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Dissertation
Analysis of a Coupled Fluid-Elastic Interaction Problem
(2023-01)
In this thesis, a non-linear system of partial differential equations is studied, describing the motions of an elastic structure which is immersed into an incompressible viscous fluid. The displacement of the elastic structure is modelled by a Lamé system and the fluid velocity as well as the fluid pressure are described by the Navier-Stokes equations. The structure and the fluid are coupled via two boundary conditions at the interface which correspond to continuity of velocities and forces. As the elasticity is ...
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Finite Element Simulations for the Design of Therapeutic Approaches for Retinal Diseases
(2022)
The retinal disease age-related macular degeneration is the most common cause of vision loss in industrialized countries. In this thesis, motivated by the drug (antibody) treatment of this disease, we designed long-term three dimensional Finite Element simulations of the drug distribution in the healthy human eye. The underlying model consists of a time-dependent convection-diffusion equation coupled to a stationary Darcy equation describing the flow of the aqueous humor through the vitreous medium. We replaced the ...
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A Unifying Theory for Runge-Kutta-like Time Integrators: Convergence and Stability
(2024)
The work deals with two major topics concerning the numerical analysis of Runge-Kutta-like (RK-like) methods, namely their stability and order of convergence. RK-like methods differ from additive RK methods in that their coefficients are allowed to depend on the solution and the step size. As a result of this, we also refer to them as non-standard additive RK (NSARK) methods. We motivate and introduce modified Patankar (MP) schemes as a subclass of NSARK methods and emphasize their importance. The first major part ...
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Existence and Regularity Results of a Ferroelectric Phase-Field Model
(2019)
In this thesis, we investigate the existence and regularity results of a ferroelectric phase-field model, which is a state-of-the-art model arising in recent years from the engineering area for the ferroelectric study.
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Modeling of human vitreous as viscoelastic fluid considering the orientation of collagen fibers
(2021-11)
For the most common treatment of retinal diseases worldwide by drug distribution in the human vitreous we developed the mathematical model of the vitreous. Compare to previous works we focus on the vitreous as a viscoelastic fluid including its heterogeneous property due to the orientation of collagen fibers. By using the incompressible viscoelastic Burgers-type model based on experimental data as the specific constitutive equation in the setting of continuum mechanics we considered its non-Newtonian nature. This ...
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Mathematical Modelling and Adaptive Finite Element Simulation of Viscoelastic Fluid-Structure Interaction Systems and Chemical Processes with Applications to Ophthalmology
(2023)
The aim of this thesis is the numerical analysis of nonlinear coupled partial differential equations and their application to ophthalmology. Firstly, we consider fluid-structure interaction problems where the fluid is either Newtonian or viscoelastic. The structure is modelled as a hyperelastic material. The application to ophthalmology lies in the interaction of the vitreous with its surrounding elastic structures like the sclera and the lens. The underlying flow in the vitreous is modelled by a viscoelastic Burgers ...
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Automatic computation of continued fraction representations as solutions of explicit differential equations
(2019)
The main focus of this thesis is to present a variation of an algorithm first presented by Maulat and Salvy, with which it is possible to algorithmically guess as well as prove continued fraction expansions of analytical expressions with the help of ordinary differential equations.
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Nichtüberlappende Gebietszerlegungsmethoden für lineare und quasilineare (monotone und nichtmonotone) Probleme
(2009-12-15)
In dieser Arbeit werden nichtüberlappende Gebietszerlegungsmethoden einerseits hinsichtlich der zu lösenden Problemklassen verallgemeinert und andererseits in bisher nicht untersuchten Kontexten betrachtet. Dabei stehen funktionalanalytische Untersuchungen zur Wohldefiniertheit, eindeutigen Lösbarkeit und Konvergenz im Vordergrund.
Im ersten Teil werden lineare elliptische Dirichlet-Randwertprobleme behandelt, wobei neben Problemen mit dominantem Hauptteil auch solche mit singulärer Störung desselben, wie konvektions- ...
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Estimators and Tests based on Likelihood-Depth with Application to Weibull Distribution, Gaussian and Gumbel Copula
(2010-10-12)
In dieser Arbeit werden mithilfe der Likelihood-Tiefen, eingeführt von Mizera und Müller (2004), (ausreißer-)robuste Schätzfunktionen und Tests für den unbekannten Parameter einer stetigen Dichtefunktion entwickelt. Die entwickelten Verfahren werden dann auf drei verschiedene Verteilungen angewandt.
Für eindimensionale Parameter wird die Likelihood-Tiefe eines Parameters im Datensatz als das Minimum aus dem Anteil der Daten, für die die Ableitung der Loglikelihood-Funktion nach dem Parameter nicht negativ ist, ...
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Aspekte der linearen Minimax-Schätzung
(FB 17, Mathematik/Informatik, Angewandte Mathematik, Analysis und Angewandte Mathematik, 2004-07-14)
Es werde das lineare Regressionsmodell y = X b + e mit den ueblichen Bedingungen betrachtet. Weiter werde angenommen, dass der Parametervektor aus einem Ellipsoid stammt. Ein optimaler Schaetzer fuer den Parametervektor ist durch den Minimax-Schaetzer gegeben. Nach der entscheidungstheoretischen Formulierung des Minimax-Schaetzproblems werden mit dem Bayesschen Ansatz, Spektralen Methoden und der Darstellung von Hoffmann und Laeuter Wege zur Bestimmung des Minimax- Schaetzers dargestellt und in Beziehung gebracht. ...