Forschung

Research interests

  • Numerical Analysis, Hyperbolic PDEs and conservation laws
  • Unconditionally positive and structure-preserving numerical methods
  • Stability of nonlinear methods
  • Positivity-preserving Dense Output formulae
  • Optimal time step control

Participation in funded research projects

09/2025 - 11/2025Modeling and numerical simulation of pandemic processes in Ghana using a modified Patankar–Runge–Kutta methods
Role: Co-writing the proposal and co-collaborator
07/2021 - 06/2024Significant expansion and unification of the theory of Patankar-type methods through uniform order analysis, first-time investigation of stability, time step adaptation, and dense output formulae
Role: Co-writing the proposal and main investigator of the research

Supervision

02/2023 - today Co-supervising 1 Ph.D. student, Kassel
08/2022 - 03/2023 Mentored 1 Master’s student, Kassel

Other experience of relevance

02/2023 - today Co-supervising 1 Ph.D. student, Kassel
12/2023 - 06/2025 Reviewer for international Journals: SIAM J. Sci. Comput., J. Comput. Sci.,
J. Comput. Appl. Math., Appl. Numer. Math.
08/2022 - 03/2023 Mentored 1 Master’s student, Kassel

Publications

Peer reviewed in international journals

11. A Boot-Strapping Technique to Design Unconditionally Positive Dense Output Formulae for Modified Patankar-Runge-Kutta Methods
Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation (2025).
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10. Order conditions for Runge-Kutta-like methods with solution-dependent coefficients
(with D. Ketcheson, A. Meister)
Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, 20 (1), (2025), 29–66.
[DOI]
9. On the non-global linear stability and spurious fixed points of MPRK schemes with negative RK parameters
(with S. Kopecz, A. Meister, A. Schilling)
Numerical Algorithms, 96, (2024), 1221–1242.
[DOI]
8. A necessary condition for non-oscillatory and positivity preserving time-integration schemes
(with D. Torlo, P. Öffner)
In: Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications. Volume II, SEMA SIMAI Springer Ser., Vol. 35, Springer, Cham (2024), 121–131.
[DOI]
7. On the local dynamics of first and second order GeCo and gBBKS schemes
(with S. Kopecz, A. Martiradonna, A. Meister)
Applied Numerical Mathematics, 193, (2023), 43–66.
[DOI]
6. A study of the local dynamics of modified Patankar DeC and higher order modified Patankar–RK methods
(with P. Öffner)
ESAIM: M2AN, 57, (2023), 2319–2348.
[DOI]
5. On the Stability of Strong–Stability–Preserving modified Patankar–Runge–Kutta schemes
(with J. Huang, S. Kopecz, A. Meister, C.-W. Shu)
ESAIM: M2AN, 57, (2023), 1063–1086.
[DOI]
4. On the Stability of Unconditionally Positive and Linear Invariants Preserving Time Integration Schemes
(with S. Kopecz, A. Meister)
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 60 (6), (2022), 3029–3051.
[DOI]
3. On Lyapunov stability of positive and conservative time integrators and application to second order modified Patankar–Runge–Kutta schemes
(with S. Kopecz, A. Meister)
ESAIM: M2AN, 56 (3), (2022), 1053–1080.
[DOI]
2. An Involutive GVW Algorithm and the Computation of Pommaret Bases
(with A. Hashemi, D. Robertz, W. M. Seiler)
Mathematics in Computer Science, 15, (2021), 419–452.
[DOI]
1. Numerical Investigation of Ultrashort Laser-Ablative Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles in Liquids Using the Atomistic-Continuum Model
(with D. S. Ivanov, A. N. Maiorov, V. P. Veiko, B. Rethfeld, Y. I. Dombrovska, A. V. Kabashin)
Molecules, 25 (1), (2020), 67–78.
[DOI]

Peer reviewed Conference Proceedings

2. A Stability Analysis of Modified Patankar-Runge-Kutta methods for a nonlinear Production-Destruction System
(with S. Kopecz, A. Meister)
PAMM, 22: e202200083 (2023)
[DOI]
1. Recent Developments in the Field of Modified Patankar–Runge–Kutta methods
(with S. Kopecz, A. Meister)
PAMM, 21: e202100027 (2021)
[DOI]

Thesis

A Unifying Theory for Runge-Kutta-like Time Integrators: Convergence and Stability
PhD Thesis, University of Kassel, KOBRA (2024).
[DOI]

Preprints

2. The Lax–Wendroff theorem for Patankar-type methods applied to hyperbolic conservation laws
(with J. Bender, D. Torlo, P. Öffner)
(2025)
[DOI]
1. Using Bayesian Optimization to Design Time Step Size Controllers with Application to Modified Patankar-Runge-Kutta Methods
(with H. Ranocha)
(2023)
[DOI]