Andreas Wiegmann, PhD
(University of Washington)
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Room: F2.03
Interests
Microstructure Simulation and Virtual Material Design
Elastostatic design problems
Member: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Member: International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
Member: American Filtration and Separation Society

Graduates
Explicit Jump Immersed Interface Methods
(with Vita Rutka , her dissertation )
Level set methods
(with Ashok K. Vaikuntam, his dissertation )
Ray Cast rendering
(with Matthias Gross ,his Dissertation )
Projects &
Products

GeoDict: structure generator and property predictor

Publications

[20]  Estimating effective thermal conductivity
      in carbon paper diffusion media
      N. Zamel, X. Li, J. Shen, J. Becker and A. Wiegmann
      Chemical Engineering Science, 2010. Abstract. 

[19]  Virtual Diesel Particulate Filters: Simulation of the Structure, 
      Exhaust Gas Flow and Particle Deposition
      S. Rief, D. Kehrwald, A. Latz, K. Schmidt and A. Wiegmann
      Filtration, No. 4, Vol. 9, 2009, pp 315-320. Abstract. 

[18]  Estimation of the effective conductivities of complex cast iron
      microstructures using FIB-tomographic analysis
      A. Velichko, A. Wiegmann, F. Mücklich
      Acta Materialia, Vol. 57, 2009, pp 5023-5035. Abstract. 

[17]  Struktur und Druckverlust realer und virtueller Drahtgewebe
      E. Glatt, S. Rief, A. Wiegmann, M. Knefel and E. Wegenke 
      Filtrieren und Separieren, No. 2, Vol. 23, 2009, pp 61-65. 
      Abstract. 

[16]  A Lattice Boltzmann Method for immiscible multiphase flow
      simulations using the Level Set Method 
      G. Thömmes, J. Becker, A.K. Vaikuntam, D. Kehrwald, 
      A. Klar, K. Steiner, M.Junk and A. Wiegmann
      Journal of Computational Physics, 228, 2009, pp 1139-1156.
      Abstract. 

[15]  Numerical Determination of Two-Phase Material Parameters
      of a Gas Diffusion Layer Using Tomography Images 
      J. Becker, V. Schulz and A. Wiegmann
      Journal of fuel cell science and technology, No. 2,
      Vol. 5, 2008, pp 21006-21014. Abstract. 

[14]  Calculation of the Evolution of Surface Area and Free
      Volume During the Infiltration of Fiber Felts
      A. Pfrang, K. Schladitz, A. Wiegmann and Th. Schimmel,
      Chemical Vapor Deposition, No. 12, Vol. 13, 2007,
      pp 705-715. Abstract.

[13]  3D Simulation of Macroscopic heat and mass transfer properties
      from the microstructure of wood fibre networks
      H. Thoemen, T. Walther and A. Wiegmann,
      Composites Science and Technology, No. 3-4,
      Vol. 68, 2007, pp 608-616. Abstract.

[12]  Explicit Jump Immersed Interface Method for virtual material
      design of the effective elastic moduli of composite materials 
      V. Rutka and A. Wiegmann, Numerical Algorithms. 
      No. 4, Vol. 340, 2007, pp 309-330. Abstract. 

[11]  Modeling of Two-phase Behavior in the Gas Diffusion Medium of 
      Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells via Full Morphology Approach
      V.P. Schulz, P.P. Mukherjee, J. Becker, A. Wiegmann and C.Y. Wang,
      Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Issue 4, Vol. 154, 2007,
      pp B419-B426. Abstract.

[10]  Design of acoustic trim based on geometric modeling
      and flow simulation for non-woven
      K. Schladitz, S. Peters, D. Reinel-Bitzer, A. Wiegmann and J. Ohser,
      Computational Materials Science, No. 1, Vol. 38, 2006, pp 56-66.
      Abstract.

