Contact
Pfaffenwaldring 47
70569 Stuttgart
Deutschland
Room: 3.112
Office Hours
By appointment
Subject
- Fast integral equation methods
- Visualization of electromagnetic fields
- Applied numerical field computations
- Multiphysics field problems
- Medical engineering
- Measurement technology and sensors
Journals and books:
2022
- A. Buchau and J. Anders, “CHARACTERIZATION OF VECTOR FIELDS BASED ON AN ANALYSIS OF THEIR LOCAL EXPANSIONS,” in WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences, A. Cheng, Ed., in WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences, vol. 134. WIT Press, Aug. 2022, pp. 17–29. doi: 10.2495/be450021.
2021
- A. Buchau, “Accuracy analysis of the fast multipole method for three-dimensional boundary value problems based on Laplace’s equation,” in WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences, A. H.-D. Cheng, Ed., in WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences, vol. 131. WIT Press, Aug. 2021, pp. 3–15. doi: 10.2495/be440011.
- B. M. K. Alnajjar, A. Buchau, L. Baumgártner, and J. Anders, “NMR magnets for portable applications using 3D printed materials,” Journal of Magnetic Resonance, p. 106934, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.jmr.2021.106934.
2019
- B. M. K. Alnajjar, A. Buchau, J. Anders, and B. Blümich, “An H-shaped low-field magnet for NMR spectroscopy designed using the finite element method,” International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 60, pp. S3–S14, May 2019, doi: 10.3233/JAE-191101.
- A. Buchau, “Precise and Robust Magnetic Field Computations for High-End Smart Sensor Applications,” in Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods XLII, in Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods XLII, vol. 126. WIT Press, Southampton UK, Sep. 2019, pp. 75–87. doi: 10.2495/be420071.
- M. Spiess, A. Buchau, and J. Anders, “Precision finite element method simulations of a chip-integrated magnetic resonance coil for in-situ MR applications,” in 2019 22nd International Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG), in 2019 22nd International Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG). IEEE, Jul. 2019. doi: 10.1109/compumag45669.2019.9032724.
2018
- A. Buchau and M. Jüttner, “A concept of separated numerical formulations for the solution and evaluation of complex field problems,” International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements, vol. 6, no. 6, Art. no. 6, Jan. 2018, doi: 10.2495/cmem-v6-n6-1008-1018.
2017
- A. Buchau and W. M. Rucker, “A meshfree isosurface computation method for boundary element methods,” International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements, vol. 5, no. 5, Art. no. 5, Jun. 2017, doi: 10.2495/cmem-v5-n5-647-658.
- M. Ostroushko, A. Buchau, and W. M. Rucker, “Design and simulation of the electromagnetic heating of a biological tissue,” COMPEL-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR COMPUTATION AND MATHEMATICS IN ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, vol. 36, no. 2, Art. no. 2, 2017, doi: 10.1108/COMPEL-05-2016-0220.
2016
- M. Jüttner, A. Buchau, D. Vögeli, W. M. Rucker, and P. Göhner, “Iterative Software Agent Based Solution of Multiphysics Problems,” in Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering, A. Bartel, M. Clemens, M. Günther, and E. J. W. ter Maten, Eds., in Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 123--131.
2015
- A. Buchau and W. M. Rucker, “Feasibility of a meshfree post-processing for boundary element methods,” in Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods XXXVIII, A. H.-D. Cheng and C. A. Brebbia, Eds., in Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods XXXVIII. WIT Press, Sep. 2015, pp. 327–338. doi: 10.2495/bem380261.
- A. Buchau and W. M. Rucker, “Meshfree computation of field lines across multiple domains using fast boundary element methods,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 51, no. 3, Art. no. 3, Mar. 2015, doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2014.2359520.
2014
- A. Buchau and W. M. Rucker, “The meshfree computation of stationary electric current densities in complex shaped conductors using 3D boundary element methods,” in Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods XXXVII, C. Brebbia and A. Cheng, Eds., in Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods XXXVII. WIT Press, Sep. 2014, pp. 121–133. doi: 10.2495/be370111.
2012
- H. Li, C. de Boer, H. Hermes, A. Buchau, N. Klaas, and W. M. Rucker, “Development of an inductive concentration measurement sensor of nano sized zero valent iron,” in Systems, Signals and Devices (SSD), 2012 - 9th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, in Systems, Signals and Devices (SSD), 2012 - 9th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices. Chemnitz, Germany, Mar. 2012, pp. 1–7. doi: 10.1109/SSD.2012.6198042.
2010
- A. Buchau, W. M. Rucker, C. de Boer, and N. Klaas, “Inductive detection and concentration measurement of nano sized zero valent iron in the subsurface,” IET Science, Measurement and Technology, vol. 4, no. 6, Art. no. 6, Nov. 2010, doi: 10.1049/iet-smt.2009.0116.
