Zürich, September 2022

Philipp Öffner

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. 



I hold the position as a full professor in numerical mathematics at TU Clauthal. Prior to joining TU Clausthal, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the University of Zurich and the Technical University of Brunswick. 

My research primarily revolves around the examination and advancement of numerical techniques applicable to ordinary and partial differential equations, with a specific focus on hyperbolic conservation/balance laws. I dedicate my efforts to exploring stability characteristics, the maintenance of physical constraints, and the approximation and convergence properties of these methods. To support my theoretical findings, I consistently complement them with numerical simulations.




Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests


  • Numerical Methods for Compressible Flows (Continuous and Discontinuous Galerkin, Residual Distribution, Flux Reconstruction, Finite Difference, Finite Volume, Global and Local Radial Basis Function Methods)
  • Time Integration Schemes (Runge-Kutta, Deferred Correction, ADER, modified Patankar and GeCo schemes)
  • Uncertainty Quantification 
  • Approximation Theory
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Data-driven approaches combining analysis and data
  • Scientific Machine Learning 
  • Scientific Computing
    Research Projects

    News:


    • I was promoted to Full Professor (W3) of Numerical Mathematics at TU Clausthal on February 7, 2025.

    • Last week (9-13.12.2024), I gave a talk at TU Clausthal about structure preserving FE schemes, two papers have been accepted and we submitted a paper about convergence of numerical schemes for the stochastic Euler equations. The week turned out to be quite productive.

    • Today, December 3, 2024, I accepted the offer from TU Clausthal for the full professorship.

    • Together with D. Kuzmin, H. Hajduk, and G. Lube, I have submitted a paper titled "Locally Energy-Stable Finite Element Schemes for Incompressible Flow Problems: Design and Analysis for Equal-Order Interpolations." The preprint is available at arXiv.

    • The paper "On the robustness of high-order upwind summation-by-parts methods for nonlinear conservation laws" has been accepted in JCP (30.9.2025). The preprint can be found here.

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