Jörg Kuhnert

Dr. Jörg Kuhnert serves as Deputy Head of the Department »Transport Operations« at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Kaiserslautern. His research focuses on grid-free numerical methods in fluid and structural mechanics, mathematical modeling of foams, and parallelization of algorithms. He has contributed to high-impact publications in computational mechanics and geotechnical engineering.

Research Interests:

• Development and application of mesh-free techniques (e.g., Finite Pointset Method)
• Mathematical modeling of complex materials like foams
• High-performance computing for engineering simulations

Publications: His work spans theoretical advancements and practical applications in soil mechanics, fluid-structure interaction, and numerical methods. Recent contributions emphasize mesh-free approaches for multiphysics problems.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided text. He leads teams within the Transport Operations department at Fraunhofer ITWM.