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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
65
Citations
13602
World Ranking
520
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

Overview

Ernst Rank is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Engineering, with specific contributions to Computational Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

The scientist's work spans various topics, with notable emphasis on:

  • Numerical methods in engineering
  • Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications

Rank's publication record includes research articles in several frequent venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Additive manufacturing
  • Advances in Computational Science and Engineering
  • Engineering With Computers

Among recent papers, some notable titles are:

  • Bending behavior of octet-truss lattice structures: Modelling options, numerical characterization and experimental validation, 2021, Materials & Design
  • A Selection of Benchmark Problems in Solid Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 2020, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
  • Modeling and experimental validation of an immersed thermo-mechanical part-scale analysis for laser powder bed fusion processes, 2020, Additive manufacturing
  • Hierarchically refined isogeometric analysis of trimmed shells, 2020, Computational Mechanics
  • An immersed boundary approach for residual stress evaluation in selective laser melting processes, 2021, Additive manufacturing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rank include:

  • Stefan Kollmannsberger
  • Philipp Kopp
  • Alessandro Reali
  • Massimo Carraturo
  • Ferdinando Auricchio

Rank was awarded the title of Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Finite cell method

    Jamshid Parvizian;Jamshid Parvizian;Alexander Düster;Ernst Rank

  • Additive manufacturing in construction: A review on processes, applications, and digital planning methods

    Alexander Paolini;Stefan Kollmannsberger;Ernst Rank

  • The finite cell method for three-dimensional problems of solid mechanics

    A. Düster;J. Parvizian;Z. Yang;E. Rank

  • An Isogeometric design-through-analysis methodology based on adaptive hierarchical refinement of NURBS, immersed boundary methods, and T-spline CAD surfaces

    Dominik Schillinger;Dominik Schillinger;Luca Dedè;Michael A. Scott;John A. Evans

  • The p‐Version of the Finite Element Method

    Barna Szabó;Alexander Düster;Ernst Rank

  • Weak coupling for isogeometric analysis of non-matching and trimmed multi-patch geometries

    Martin Ruess;Dominik Schillinger;Ali I. Özcan;Ernst Rank

  • The p‐version of the finite element method for three‐dimensional curved thin walled structures

    A. Düster;H. Bröker;E. Rank

  • Geometric modeling, isogeometric analysis and the finite cell method

    E. Rank;M. Ruess;S. Kollmannsberger;D. Schillinger

  • Lattice Boltzmann simulations of binary fluid flow through porous media.

    Jonas Tölke;Manfred Krafczyk;Manuel Schulz;Ernst Rank

  • Small and large deformation analysis with the p- and B-spline versions of the Finite Cell Method

    Dominik Schillinger;Martin Ruess;Nils Zander;Yuri Bazilevs

  • Weakly enforced essential boundary conditions for NURBS-embedded and trimmed NURBS geometries on the basis of the finite cell method

    Martin Ruess;D. Schillinger;Y. Bazilevs;V. Varduhn

  • A multiscale finite-element method

    E. Rank;R. Krause

  • Analysis of 3D transient blood flow passing through an artificial aortic valve by Lattice–Boltzmann methods

    M. Krafczyk;M. Cerrolaza;M. Schulz;E. Rank

  • Computation of fluid-structure interaction on lightweight structures

    M. Glück;M. Breuer;F. Durst;A. Halfmann

  • Biofabricated soft network composites for cartilage tissue engineering.

    Onur Bas;Elena M. De-Juan-Pardo;Christoph Meinert;Davide D'Angella

  • Topological analysis of 3D building models using a spatial query language

    André Borrmann;Ernst Rank

  • An unfitted hp-adaptive finite element method based on hierarchical B-splines for interface problems of complex geometry

    Dominik Schillinger;Ernst Rank

  • The finite cell method for bone simulations: verification and validation

    Martin Ruess;David Tal;Nir Trabelsi;Zohar Yosibash

  • Specification and implementation of directional operators in a 3D spatial query language for building information models

    André Borrmann;Ernst Rank

  • Smart octrees: Accurately integrating discontinuous functions in 3D

    László Kudela;Nils Zander;Stefan Kollmannsberger;Ernst Rank

  • The hp‐d‐adaptive finite cell method for geometrically nonlinear problems of solid mechanics

    D. Schillinger;A. Düster;E. Rank

  • Adaptive h-, p- and hp- versions for boundary integral element methods

    Ernst Rank

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Düster
Alexander Düster Hamburg University of Technology
Manfred Krafczyk
Manfred Krafczyk Technische Universität Braunschweig
Dominik Schillinger
Dominik Schillinger University of Minnesota
Alessandro Reali
Alessandro Reali University of Pavia
Michael Breuer
Michael Breuer Helmut Schmidt University
Fu-Yun Zhao
Fu-Yun Zhao Wuhan University
Franz Durst
Franz Durst FMP Technology (Germany)
Ferdinando Auricchio
Ferdinando Auricchio University of Pavia
F. Durst
F. Durst FMP Technology (Germany)
Dietmar W. Hutmacher
Dietmar W. Hutmacher Queensland University of Technology

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