Georg May

Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Aerospace Department

von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Waterloosesteenweg 72
1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode

Phone: +32 2 359 98 68

Biography

Education

2006 - Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, USA

2001 Dipl.-Ing., Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen, Germany

2000 B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Dartmouth College, USA

Career

since 2019 Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Aerospace Department, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium

2014 – 2019 Professor (W2), Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen, Germany

2009 – 2014 Junior Professor (W1), Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen, Germany

2007 – 2009 Junior Research Group Leader, Graduate School AICES, RWTH Aachen, Germany

2006 – 2007 Research Associate, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, USA

Professional Activity

Editor
- Applications of Mathematics (Appl. Mat.), Springer-Verlag.
Board Duty
- Examination board, M.Sc. program Simulation Sciences at RWTH Aachen (2015-2019)
- Deputy Scientific Director (2009-2010) Graduate School AICES
Committees
- Director VKI Lecture Series Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (2020)
- Scientific Committee, Aachen Conference on Computational Engineering
- Science AC.CES 2013, 2015, 2017
- Organizing Committee, International Workshop on High-Order CFD Methods (HiOCFD) 2012, 2013, 2015
- AICES steering committee (intermittently, on a rotating basis)
- Doctoral thesis committees: 5 (as Advisor), 5 (as Reviewer), 4 (as Chairman)
- Faculty Tenure Commissions (2)
- Faculty Appointment Commissions (2)
Peer review
- 21 certified reviews (cf. https://publons.com/a/1246715)
- e.g. Journal of Computational Physics, Computer Methods in Applied
- Mechanics and Engineering, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing,
- Computers and Fluids, Applied Mathematics and Computation
- Publon score: 86% percentile, as of March 2020

Externally Funded Projects (as PI/Co-PI)

since 2018 IRTG 2379 International Research Training Group: Modern Inverse Problems. Jointly with with UT Austin. https://blog.rwth-aachen.de/irtg-mip/

2012 – 2018 DFG GSC 111: Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science (AICES), Graduate School established in the frame of the German Excellence Initiative. https://www.aices.rwth-aachen.de/en/

2009 – 2012 BMBF 0315416D: Medical systems biology: From multi-scale models to tangible predictors of clinical outcome in oncology therapies. Joint project with partners from academia (U Heidelberg) and industry (Bayer Technology Services, Bayer Schering Pharma)

2008 – 2013 EOARD FA8655-08-1-3060: High order methods for compressible viscous flow on unstructured meshes: New discretization techniques and algorithms. Single Project.

Doctoral Thesis Supervision

as Main Advisor
since 10/2018 Ankit Chakraborty. Thesis (ongoing): “Metric-based anisotropic adaptation for optimal Petrov-Galerkin methods”
since 10/2016 Ajay M. Rangarajan. Thesis (ongoing): “Metric-Based hp-adaptation using a continuous mesh model”
01/2014 – 09/2017 Dr. rer. nat. Mohammad S. Zakerzadeh. Thesis: “Stable and Convergent Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Hyperbolic and Viscous Conservation Laws”. Now: Postdoc at INRIA, Paris
01/2011 – 05/2016 Dr.-Ing. Aravind Balan. Thesis: “Adjoint-Based hp-Adaptivity on Anisotropic Meshes for High-Order Compressible Flow Simulations” . Now: Postdoc at NASA Langley, VA.
11/2012 – 12/2015 Michael Woopen. Thesis (Defence Pending): “A Hybridized Adaptive Method for Compressible Flow Simulation” . Now: Head of Aerothermal at Aero DesignWorks GmbH, Cologne

as Co-Advisor
07/2009 – 06/2013 Dr. rer. nat. Sonia Vivas Preto. Thesis: “Genomic and Clinical Data Correlation for Relapse Prediction in Cancer Samples”. Now: Biostatistics Specialist at Molecular Health GmbH, Heidelberg
09/2008 – 09/2011 Dr. rer. nat. Jochen Sch¨ utz. Thesis: “A Hybrid Mixed Finite Element Scheme for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations and Adjoint-Based Error Control for Target Functionals” . Now: Professor, University Hasselt, Belgium
12/2007 – 08/2011 Dr.-Ing. Francesca Iacono. Thesis: “High-Order Adaptive Methods for Convection-Dominated Nonlinear Problems Using Multilevel Solution Techniques”. Now: Industrial Integration Manager, AIRBUS, Hamburg Germany

Master Thesis Supervision

2020 Koen Devesse. “Implementing a multi-species flow model in a Hybridized Discontinuous Galerkin framework.”
2018 Ankit Chakraborty. “A Continuous-Mesh Optimization Technique for Piecewise Polynomial Approximation in Tetrahedral Grids.”
2018 Dongwei Ye. “Computational Modeling of Flow and Solute Transport Along the Nephrons in Kidney.” External with Universit ¨ at Z¨ urich
2017 Martin P. Neuenhofen. “A restarted GMRES-based Implementation of IDR(s)stab(l) to Yield Higher Robustness.”
2016 Srikanth Gopalakrishnan. “Modeling Bimaterial Interfaces with X-FEM.” External with EFREI, Paris
2015 Ajay M. Rangarajan. “Anisotropic Mesh Optimization for Higher Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods Using a Continuous Mesh Model.”
2015 Ricardo Avila Ibarra. “Brake Cooling System Model Enhancement Through Boundary Conditions Sensitivity Analysis.” External with Altair Engineering GmbH
2015 Henrik Barthels. “Systematic Generation of Algorithms for Iterative Methods.”
2013 Mohammad S. Zakerzadeh. “Analysis of a Shock-Capturing Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws.”
2013 Nikhil Anand. “Implementation and Validation of a Shock-Capturing Method for the Spectral Difference Method.”
2012 Michael Woopen. “An Adaptive Discretization of the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations Using Hybridization.”