Rolf Rannacher

Rolf Rannacher

Rolf Rannacher (born June 10, 1948 in Leipzig ) is a German mathematician. He is Professor of Numerical Mathematics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Rannacher studied mathematics and physics at the University of Frankfurt and received his doctorate there in 1974 under Friedrich Stummel (discrete perturbation theory for the point system of linear operators and sesquilinear forms with applications to operators of the Schrödinger type). He then worked as an assistant at the University of Bonn with Jens Frehse and completed his habilitation in 1978. He then spent a year at the University of Michigan before becoming a professor at the University of Erlangen in 1980. In 1983 he became professor in Saarbrücken and in 1988 in Heidelberg.

He dealt in particular with the numerical analysis of the finite element method (FEM) in partial differential equations (PDE) based on functional analytical methods, for example error estimation in the standard for FEM approximation of elliptical boundary value tasks . He also dealt with computational fluid mechanics including software development for high-performance computers, for a long time in collaboration with John Haywood . In the 1990s, he worked on adaptive grid refinement in solving optimal control problems . He worked with Claes Johnson and Endre Süli . At the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) Heidelberg, he was also involved early on in the development of parallel computer algorithms (at the beginning of the 1990s on the basis of Transputer ). ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {L}}^{\infty }}$

In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin . He is an honorary doctorate from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2009).

Fonts (selection)

• with Wolfgang Bangerth: Adaptive finite element methods for differential equations, Birkhäuser 2003
• Editor with Georg Bader, Gabriel Wittum: Numerical Algorithms on Transputer Systems, Teubner / Vieweg 1993
• Editor with Willi Jäger , Jürgen Warnatz: Reactive Flows, Diffusion and Transport: From Experiments via Mathematical Modeling to Numerical Simulation and Optimization. Final Report SFB 359, Springer 2006 (the SFB existed from 1993 to 2004)
• Editor with others: Trends in PDE Constrained Optimization, Birkhäuser 2014
• Editor with others: Constrained Optimization and Optimal Control for Partial Differential Equations, Birkhäuser 2012
• Editor with Wolfgang Hackbusch : Numerical Treatment of the Navier-Stokes Equations (Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics), Vieweg 1990
• Editor with Guido Kanschat a. a .: Numerical Methods in Multidimensional Radiative Transfer, Springer 2009
• Editor with Giovanni Galdi : Fundamental Trends in Fluid-Structure Interaction, World Scientific 2010
• Editor with Adélia Sequeida: Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics: Dedicated to Giovanni Paolo Galdi on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, Springer 2010
• Editor with Giovanni Galdi, Malcolm Heywood: Contributions to Current Challenges in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, Birkhäuser 2004
• with Giovanni Galdi, Anne M. Robertson, Stefan Turek: Hemodynamical Flows: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation (Oberwolfach Seminars), Birkhäuser 2007

Web links

• Chair of Numerical Mathematics Heidelberg
• Laudation for an honorary doctorate

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rolf Rannacher in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)