Axel Gerstenberger

Simulation and HPC Software Specialist

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

Experience

  • Design System Engineer at Rolls-Royce
    2012 - Present · 14 yrs 6 mos

    - Develop, maintain, and support simulation and post-processing capabilities for 3D CFD and multi-physics application - Leading and working in research projects to further in-house simulation capabilities - Introducing and supporting large-scale software testing and integration frameworks - Technical HPC cluster administration

  • Postdoctoral Appointee at Sandia National Laboratories
    2010 - 2012 · 2 yrs

    Research topics: - algebraic multigrid methods for fracture mechanics - multimaterial simulation for CO2-sequestration - extended finite element method - discontinuous Galerkin methods - algebraic multigrid methods - parallel computing

  • Research Assistent at Technische Universität München
    2005 - 2010 · 5 yrs

    - Developed, prototyped, and implemented XFEM capabilities in parallel, multi-physics code - Responsible for more than 20000 lines of templated C++ and Python code - Taught seminar on Finite Elements and supervised six Bachelor's and Master's students - PhD thesis

  • Research Assistent at Northwestern University
    2002 - 2004 · 2 yrs

    - Developed and implemented simulation tools for fluid-structure interaction - Extended mesh-free CFD software by adaptive refinement techniques

  • Internship at Framatome ANP GmbH
    Oct 2001 - Feb 2002 · 5 mos

    - Applied homogenization methods to improve run-time performance of CFD models