RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Munich’s premier universities have a long partnership working on earthquake modelling and simulation at LRZ. Most recently, the team used HPC in tandem with monitoring data to better understand the differences between large and small earthquakes.

A team of researchers led by Dr. Claudia Finger of the Fraunhofer Research Institute for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems (IEG) in Bochum has been developing an innovative computer modeling method that improves how we locate and assess seismic activity in urban areas. Using the JUWELS supercomputer at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), the team successfully designed and tested a network of seismic monitoring stations near a hopeful geothermal site.

Scientists at the University of Bonn use the JUWELS supercomputer at the Jülich Supercomputing Center to improve models of how ocean tides are changing in a warming climate.

Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and their partners at the Technical University of Munich have developed innovative ways to assess risk for two of the Earth’s most destructive disasters.

Combining earthquake and tsunami computer models of the 2018 tsunami in Palu, researchers identified underlying causes of the deadly tsunami.