Person profile

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Math. Dr.techn.

Dirk Praetorius

Phone +43 1 58801 10150

E-Maildirk.praetorius@tuwien.ac.at

Assigned

E101	E101-02	E129-02	E101-02-2

Business Card

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1977-9830

Research department

Name	Management/Member
Institute of Analysis and Scientific Computing	Management

Research area

Name	Management/Member
Research Unit of Numerical Analysis	Member

Research group

Name	Management/Member
Research Group for Numerics of PDEs	Management

Profile

Research profile (German):

Numerische Behandlung partieller Differentialgleichungen, Finite Elemente Methode (FEM), Randelementmethode (BEM), Adaptive Mesh-Refining Strategien, Matrix Kompression durch Verwendung von H-Matrizen, Computational Micromagnetics, Software-Entwicklung für Implizite Randwertprobleme und DAEs, Entwicklung von MATLAB Bibliothek HILBERT für adaptive BEM

Research profile (English):

Numerical Treatment of PDEs, Finite Element Method (FEM), Boundary Element Method (BEM), Adaptive Mesh-Refining Strategies, Matrix Compression by Use of H-Matrices, Computational Micromagnetics, Software Development for Implicit Boundary Value Problems and DAEs, Development of MATLAB Library HILBERT for adaptive BEM

Publications:

Publications

Keywords

Keyword (German)	Keyword (English)
A Posteriori Fehleranalysis und Adaptive Algorithmen	a posteriori error analysis and adaptive algorithms
elliptische partielle Differentialgleichungen	elliptic PDEs
hierarchische Matrizen und Fast Multipole Methode	hierarchical matrices and fast multipole method
Computational Micromagnetics	computational micromagnetics
Randelementmethode	boundary element method
Finite Element Methode	finite element method

Research Focal Areas

Research focus	Research field	Keywords	Percentage
Computational Science and Engineering	Computational Materials Science	Multi Scaling from Atomistic to Continuum Scales, Ab Initio Calculations, Many-Body Calculations, Calculations of Material Properties, Micromechanics & Micromagnetics	15
Computational Science and Engineering	Mathematical and Algorithmic Foundations	Computational PDEs, Computational Statistics, Optimization, Systems Theory and Control, Computer Algebra, Computational Geometry, Time-dependent Problems in CSE, Computational Finance, Asymptotic and Hybrid Methods	85

Faculty focus

Faculty focus	Percentage
Analysis und Scientific Computing	100

Area of expertise according to Statistik Austria

Code	Area of expertise (German)	Area of expertise (English)
1104	Angewandte Mathematik	Applied mathematics
1114	Numerische Mathematik	Numerical mathematics

Reference Projects

Title	Funding program	Function	Website	From	Until
National, FWF - The Science Fund
Optimal adaptivity for BEM and FEM-BEM coupling	Single project	Principal Investigator		01.08.2014	01.12.2017
Dissipation and dispersion in nonlinear PDEs	Human resources	Participation / Faculty	http://npde.tuwien.ac.at/	01.03.2013	01.02.2017
Optimal isogeometric boundary element methods	Single project	Principal Investigator		01.08.2016	31.07.2019
Adaptive boundary element methods	Single project	Principal Investigator	http://www.asc.tuwien.ac.at/ab...	01.08.2009	30.04.2014
National, Other clients / lenders
Numerical computation of view factors and exchange areas in annealing furnances	others			01.04.2012	31.05.2014
National, WWTF - Vienna Science and Technology Fund
Thermally controlled magnetization dynamics	Thematic calls	Principal Investigator	http://www.asc.tuwien.ac.at/ma...	01.01.2015	01.12.2017
Micromagnetic simulation and computational design of future devices	Thematic calls	Principal Investigator	http://www.asc.tuwien.ac.at/ma...	01.04.2010	31.12.2013
TUW-intern, TU Wien
Reliable and efficient numerical integration of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in micromagnetics	Internal research funding	Principal Investigator		01.04.2014	01.03.2017
Effective numerical methods for the Johnson-Nédélec coupling of FEM and BEM	Internal research funding	Principal Investigator		01.08.2011	31.07.2014

International award

Awarding Organization	Country	Program	Function	Name	From	Until	Website	Project ID
Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics	Germany	Invited guest at HIM Junior Semester Programm on Computational Mathematics	Researcher	Adaptive finite element methods	01.02.2008	31.03.2008

Competition participation

Competition	See additional information:	Date	Country	Sponsorship	Ranked	Purchased
Young Researcher Award at Conference IABEM 2006		01/2006	Austria		2	No

R&D Accomplishments

Description	From	Until
Other categories
Koordinator des Erasmus-Austausch-Programms zwischen der TU Wien und der Brunel University, Uxbridge/UK	01/2004	12/2007
Koordinator des Erasmus-Austausch-Programms zwischen der TU Wien und der Universität Ulm	04/2007