[9]   Research Note: Computer Simulations of air Filtration including
      Electric Surface Charges in 3-dimensional fibrous microstructures 
      S. Rief, A. Latz and A. Wiegmann,
      Filtration, No. 2, Vol. 6, 2006, pp 169-172. Abstract.

[8]   Virtuelles Filtermaterialdesign mit GeoDict/FilterDict 
      A. Latz and A. Wiegmann,
      Laboratory IT User service, No. 1, Vol. 1, 2004. Abstract.

[7]   Structural Boundary Design via Level Set and Immersed Interface Methods
      J. A. Sethian and A. Wiegmann.
      Journal of Computational Physics, No. 2, Vol. 163, 2000,
      pp 489-528. Abstract. 

[6]   Analytic solutions of a multi-interface transmission problem
      and crack approximation
      A. Wiegmann,
      Inverse Problems, No. 2, Vol. 16, 2000, pp 401-411. Abstract. 

[5]   The Explicit Jump Immersed Interface Method: Finite Difference
      Methods for PDE with piecewise smooth solutions 
      A. Wiegmann and K.P. Bube,
      SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, No. 3,
      Vol. 37, 2000, pp 827-862. Abstract.

[4]   Crack jump conditions for elliptic problems
      A. Wiegmann, Z. Li and R.J. LeVeque,
      Applied Mathematics Letters, No. 6, Vol. 12, 
      1999, pp 81-88. Abstract. 

[3]   Recovery of small Perturbations of an Interface for an 
      Elliptic Inverse Problem viaLinearization
      C.F. Tolmasky and A. Wiegmann,
      Inverse Problems, No. 2, Vol. 15, 1999, pp 465-487. Abstract. 

[2]   The immersed interface method for nonlinear differential equations
      with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources 
      A. Wiegmann and K.P. Bube,
      SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, No. 1, Vol. 35, 1998, 
      pp 177-200. Abstract. 

[1]   The Explicit Jump Immersed Interface Method and
      Interface Problems for Differential Equations
      A. Wiegmann, Dissertation, 1998. Abstract. 

Conferences,
Meetings,
Trade fairs

[C34] Two-Phase Behavior and Compression Effect in the PEFC Gas Diffusion Medium
      P. P. Mukherjee, C. Y. Wang, V. P. Schulz, Q. Kang, J. Becker and A. Wiegmann
      ECS Transactions, No. 1, Vol. 25, 2009, pp 1485-1494. Abstract. 

[C33] On Coupled Particle Level and Filter Element Level Simulation
      for Filtration Processes
      Z. Lakdawala, O. Iliev, S. Rief and A. Wiegmann
      Filtech, Wiesbaden, Deutschland, Vol. 1, 2009, pp 324-328. Paper. 

[C32] Microstructure Simulation of Virtual Woven Filter Media
      S. Rief, E. Glatt and A. Wiegmann
      Filtech, Wiesbaden, Deutschland, Vol. 1, 2009, pp 231-238. Paper. Abstract. 

[C31] Simulation of DPF Media, Soot Deposition and Pressure Drop Evolution
      K. Schmidt, S. Rief and A. Wiegmann
      Filtech, Wiesbaden, Deutschland, Vol. 2, 2009, pp 74-80. Paper. Abstract. 

[C30] Nano Filtration Media - Challenges of Modelling and Computer Simulation
      L. Cheng, S. Rief and  A. Wiegmann
      Filtech, Wiesbaden, Deutschland, Vol. 2, 2009, pp 413-419. Paper. Abstract. 

[C29] Toward Predicting Filtration and Separation: Progress & Challenges
      A. Wiegmann, S. Rief, A. Latz and O. Iliev
      Filtech, Wiesbaden, Deutschland, Vol. 1, 2009, pp 48-63. Paper. Abstract. 

[C28] Design of Pleated Filters by Computer Simulations
      A. Wiegmann, L. Cheng, E. Glatt, O. Iliev and S. Rief
      Annual Meeting of the American Filtration & Separation Society 2009,
      Minneapolis, MN, USA. Abstract. 

