Kai Hertel

	Office:	Cauerstraße 11 Room 00.120
	E-mail:	kai.hertel at cs.fau.de
	Phone:	+49 9131 85 67291
	Fax:	+49 9131 85 28928
	Address:	Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Lehrstuhl Informatik 10 (Systemsimulation) Cauerstraße 11 D-91058 Erlangen

Research Interests

• Modeling with differential equations
• Numerical methods for wave propagation, energy and mass transport
• Applications to electrodynamics and fluid mechanics
• Domain decomposition and scalability
• Mathematical image processing

• LightWave (KONWIHR) and LIST projects
• Extrapolation methods for iterative Maxwell solvers
• Simulation of silicon thin-film solar cells
• Computational synthesis of interface textures
• Performance analysis and code optimization for highly parallel applications
• Supervision of a bachelor thesis on GPGPU simulations for Maxwell problems
• Geometric transforms in structural mechanics
• Teaching recitations in functional analysis for engineers (3 semesters)
• Supervision and mentoring for seminars on solar energy (4 semesters)

Publications

• Image Processing Algorithms Incorporating Textures for the Segmentation of Satellite Data based upon the Finite Element Method, Diploma Thesis, 03.2009