Robert Schneiders 

      Dr. Robert Schneiders
      MAGMA Giessereitechnologie GmbH
      Kackertstr. 11
      52072 Aachen
      Germany
      email: R.Schneiders@magmasoft.de (office)
             robert.schneiders@arcor.de (private)
      phone: +49-241-88901-13
      fax: +49-241-88901-60

I started to work for MAGMA on April 15, 1997. At MAGMA, we work on the MAGMASOFT package, a suite of programs that allows for the simulation of casting processes. My field is mesh generation and pre-/postprocessing in general.

The following links give some applications of our MAGMASOFT package:

  • Julie Huang's Ph.D. research at Northwestern University, Chicago, is on the prediction of porosity defects in aluminium castings. More information on the project can be found here.

  • The ParMag project is a joint project of MAGMA, GMD SCAI and ITWM: Development of a parallel MAGMASOFT version. Par= Pac is another joint project on parallel particle methods for the simulation of flow in complex structures.

    • In the years before I was research assistant at the Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Mathematik, insbesondere Informatik at RWTH Aachen ("RWTH" means "rhenanian-westphalian technical university"). My interests were in mesh generation, finite element methods, cfd, simulation of metal forming processes and multiscale techniques. I specialized on the generation of hexahedral element meshes, and I wrote my PhD thesis on this topic. Please check my old homepage for more information.

    I maintain a WWW-page with general information on mesh generation (people, books, conferences etc.). If you are interested in mesh generation, it might help you.

    Some interesting links:

  • Institut für Geometrie und praktische Mathematik, RWTH Aachen

  • Meshing Research Corner

  • Irmgard Dittrich, RWTH Aachen

  • SIAM

  • IEEE Computational Science & Engineering

    • Some publications:

    1. Robert Schneiders, Jürgen Debye (1994): Refinement Algorithms for Unstructured Quadrilateral or Brick Element Meshes. Proceedings IMA Workshop on Modeling, Mesh Generation and Adaptive Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations.

    2. Robert Schneiders: Automatic generation of hexahedral element meshes. Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Meshing Roundtable, October 16-17, 1995 Albuquerque, New Mexico

    3. Robert Schneiders: A grid-based algorithm for the generation of hexahedral element meshes. Engineering with Computers 3, pp. 168-177 (1996).

    4. R. Schneiders, R. Schindler and F. Weiler: Octree-based Generation of Hexahedral Element Meshes. Proceedings 5th International Meshing Roundtable, Pittsburgh, USA (1996)

    5. R. Schneiders: Refining Quadrilateral and Hexahedral Element Meshes. Proceedings NUMIGRID 96, Eds. B.K. Soni, J.F. Thompson, J. Haeuser and P. Eiseman, ISBN 0-9651627-0-2, pp. 679-689 (1996)

    6. Ko-Foa Tchon, Charles Hirsch and Robert Schneiders: Octree-Based Hexahedral Mesh Generation for Viscous Flow Simulations. Proceedings 13th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Snowmass, CO (1997)

    7. Robert Schneiders: Algorithmen zur Generierung von Vierecks- und Hexaedernetzen. Proceedings der Sommerschule über Gittergenerierung und Datenstrukturen, 8.-12.9.97, TU Hamburg-Harburg.

    8. Quadrilateral and Hexahedral Element Meshes. Handbook of Grid Generation , CRC Press, 1999 (ISBN 0-8493-2687-7).

    9. Algorithms for Quadrilateral and Hexahedral Mesh Generation. Proceedings of the VKI Lecture Series on Computational Fluid Dynamic, 20-24 March 2000. VKI-LS 2000-4.

    10. Octree-based hexahedral mesh generation. To appear in International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, special issue on mesh generation.

    The colourful world of scientific computing:

  • Finite Elements at Swansea

  • CFDRC

  • Aerosoft

  • ACE Lab Images and Movies

  • Science comes alive

  • TICAM, University of Texas at Austin

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