Formal name: Drs. M. Nool
Function: Scientific programmer
Email: Margreet.Nool@cwi.nl
Telephone: +31(0)20 592 4120
Room: M131
Research groups: Multiscale Dynamics
Research
In 1975 I started my career as a scientific assistant at the Mathematical Center (MC). At the end of 1977 I started as a scientific programmer at the department Numerieke Wiskunde (NW), sharing that position the first years with Joke Blom, because working in part time was not so popular in the seventies. I participated in many projects e.g., on ordinary differential equations, Runge-Kutta methods, eigenvalue problems and basic linear algebra methods.
Directly from the introduction of the supercomputers in the Netherlands, I specialized in high performance computing. I have optimized and parallelized lots of programs on multigrid, Jacobi-Davidson, adaptive grid-refinement methods, least-squares spectral element solvers, fluid-structure interfaces, and collaborated together with several research groups inside and outside CWI, e.g., FOM Rijnhuizen and TU Delft Aerospace Engineering.
In 2010 I joined the group of Prof. Ute Ebert (MAC3) and since that time I am involved with software on discharge modeling for plasma technology and for lightning. The software includes Monte-Carlo particle, fluid and hybrid methods, and all codes must be parallelized to increase their employability. Another separate problem is the enormous amount of data produced by the simulations. How should it be handled properly and what will be the best way of visualization?
Career
| 2013 - | Programmeur MD - Multiscale dynamics |
| 2010 - 2013 | Scientific programmer MAC3 - Multiscale Modelling and Nonlinear Dynamics |
| 1997 - 2009 | Scientific programmer MAS2 - Scientific Computing and Control Theory |
| 1975 - 1996 | CWI - not known [unknown - |
Selected Academic Activities
| 2008 - | Conference secretary Werkgemeenschap Scientific Computing - [WSC] - Woudschoten Conference |
| 2008 - | Co-organizer Werkgemeenschap Scientific Computing - [WSC] - Spring Meeting |
| 2007 | Co-organizer Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Numerical Analysis Communities |
| 2007 - | Secretary Werkgemeenschap Scientific Computing - [WSC] |
| 2006 | Co-organizer Symposium The Art of Computing (retirement P.W. Hemker) |
| 2006 - 2007 | Secretary Werkgemeenschap Numerieke Wiskunde - [WNW] |
| 2005 - 2009 | Member CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Library Committee |
Selected Publications
| M. Nool, E.J. Lingen, M.C.A. van Zuijlen, M. Stroeven, H. Bijl. FLECS, a Flexible Coupling Shell Parallel Application to Fluid-Structure Interaction. ICCMCE 2009, ICCMSE proceedings, Rethymno, Crete, Greece, 2009. |
| A.J.C. Beliën, M. Nool, A. van der Ploeg, J.P. Goedbloed. Application of the Jacobi-Davidson method to spectral calculations in magnetohydrodynamics. Proceedings of High-Performance Computing and Networking, Europe 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 119–126, 2007. |
| M. Nool, E.J. Lingen, A. de Boer, H. Bijl. Flecs, a Flexible Coupling Shell. Application to Fluid-Structure Interaction. Proceedings of International Workshop PARA 2006 (PARA 8), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Umeå, Sweden, 1016–1025, 2007. |
| M. Nool, D. Lahaye. The Eggshell Method for Magnetic Field Computations. Proceedings of FEMLAB Users Conference 2005, 303–308, 2005. |
| M. Nool, M.M.J. Proot. A parallel least-squares spectral element solver for incompressible flow problems on unstructured grids. Parallel Computing 31, 414–438, 2005. |
| R. Keppens, M. Nool, J.P. Goedbloed. Zooming in on #D magnetized plasmas with grid-adaptive simulations. Proceedings of the International CFD 2001 Conference, Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics - Practice and Theory, 215–222, 2002. |
| M. Nool, M.M.J. Proot. Parallel Implementation of a Least-Squares Spectral Element Solver for Incomressible Flow Problems. The 2002 International Conference on Computational Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2329, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 900–909, 2002. |
| M.A. Kirkilionis, O. Diekmann, B. Lisser, M. Nool, B.P. Sommeijer, A.M. de Roos. Numerical continuation of equilibria of physiologically structured population models I. Theory. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences 11, 1101–1127, 2001. |
| M. Nool, A. van der Ploeg. A parallel Jacobi-Davidson-type method for solving large generalized eigenvalue problems in magnetohydrodynamics. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 22, 95–112, 2000. |
| P.W. Hemker, B. Koren, W.M. Lioen, M. Nool, H.T.M. van der Maarel. Multigrid for steady gas dynamics problems. Euler and Navier-Stokes solvers using multi-dimensional upwind schemes and multigrid acceleration, Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics 5, 393–417, 1997. |
| W.M. Lioen, M. Nool, H.J.J. te Riele. Optimization of the real level 2 BLAS on the CYBER 205. Algorithms and applications on vector and parallel computers, 199–212, 1987. |

