Description of the Graduate School

Conservation laws govern many processes in nature and technology. Therefore meteorologists, oceanographist, process engineers, shipwrights and mathematicians came together in this Graduate School to consider common aspects of modelling on one hand and numerical analysis on the other hand.

The scientific programme comprises on the modelling side the processes involved in separating mixtures of materials in membranes, in sonochemical reactions as well as transport of nutritious salts and seeds in the ocean. Along with interaction processes between terrestrial surfaces and the atmosphere, problems of turbulence modelling are araised and so are questions concerning relevant length scales. Interaction processes also play a dominant role in the movement of ships on the water surface. The mathematical side contributes the numerical analysis of non-standard conservation laws together with the development of numerical methods adapted to length scales, with which the transport models provided by the modelling side are numerically realised.

Interdisciplinarity is all in the foreground of the course of study. Each student has to absolve an educational programme consisting of the phases introduction and research supervition in which successful participation in at least 3 lectures is compulsory. One of these lectures has to treat a foreign subject. If the mathematician A is working on a project to be applied in meteorology, she is required to have attended at least one meteorological lecture of the course. In order to keep the educational programme compact, the lectures should be held in blocks. A general lecture by the involved university teachers colloquia once in a fortnight and summer schools with international participations should complete the course of study and provide a highly qualified and fast guidance to the PhD graduation.