Esra Neufeld: Katalogdaten im Frühjahrssemester 2023 |
| Name | Herr Dr. Esra Neufeld |
| Adresse | IT'IS Foundation Zeughausstrasse 43 8004 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telefon | 0442459698 |
| eneufeld@ethz.ch | |
| Departement | Informationstechnologie und Elektrotechnik |
| Beziehung | Dozent |
| Nummer | Titel | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 227-0622-00L | Applications of Thermal Modeling: From Hot Atoms to Heated Tissues | 4 KP | 3G | E. Neufeld, M. Luisier | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | How about leveraging heat to cure cancer or to solve today’s energy crisis? Computational simulation of heat-related phenomena from the atomic-scale to living organisms is key to achieve these goals and will be at the core of this multidisciplinary course. The necessary physics, modeling, and computing background will be covered, from theory to practical implementations in concrete applications. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | During this course students will: - learn the physics governing the formation and propagation of heat in solids and living human tissues; - discover how heat can be used in personalised cancer therapies or in thermoelectric applications to produce reusable energy; - develop computational models describing electromagnetically-induced heating; - get familiar with computational simulation techniques across a wide range of spatial scales, incl. methods for simulating in vivo heating, considering thermoregulation and perfusion, or more fundamental approaches that consider heat at the level of atomic vibrations; - implement and apply simulation techniques within a state-of-the-art open-source simulation platform for computational life sciences, and a framework for computer-aided design of nanoscale electronic devices; - learn about practical aspects related to performance-critical coding and numerics for computational simulations; - work on two small projects applying the theoretical concepts presented during the lectures to two specific real-world applications where heat modeling is required; - learn about current challenges of high social relevance associated with heat modeling. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | The following topics will be covered: - introduction to electromagnetic heating, from its social relevance and history to its application in biology and electronics; - personalised therapies relying on local heating; - thermoelectricity (production of electricity from heat gradients); - microscopic/macroscopic thermal transport including governing equations, numerical methods to solve them, and applications; - numerical algorithms and their implementation, shared and distributed parallelization approaches and pitfalls, use of graphics processing units (GPUs) for hardware acceleration, and solutions for high performance computing; - usage of the Sim4Life simulation platform (therapy planning) and of the OMEN technology computer aided design tool (device simulation) as practical examples; - odel verification and validation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skript | Lecture slides are distributed every week and can be found at https://iis-students.ee.ethz.ch/lectures/thermal-modeling/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | This course is ideal for students who have an interest in computational sciences, a passion for interdisciplinarity, and generally enjoy problem-solving. The course requires a basic knowledge of Python scripting and C/C++ coding skills, undergraduate entry-level familiarity with electric and magnetic fields/forces, differential equations, calculus, and basic knowledge of biology and physics. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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