Contact
Aachen Institute for Advanced Study
in Computational Engineering Science (AICES)
RWTH Aachen University
Schinkelstr. 2
52062 Aachen
Office: Room 431a
Phone: +49 241 80 99138
Email: paul@aices.rwth-aachen.de
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-paul-b7b08818b/
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Education
12/2018 – 05/2022: Ph.D. Candidate, IRTG at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
04/2017 – 11/2018: Master of Science in Computational Engineering Science, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
10/2013 – 03/2017: Bachelor of Science in Computational Engineering Science, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Professional Career
10/2017 – 07/2018: Student Assistant at fka Aachen, Germany
09/2016 – 03/2017: Intern at Volkswagen AG Brunswick, Germany
Theses
- Phase Field Modeling of Dynamic Brittle Fracture in Thin Shells (Master Thesis, AICES, RWTH Aachen University, Germany 2018)
- Optimization of Casting Direction as well as Positioning and Dimensioning of Feeders using an Innovative Graph-Based Target Function for the use in a Topology Optimization suitable for Casting (Bachelor Thesis, Volkswagen AG Brunswick, Germany 2017)
Publications
- An adaptive space-time phase field formulation for dynamic fracture of brittle shells
based on LR NURBS
K. Paul, C. Zimmermann, K.K. Mandadapu, T.J.R. Hughes, C.M. Landis and R.A. Sauer
Computational Mechanics, 2020, 65, pp. 1039-1062
doi: 10.1007/s00466-019-01807-y - Isogeometric continuity constraints for multi-patch shells governed by fourth-order
deformation and phase field models
K. Paul, C. Zimmermann, T.X. Duong and R.A. Sauer
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2020, 370, pp. 113219
doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2020.113219 - Dynamic Fracture of Brittle Shells in a Space-Time Adaptive Isogeometric Phase Field
Framework
K. Paul, T.J.R. Hughes, C.M. Landis and R.A. Sauer
CurrentTrendsandOpenProblemsinComputationalMechanics, 2022, pp. 407-415, Springer
Nature. - An isogeometric finite element formulation for surface and shell viscoelasticity based
on a multiplicative surface deformation split
K. Paul and R.A. Sauer
Preprint, https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13413