Sara Faghih-Naini joined the Research Department of ECMWF in December 2023. Her work in the EU-funded ESiWACE3 project focuses on the development of the GT4Py domain-specific library for the next-generation non-hydrostatic FVM dynamical core. Her background is in Applied Mathematics and High-Performance Computing.
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Domain-specific programming languages and performance portability
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High-performance computing with energy-efficient accelerators
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Dynamical core development and numerical methods
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Bayreuth, Germany (defending in 2024). Thesis on "Discontinuous Galerkin methods and high performance computing approaches for ocean simulations." (supervised by Vadym Aizinger, in close collaboration with Harald Köstler (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)).
M.Sc. Industrial Mathematics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (2019). Final Grade: Distinction. Thesis on "Theory and Numerics for Convective Heat Transport in Nanofluids". (supervised by Eberhard Bänsch)
- 2023
- Christoph Alt, Tobias Kenter, Sara Faghih-Naini, Jennifer Faj, Jan-Oliver Opdenhövel, Christian Plessl, Vadym Aizinger, Jan Hönig, Harald Koestler (April 2023) Shallow Water DG Simulations on FPGAs: Design and Comparison of a Novel Code Generation Pipeline, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32041-5_5
- Jennifer Faj, Tobias Kenter, Sara Faghih-Naini, Christian Plessl, Vadym Aizinger (June 2023) Scalable Multi-FPGA Design of a Discontinuous Galerkin Shallow-Water Model on Unstructured Meshes. DOI: 10.1145/3592979.3593407
- Sara Faghih-Naini, Sebastian Kuckuk, Daniel Zint, Samuel Kemmler, Harald Köstler, Vadym Aizinger (November 2023) Discontinuous Galerkin method for the shallow water equations on complex domains using masked block-structured grids, Advances in Water Resources. DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2023.104584
- 2022
- Daniel Zint, Roberto Grosso, Vadym Aizinger, Sara Faghih-Naini, Sebastian Kuckuk, Harald Köstler (May 2022) Automatic Generation of Load-Balancing-Aware Block-Structured Grids for Complex Ocean Domains, 2022 SIAM International Meshing Roundtable. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6562440
- Sara Faghih-Naini, Vadym Aizinger (December 2022) p-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method for the shallow water equations with a parameter-free error indicator, GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics. DOI: 10.1007/s13137-022-00208-3
- Bo-Wen Shen, Roger Pielke, Xubin Zeng, Jialin Cui, Sara Faghih-Naini, Wei Paxson, Amit Kesarkar, Xiping Zeng, Robert Atlas (November 2022) The Dual Nature of Chaos and Order in the Atmosphere, Atmosphere. DOI: 10.3390/atmos13111892
- Bo-Wen Shen, Roger A. Pielke, Xubin Zeng, Jialin Cui, Sara Faghih-Naini, Wei Paxson, Robert Atlas (July 2022) Three Kinds of Butterfly Effects within Lorenz Models, Encyclopedia. DOI: 10.3390/encyclopedia2030084
- 2021
- Bo-Wen Shen, Roger A. Pielke, Xubin Zeng, Jong-Jin Baik, Sara Faghih-Naini, Jialin Cui, Robert Atlas (January 2021) Is Weather Chaotic?: Coexistence of Chaos and Order within a Generalized Lorenz Model, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-19-0165.1
- Tobias Kenter, Adesh Shambhu, Sara Faghih-Naini, Vadym Aizinger (July 2021) Algorithm-hardware co-design of a discontinuous Galerkin shallow-water model for a dataflow architecture on FPGA, Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference. DOI: 10.1145/3468267.3470617
- Eberhard Bänsch, Sara Faghih-Naini (December 2021) Simulations With a Thermodynamically Consistent Model for Convective Transport in Nanofluids, Journal of Heat Transfer. DOI: 10.1115/1.4051601
- 2020
- Sara Faghih-Naini, Sebastian Kuckuk, Vadym Aizinger, Daniel Zint, Roberto Grosso, Harald Köstler (April 2020) Quadrature-free discontinuous Galerkin method with code generation features for shallow water equations on automatically generated block-structured meshes, Advances in Water Resources. DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103552
- Eberhard Bänsch, Sara Faghih-Naini, Pedro Morin (September 2020) Convective transport in nanofluids: The stationary problem, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2020.124151
- 2019
- B.-W. Shen, T. Reyes, S. Faghih-Naini (April 2019) Coexistence of Chaotic and Non-chaotic Orbits in a New Nine-Dimensional Lorenz Model, 11th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15297-0_22
- 2018
- Sara Faghih-Naini, Bo-Wen Shen (June 2018) Quasi-Periodic Orbits in the Five-Dimensional Nondissipative Lorenz Model: The Role of the Extended Nonlinear Feedback Loop, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. DOI: 10.1142/s0218127418500724
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