[C27] Simulation studies of deposition mechanisms for aerosol particles
      in fibrous filters including slip flow
      A. Wiegmann, K. Schmidt, S. Rief, L. Cheng and A. Latz
      Proceedings of the 10th World Filtration Congress, III-127, 
      Leipzig, April 2008. Abstract. 

[C26] Simulation of ceramic DPF media, soot deposition filtration
      efficiency and pressure drop evolution
      S. Rief, D. Kehrwald, K. Schmidt, A. Wiegmann
      Proceedings of the 10th World Filtration Congress, III-318, 
      Leipzig, April 2008. Abstract. 

[C25] Setting a new milestone in filter media design: Simulating performance
      according to multi pass test based on 3D fiber structures
      M.J. Lehmann, H. Banzhaf, G.-M. Klein, M. Durst S. Rief and A. Wiegmann,
      Proceedings of the 10th World Filtration Congress, I-326, 
      Leipzig, April 2008. Abstract. 

[C24] On coupled micro- and macro simulation for Filtration Processes
      Z. Lakdawala, O. Iliev and A. Wiegmann,
      Proceedings of the 10th World Filtration Congress, I-285, 
      Leipzig, April 2008. Abstract. 

[C23] Reliable Use of Numerical Methods in Upfront Simulations
      S. Rief, D. Kehrwald, K. Schmidt and A. Wiegmann,
      NAFEMS, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2007. Paper. 

[C22] Design of fibrous filter media based on the simulation of pore size measures
      J. Becker, A. Wiegmann and V.P. Schulz,
      Filtech, Wiesbaden, Deutschland, 2007. Paper. 

[C21] Computational Study of Pressure Drop Dependence on Pleat Shape and Filter Media
      A. Wiegmann, S. Rief, and  D. Kehrwald,
      Filtech, Wiesbaden, Deutschland, 2007. Paper. 

[C20] Effective Properties of Nonwoven Textiles from Microstructure Simulation
      A. Wiegmann,
      Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI, 2006. Abstract. 

[C19] Numerical Evaluation of Effective Gas Diffusivity - Saturation Dependence
      of Uncompressed and Compressed Gas Diffusion Media in PEFCs
      V.P. Schulz, P.P. Mukherjee, J. Becker, A. Wiegmann and C.-Y. Wang, 
      Annual Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Cancun, Mexico, 2006. 
      In: Proceedings of the 210th ECS Meeting, 
      edited by T. Fuller, C. Bock, S. Cleghorn, H. Gasteiger, T. Jarvi, 
      M. Mathias, M. Murthy, T. Nguyen, V. Ramani, E. Stuve and T. Zawodzinski.
      No. 1, Volume 3, 2006, pp 1069-1076. Abstract. 

[C18] Soot Filtration Simulation - Generation of Porous Media on the
      Micro Scale from Soot Deposition on the Nano Scale 
      A. Wiegmann, S. Rief and A. Latz,
      2nd European Conference on Filtration and Separation, Compiegne, 
      Frankreich, 2006. In: Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference 
      on Filtration and Separation, 2006, pp 141-147.  Abstract. 

[C17] Simulation and Virtual Design of Filter Media and Filter Elements
      S. Rief, O. Iliev, D. Kehrwald, A. Latz, K. Steiner and A. Wiegmann, 
      Filtration in Fahrzeugen, Haus der Technik, Essen, Deutschland, 2006.
      In: Filtration in Fahrzeugen by M. Durst and G.-M. Klein, 
      Haus der Technik Fachbuch, Band 75, 2006, pp 188-202. Paper. 

[C16] Computer Models of Nonwoven Geometry and Filtration 
      Simulation
      A. Wiegmann, S. Rief and A. Latz,
      International Nonwoven Technical Conference, Houston, Texas, 2006. Paper. 