2009
- A. Buchau, W. M. Rucker, U. Wössner, and M. Becker, “Augmented reality in teaching of electrodynamics,” COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 28, no. 4, Art. no. 4, Jul. 2009, doi: 10.1108/03321640910959026.
2008
- W. Hafla, A. Buchau, and W. M. Rucker, “Consideration of Scalar Magnetic Hysteresis with the Integral Equation Method,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 44, no. 6, Art. no. 6, Jun. 2008, doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.916170.
- A. Buchau, S. M. Tsafak, W. Hafla, and W. M. Rucker, “Parallelization of a Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method with Cluster OpenMP,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 44, no. 6, Art. no. 6, Jun. 2008, doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.916262.
2007
- A. Buchau, W. Hafla, and W. M. Rucker, “Accuracy Investigations of Boundary Element Methods for the Solution of Laplace Equations,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 43, no. 4, Art. no. 4, Apr. 2007, doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.892304.
- J. Albert, W. Hafla, A. Buchau, and W. M. Rucker, “Eddy Currents and Lorentz Forces in Pulsed Magnetic Forming,” Advanced Computer Techniques in Applied Electromagnetics, vol. 30, pp. 16–20, 2007, doi: 10.3233/978-1-58603-895-3-16.
- W. Hafla, A. Buchau, W. M. Rucker, A. Weinläder, and B. Klotz, “Efficient design analysis of a novel magnetic gear on a high performance computer,” COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 26, no. 3, Art. no. 3, Jan. 2007, doi: 10.1108/03321640710751172.
- W. Hafla, A. Buchau, W. M. Rucker, A. Weinläder, and A. Bardakcioglu, “Efficient post‐processing with the integral equation method,” COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 26, no. 3, Art. no. 3, Jan. 2007, doi: 10.1108/03321640710751280.
- W. Hafla, A. Buchau, and W. M. Rucker, “Force Computation with the Integral Equation Method,” Advanced Computer Techniques in Applied Electromagnetics, vol. 30, pp. 93–97, 2007, doi: 10.3233/978-1-58603-895-3-93.
2006
- W. Hafla, A. Buchau, and W. M. Rucker, “Application of Fast Multipole Method to Biot-Savart Law Computations,” in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics. 2006, pp. 1–2.
- W. Hafla, A. Buchau, A. Bardakcioglu, C. Scheiblich, and W. M. Rucker, “Fuzzy Logic Adaptive Mesh Refinement for 3D Nonlinear Magnetostatic Problems Using Integral Equation Method,” in Digest Book of CEFC 2006, in Digest Book of CEFC 2006. Miami, Apr. 2006, p. 118. doi: 10.1109/CEFC-06.2006.1632911.
- W. Hafla, F. Groh, A. Buchau, and W. M. Rucker, “Magnetic field computation with integral equation method and energy-controlled relaxation,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 42, no. 4, Art. no. 4, Apr. 2006, doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.871598.
2005
- F. Groh, D. Beck, W. Hafla, A. Buchau, and W. M. Rucker, “Calculating Exciting Fields using the Fast Multipole Method and an Integral Transformation to the Coil Surface,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 41, no. 5, Art. no. 5, May 2005, doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.844355.
- W. Hafla, A. Buchau, F. Groh, and W. M. Rucker, “Efficient Integral Equation Method for the Solution of 3D Magnetostatic Problems,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 41, no. 5, Art. no. 5, May 2005, doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.844342.
- A. Buchau, W. Hafla, F. Groh, and W. M. Rucker, “Fast multipole method based solution of electrostatic and magnetostatic field problems,” Computing and Visualisation in Science, vol. 8, no. 3–4, Art. no. 3–4, Dec. 2005, doi: 10.1007/s00791-005-0003-8.
- A. Buchau, W. Hafla, F. Groh, and W. M. Rucker, “Parallelized computation of compressed BEM matrices on multiprocessor computer clusters,” COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 24, no. 2, Art. no. 2, Jan. 2005, doi: 10.1108/03321640510586105.
2004
- A. Buchau, W. Hafla, and W. M. Rucker, “Fast and efficient 3D boundary element method for closed domains,” COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 23, no. 4, Art. no. 4, Jan. 2004, doi: 10.1108/03321640410553283.
- A. Buchau, W. Hafla, F. Groh, and W. M. Rucker, “Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method For The Solution Of 3D Electrostatic Field Problems,” WIT Transactions on Modelling and Simulation, vol. 37, pp. 369–379, 2004, doi: 10.2495/BE040361.
- F. Groh, W. Hafla, A. Buchau, and W. Rucker, “Field strength computation at edges in nonlinear magnetostatics,” COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 23, no. 3, Art. no. 3, Jan. 2004, doi: 10.1108/03321640410540575.
2003
- A. Buchau and W. M. Rucker, “Capacitance Computation of Thin Conductors with the Fast Multipole Method,” International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 17, no. 1–3, Art. no. 1–3, Jun. 2003, doi: 10.3233/JAE-2003-244.
