens (UHasselt, Dynamical Systems)
"Gevrey asymptotics for slow manifolds of slow-fast delay equations"
April 28th, 15:00, room A4: CMAT Seminar
Alexander Jaust (UHasselt, CMAT)
"A hybridized discontinuous Galerkin method for unsteady flow problems"
April 7th, 15:00, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Maikel Bosschaert (UHasselt, CMAT)
"Simulation and bifurcation analysis in diffusive neural fields models with transmission delays"
March 13th, 15:45, room A54: CMAT Seminar
Klaus Kaiser (RWTH Aachen & UHasselt, CMAT)
"High order methods for weakly compressible flows"
December 20th, 15:30, room A106: CMAT Seminar
Jakub Both (University of Bergen)
"Linearization and Splitting for Coupled Flow and Geomechanics in Unsaturated Porous Media"
November 2nd, 16:00, room A4: CMAT Seminar
Carina Bringedal (University of Bergen)
"Pore scale models: homogenization and effective equations"
Ph. D. Theses
Ph. D. Theses
UP-19-17: C. Bringedal, A conservative phase-field model for reactive transport (pdf, 301 KB)
UP-19-16: D. Landa-Marbàn, G. Bødtker, B.F. Vik, P. Pettersson, I.S. Pop, K. Kumar, F.A. Radu, Mathematical Modeling, Laboratory Experiments, and Sensitivity Analysis of Bioplug Technology at Darcy Scale
Ph. D. Theses
Ph. D. Theses
UP-17-03: M.M. Bosschaert, S.G. Janssens, and Yu.A. Kuznetsov, Switching to nonhyperbolic cycles from codim-2 bifurcations of equilibria in DDEs
Ph. D. Theses
Stefan Karpinski, Numerical analysis of an interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin scheme for two phase flow in heterogeneous porous media with discontinuous dynamic capillary pressure effects, Hasselt University, May 2017
Agoralaan Gebouw D, BE-3590 Diepenbeek