[C15] Design of filter media via simulation
      A. Wiegmann, S. Rief and A. Latz, 
      Symposium Textile Filter, Chemnitz, Deutschland, 2006. Abstract. 

[C14] GeoDict and FilterDict: Software for the Virtual Material Design of new
      Filter Media
      A. Wiegmann, S. Rief and A. Latz, 
      New Developments in Filtration Technology, Loughborough, UK, 2006. Paper.

[C13] Calculation of the evolution of surface area and free volume during
      the infiltration of fiber felts
      A. Pfrang, K. Schladitz, A. Wiegmann and T. Schimmel,
      International Conference on Carbon, Gyeongju, Korea, 2005. Abstract. 

[C12] Computer simulation of air filtration including electric surface
      charges in three-dimensional fibrous microstructures
      S. Rief, A. Latz and A. Wiegmann,
      Filtech, Wiesbaden, Deutschland, 2005. Paper. 

[C11] Explicit jump solvers for virtual material design 
      A. Wiegmann and A. Zemitis,
      International Conference on Scientific Computing, 
      Nanjing, China, 2005. Abstract. 

[C10] Flow, heat conductivity, and gas diffusion in partly
      saturated microstructures
      V. Schulz, D. Kehrwald, A. Wiegmann and K. Steiner
      NAFEMS Seminar: "Simulation of Complex Flows (CFD)",
      Niedernhausen/Wiesbaden, Deutschland, 2005. Abstract. 

[C9]  Virtual Material Design and Air Filtration Simulation Techniques
      inside GeoDict and FilterDict 
      A. Wiegmann, S. Rief and A. Latz,
      American Filtration & Separation Society, annual conference, 
      Atlanta, Georgia, 2005. Paper. 

[C8]  Computersimulation der Tiefenfiltration durch Vliesstoffe
      A. Wiegmann, A. Latz and S. Rief,
      19. Hofer Viesstofftage, Hof, Deutschland, 2004. Paper. 

[C7]  Simulation der Luftfiltration in Mikrostrukturen
      A. Latz and A. Wiegmann,
      Symposium Textile Filter, Chemnitz, Deutschland, 2004. Abstract. 

[C6]  Simulation of fluid particle separation in realistic three
      dimensional fiber structures
      A. Latz and A. Wiegmann,
      Filtech Europa, Düsseldorf, Deutschland, 2003. Abstract. 

[C5]  Computer-Aided Optimization of the acoustic efficiency of Non-Wovens
      for an Integrated Product Policy
      H. Andrä and A. Wiegmann,
      12. International Techtextil-Symposium, Frankfurt, Germany, 2003. 
      Abstract. 

[C4]  Virtual Textil Design for an Integrated Product Policy
      A. Wiegmann and A. Latz,
      12. Internationales Techtextil-Symposium, Frankfurt, Germany, 2003. 
      Abstract. 

[C3]  Computer Modelling and Design of Non-Woven acoustical Trim
      H. Andrä and A. Wiegmann,
      Vibro Acoustics Users Conference Europe, Leuven, Belgium, 2003. Abstract. 

[C2]  A fast finite difference method for elliptic PDEs in domains with
      non-grid aligned boundaries with application to 3D linear elasticity  
      V. Rutka and A. Wiegmann, ECMI, Riga, Latvia, 2002. Abstract. 

[C1]  Präparation und Schallabsorptionsoptimierung von verpressten Polyestervliesen
      C. Maas, F. Mücklich and A. Wiegmann,
      International Conference on materialography, Saarbrücken, Deutschland, 
      2000. Abstract. 

Technical
Reports

[R16] Simulation der Rußfiltration und Optimierung des Gefügedesigns
      im Forschungsvorhaben: Thermochemisch resistentes Cordierit
      für Dieselpartikelfilter (CorTRePa)
      K. Schmidt, S. Rief, A. Wiegmann and D. Kehrwald
      Final Report of the Fraunhofer ITWM for the BMBF-project CorTRePa, 2009. 
      Abstract. 

