Research Interests

The research focus of Prof. Rabczuk is Computational Solid Mechanics with emphasis on method development for problems involving fracture and failure of solids and fluid-structure interaction.

Prof. Rabczuk is particularly interested in developing multiscale methods and their application to computational materials design.

• Constitutive Modeling
• Material Instabilities, Fracture, Strain Localization
• Numerical Methods (Extended Finite Element and Mesfhree Methods)
• Isogeometric Analysis
• Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction
• Biomechanical Engineering

Research Grants: EU - FP7

• 2013 ERC-CoG (5 years, 2,000,000 Euro): Computational Modeling and Design of Lithium-ion Batteries (COMBAT), start: 1.6.2014
• 2013 Coordinator and Scientist in Charge of the Marie-Curie International Incoming Fellowship (IIF) of Dr. Xiaoying Zhuang (2 years, 160,000 Euro): Computational Multiscale Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing for shale gas development (HYDROFRAC), start envisioned: 1.7.2014
• 2011 Coordinator of the FP7-ITN (Initial Training Network): Integrating Numerical Simulation and Geometric Design Technology (INSIST), 3,850,000 Euro (4 years), 12 ESRs (3 years each) and 2 ERs (30 months), 3 industrial partners and 3 academic partners, start 1.1.2012
• 2010 Coordinator of the FP7-IRSES grant MultiFrac (4 years, 250,000 Euro), start 1.7.2011

Research Grants: DFG

• 2013 DFG grant RA 1946/17-1 (1 year): International Collaboration (Tongji University, China): Ein dreidimensionales thermo-mechanisches Rissmodell basierend auf PU-Methoden, start: 1.1.2014
• 2013 DFG grant RA 1946/16-1 (3 years): Eine dreidimensionale Mehrskalenmethode zurModellierung vonMaterialversagen in Nano-Verbundwerkstoffen, start: 201
• 2012 DFG grant RA 1946/14-1: International Collaboration (Jordan): Physics based virtual surgery approach using the point collocation method of finite spheres
• 2011 DFG grant RA 1946/10-1 (3 years): Eine elektro-mechanische XFEMFormulierung f¨ur Vorw¨artsprobleme und inverse Probleme, start: 22.12.20
• 2011 DFG grant RA 1946/8-1 (2 years): Eine MD-XFEM Kopplung zur Simulation von quasi-spr¨odem Materialversagen, start: 1.2.2012
• 2011 DFG grant PO 405/13-1: Europ¨aische Nachwuchsakademie (1 year): 'Multiscale methods for fracture in nanocomposites', start 1.12.2011 (Dr. Yancheng Zhang)
• 2010 DFG grant RA 1946/5-1 (3 years): Eine neue netzfreie Methode zur Modellierung von duktilem Materialversagen, start 1.4.2011
• 2009 DFG grant RA 1946/4-1:Workshop Technology and Society: Simulationsverfahren-Forschung f¨ur die Gesellschaft (6000 Euro)
• 2009 DFG grant RA 1946/3-1 (3 years): Robuste FSI-Verfahren f¨ur versagende d¨unne Strukturen, start 1.3.201
• 2009 DFG grant RA 1946/2-1 (3 years): EinMehrskalenansatz zurModellierungquasi-spr¨oden Materialversagens, start 1.3.2010
• 2009 Aufnahme als Antragsteller im Graduiertenkolleg 'Bewertung gekoppelter numerischer Partialmodelle im konstruktiven Ingenieurbau'

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