Ole Burghardt
Postdoctoral Researcher at Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolOle Burghardt is a postdoctoral researcher and software developer with nine years of experience specializing in computational fluid dynamics and scientific code development. Based in Weinheim, Germany, he contributes to the prominent open-source SU2 CFD suite, where his backend work improved incompressible flow solvers and conjugate heat transfer accuracy by refining Jacobian implementations and boundary treatments. At RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau he bridges academic research and production-grade simulation code, combining rigorous master-level training with hands-on engineering. His contributions show a pragmatic focus on numerical correctness and maintainability, often addressing subtle, correctness-critical parts of solver logic.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Bachelor at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität BonnMaster, Master at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
German, English, French
Github Skills (8)
computational-fluid-dynamics10
fluid-dynamics10
cfengine10
c-language10
cfc10
cprogramming-language10
cfml10
numerical-methods9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
su2code/SU2
Nov 2016 - Nov 2021
SU2: An Open-Source Suite for Multiphysics Simulation and Design
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 586 commits, 21 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Ole made several changes to the SU2 CFD code, specifically focusing on modifications related to the incompressible flow solver and conjugate heat transfer (CHT) implementations. These commits involve the removal and addition of code sections, including changes to time step settings, Jacobian implementations, and modifications to the CHT interface for better accuracy. The user's work focused primarily on improving the accuracy of the simulation by removing incorrect statements, incorporating a more accurate Jacobian for the incompressible cases, and updating the CHT boundary conditions.
physicsmultiphysics-simulationpythoncfdsnl-applications
su2code/TestCases
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Test cases for SU2
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 11 months
casestestingsu2test-casestypescript
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