[R15] Structure and pressure drop of real and virtual metal wire meshes
      E. Glatt, S. Rief, A. Wiegmann, M. Knefel and E. Wegenke
      Report of the Fraunhofer ITWM, Nr. 157, 2009. Appeared as [17]. Abstract. 

[R14] Design of pleated filters by computer simulations
      A. Wiegmann, L. Cheng, E. Glatt, O. Iliev and S. Rief
      Report of the Fraunhofer ITWM, Nr. 155, 2009.  
      Abstract. 

[R13] A Lattice Boltzmann Method for immiscible multiphase flow simulations
      using the Level Set Method
      G. Thömmes, J. Becker, M. Junk, A.K. Vaikuntam, D. Kehrwald, 
      A. Klar, K. Steiner, A. Wiegmann
      Report of the Fraunhofer ITWM, Nr. 134, 2008. Appeared as [16]. Abstract. 

[R12] Computation of the permeability of porous materials from
      their microstructure by FFF-Stokes 
      A. Wiegmann,
      Report of the Fraunhofer ITWM, Nr. 129, 2007. Abstract. 

[R11] EJ-HEAT: A Fast Explicit Jump Harmonic Averaging Solver for
      the Effective Heat Conductivity of Composite Materials
      A. Wiegmann and A. Zemitis,
      Report of the Fraunhofer ITWM, Nr. 94, 2006. Abstract. 

[R10] Explicit Jump Immersed Interface Method for calculation
      of effective elastic moduli in 3D linear elasticity 
      V. Rutka, A. Wiegmann and H. Andrä,
      Report of the Fraunhofer ITWM, Nr. 93, 2006. Abstract. 

[R9]  Explicit Jump Immersed Interface Method for virtual material design of
      the effective elastic moduli of composite materials
      V. Rutka and A. Wiegmann,
      Report of the Fraunhofer ITWM, Nr. 73, 2005. Appeared as [12]. Abstract. 

[R8]  Design of acoustic trim based on geometric modeling and flow simulation
      for non-woven 
      K. Schladitz, S. Peters, D. Reinel-Bitzer, A. Wiegmann and J.Ohser, 
      Report of the Fraunhofer ITWM, Nr. 72, 2005. Appeared as [10]. Abstract. 

[R7]  Structural Boundary Design via Level Set and Immersed Interface Methods
      J.A. Sethian and A. Wiegmann, CPAM Report,
      PAM-771, 1999. Appeared as [7]. Abstract. 

[R6]  Fast elliptic solvers on rectangular parallelepipeds 
      A. Wiegmann,
      LBNL Technical Report, Nr.43565, 1999. Submitted. Abstract. 

[R5]  The Immersed Interface Method and Integral Formulas
      A. Wiegmann,
      LBNL Technical Report, Nr.43566, 1999. Submitted. Abstract. 

[R4]  A multi-interface transmission problem and crack approximation 
      A. Wiegmann,
      LBNL Technical Report, Nr.42875, 1999. An early version of [6]. Abstract. 

[R3]  Edges are image discontinuities - fast filtering
      based on explicit - jump multiscale analysis
      A. Sarti and A. Wiegmann,
      LBNL Technical Report, Nr.42373, 1998. Abstract. 

[R2]  Crack jump conditions for elliptic problems
      A. Wiegmann, Z. Li and R.J. LeVeque,
      LBNL Technical Report, Nr. 41863, 1998. Appeared as [4]. Abstract. 

[R1]  The Explicit Jump Immersed Interface Method: Finite Difference Methods 
      for PDE with piecewise smooth solutions
      A. Wiegmann and K.P. Bube. Seminarberichte aus dem Fachbereich Mathematik 
      der Fernuniversität Gesamthochschule Hagen, Band 62, Teil 2, 1997.
      An early version of [5]. Abstract. 

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