Dear students,
in our work group foam extrusion at the Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV) a position is advertised for a master’s thesis dealing with foam extrusion modelling. The announcement can be found enclosed. It is aimed at everyone who is interested in an interesting and application-oriented task in plastics modelling. The work can be started immediately and can be carried out mostly from the home office. If you have any questions or if you are interested in the topic, please feel free to contact me.
Best regards
Robert
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Robert Breuer, M.Sc.
Foam extrusion
Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV)
in Industry and Craft at RWTH Aachen University
Seffenter Weg 201 | 52074 Aachen | Germany
Phone: +49 241 80-28354
Fax: +49 241 80-92262
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November 9, 2020
Monday 4 pm - 5 pm
Zoom Meeting
SSD Seminar Series Winter 2020/2021
Prof. Ramon Codina, Ph.D.
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Reduced Order Models for Flow Problems: Stabilization and Accuracy Enhancement<https://blog.rwth-aachen.de/irtg-mip/event/ssd-seminar-series-with-prof-ram…>
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During the past year, our group - the Computer Animation group led by
Prof. Jan Bender - has published two papers built on top of an in-house
library for the Finite Element Method (FEM). We are now working on
refactoring and restructuring this library so that it is suitable for
publishing under an open-source license.
The library is written in Rust, a safe and modern alternative to C and
C++. In brief, Rust allows you to write code as fast as C/C++, yet
without the burden of dealing with broken build systems, undefined
behavior, segmentation faults and data races for parallel code. This
allows us to spend more time developing and substantially less time
debugging. Our library will - to the best of our knowledge - be the
first publicly available FEM library in Rust, and we want you to help us
develop it. Once published, we intend to follow an open-source
development model, where contributions are made as pull requests to a
publicly available Git repository.
Our group is multi-disciplinary: we study the simulation of deformable
solids, constrained rigid bodies, fluids and related tasks, such as
reconstructing meshes from implicitly defined surfaces. As a HiWi in our
group working on this project, you will have the chance to work on a
variety of topics, depending on your interests. Some of the topics
relevant for the library are:
- Finite Element Method (FEM) for non-linear deformable solids.
- Parallel programming: FEM assembly, sparse matrix algorithms,
solutions of linear systems.
- Geometry tasks: Geometry processing, collision detection, distance
queries.
- Frictional contact mechanics.
- Input/output: Importing and exporting time series of textured 3D
models and auxiliary data, compatibility with 3D software like Maya and
Blender.
- Software development practices and documentation.
We are looking for highly motivated candidates that:
- have knowledge about and a strong interest in physics simulation.
- have a strong interest in, and are comfortable with, programming.
- are interested in working closely in a team with PhD students and
other HiWis.
- are able to work and learn independently with regular (or sometimes
irregular) supervision.
- have a decent grasp of both spoken and written English.
- are in their Bachelor or Master studies, ideally with the possibility
of working with us over a longer period of time.
- preferably have some experience with FEM, but we are also interested
in strong candidates who are interested in helping out with the non-FEM
parts of the library.
Experience with Rust is not a requirement, as we will provide the
necessary training and time to get up to speed. Experience with Rust or
C++ is, however, an advantage.
We offer:
- salary regulated by standard HiWi rates.
- approx. 10 hours per week, but this is negotiable.
- the opportunity to work on an open-source project, which you can
demonstrate to future employers.
- friendly colleagues.
If you are curious about the position and have questions, please drop
Andreas Longva an e-mail at longva(a)cs.rwth-aachen.de. Applicants should
send a brief letter of motivation, their CV and a transcript of their
grades to Prof. Jan Bender at bender(a)cs.rwth-aachen.de. Since we employ
HiWis for multiple purposes, please make it clear in your application if
you are particularly interested in working on the Rust FEM project.