- A. Buchau, W. M. Rucker, O. Rain, V. Rischmuller, S. Kurz, and S. Rjasanow, “Comparison between different approaches for fast and efficient 3-D BEM computations,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 39, no. 3, Art. no. 3, May 2003, doi: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.810167.
- A. Buchau, W. Hafla, F. Groh, and W. M. Rucker, “Improved grouping scheme and meshing strategies for the fast multipole method,” COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 22, no. 3, Art. no. 3, Jan. 2003, doi: 10.1108/03321640310474895.
2002
- A. Buchau and W. M. Rucker, “Preconditioned Fast Adaptive Multipole Boundary Element Method,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 38, no. 2, Art. no. 2, Mar. 2002, doi: 10.1109/20.996122.
2001
- A. Buchau, W. Rieger, and W. M. Rucker, “BEM Computations Using the Fast Multipole Method in Combination with Higher Order Elements and the Galerkin Method,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 37, no. 5, Art. no. 5, Sep. 2001, doi: 10.1109/20.952572.
- A. Buchau, W. Rieger, and W. M. Rucker, “Fast field computations with the fast multipole method,” COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 20, no. 2, Art. no. 2, Jan. 2001, doi: 10.1108/03321640110383861.
- W. Rieger, A. Buchau, G. Lehner, and W. M. Rucker, “Three-Dimensional Direct and Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering,” High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, 2001.
2000
- W. Rieger, A. Buchau, C. J. Huber, G. Lehner, and W. M. Rucker, “A New Approach to the 2D Inverse Electromagnetic Medium Scattering Problem: Reconstruction of Anisotropic Objects,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 36, no. 4, Art. no. 4, Jul. 2000, doi: 10.1109/20.877634.
- C. J. Huber, A. Buchau, W. Rieger, and W. M. Rucker, “Boundary Element Computation of Partially Coated Bodies Using Higher Order Edge Elements,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 36, no. 4, Art. no. 4, Jul. 2000, doi: 10.1109/20.877576.
- A. Buchau, C. J. Huber, W. Rieger, and W. M. Rucker, “Fast BEM Computations with the Adaptive Multilevel Fast Multipole Method,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 36, no. 4, Art. no. 4, Jul. 2000, doi: 10.1109/20.877540.
1999
- W. Rieger, A. Buchau, M. Hass, C. Huber, G. Lelmer, and W. M. Rucker, “2D-TE inverse medium scattering: an improved variable metric method,” in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium. 1999 Digest. Held in conjunction with: USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting (Cat. No.99CH37010), in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium. 1999 Digest. Held in conjunction with: USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting (Cat. No.99CH37010), vol. 3. Jul. 1999, pp. 2140–2143 vol.3. doi: 10.1109/APS.1999.788385.
- C. J. Huber, W. Rieger, A. Buchau, and W. M. Rucker, “BEM‐computation of antenna near field reactionson conducting materials using curvilinear edge elements,” COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 18, no. 3, Art. no. 3, Jan. 1999, doi: 10.1108/03321649910274919.
- U. Jakobus, A. Buchau, and F. M. Landstorfer, “Extending a MoM/PO/UTD Hybrid Method by an Automatic Selection of the Computational Methods Based on Neural Networks,” Proceedings of the 15th Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics, vol. 1, pp. 455–462, 1999.
- Lecture with exercise in "Applied Numerical Field Computations"
- Lecture with exercise in "Finite Element Methods"
- Exercise in "Electrodynamics"
- Supervision of student projects
- Lecture with exercise in "Electrodynamics" (WS16/17 und SS 17)
- Exercise in "Numerical Field Computation I" (until SS 16)
- Exercise in "Numerical Field Computation II" (until WS 15/16)
- Exercise in "Numerics" (until WS 15/16)
- 1993 - 1998: Studies of electrical engineering at the Universtity of Stuttgart
- Since 1998: Member of academic staff at the Institute for Theory of Electrical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart
- 2002: PhD with distinction at the University of Stuttgart "Numerical solution of electro- and magnetostatic field problems using integral equation methods in combination with the adaptive multilevel fast multipole method"
- 2005: Baden-Württemberg Zertifikat Hochschuldidaktik
- Since 2006: Vice director of institute
- Since 2017: Group leader "Multiphysics problems"
Course timetable coordinator for the degree programs
- Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (B. Sc., M. Sc.)
- Electrical Engineering (M. Sc.)
- Electromobility (M. Sc.)
- Sustainable Electrical Power Supply (M.Sc.)
- Autonomous Systems (M.Sc.)
- Member of Großer Fakultätsrat der Fakultät 05
- Member of U.R.S.I. German chapter (Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale) and chair of commission C (Radio Communication Systems and Signal Processing)
- Member of VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik
- Member of VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure
- Member of ICS International Compumag Society
- Profile at ResearchGate
List of supervised student projects on the German version of this page