Mladen Ivkovic’s Homepage

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Currently I’m a postdoctoral research associate at Durham University in the Scientific Computing Group of the Department of Computer Science, working on task-based SPH formalisms and the performance prediction and optimisation thereof with the Peano framework. In a nutshell, we are researching how to design and write scientific software to solve numerical fluid dynamics using particle methods with maximum performance and efficiency, preparing them for exa-scale computing facilities.

My background is in physics and computational astrophysics. I’m especially interested in algorithms and numerical methods for high performance scientific computing such as (astro)physical simulations and on-the-fly analysis thereof. In terms of applications, so far my fields of research span halo finding, merger-tree building, computational fluid dynamics (using Finite Volume methods, Finite Volume Particle Methods, and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics), and radiative transfer/radiation hydrodynamics. I have worked on and with astrophysical codes like SWIFT and RAMSES.

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This page has multiple things to offer:

• Some of my work
• Some software stuff
• Studying material, scripts, and summaries