Chair of Applied Mechanics
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Chair

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Dornisch
RPTU University Kaiserslautern Landau
Postfach 3049
67653 Kaiserslautern
Germany
Phone: +49 631 205 2419
Building 44, Room 432
e-mail: wolfgang.dornisch(at)mv.rptu.de

Research topics

  • Isogeometric Finite Element Formulations
  • Spectral Element Method
  • Alleviation of Locking Effects
  • Efficient Numerical Integration for NURBS Elements
  • Rotational Formulations for Shell and Beam Elements
  • Mortar Methods for Domain Coupling
  • Contact Formulations
  • Phase-Field Method for Material Modeling
  • Topology Optimization Using the Phase-Field Method
  • Mass Lumping for Isogeometric Elements
  • Discretization of Crystalline Structures Using the Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method

Publications

Selected publications
  • L. Stammen and W. Dornisch. An enhanced approximate dual lumping procedure for static condensation in mixed NURBS-based isogeometric plate elements with optimal convergence rates for arbitrary open knot vectors and multi-patch discretizations. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 461, 119255, doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2026.119255, 2026.
  • N. Azizi and W. Dornisch. A rotation-based geometrically nonlinear spectral Reissner–Mindlin shell element. Finite Elem. Anal. Des. 251, 104416, doi: 10.1016/j.finel.2025.104416, 2025.
  • R. R. Hiemstra, T. H. Nguyen, S. Eisenträger, W. Dornisch and D. Schillinger. Higher-order accurate mass lumping for explicit isogeometric methods based on approximate dual basis functions. Comp. Mech. 76, 205- 226, doi: 10.1007/s00466-025-02596-3, 2025.
  • S. Held, S. Eisenträger and W. Dornisch. An efficient mass lumping scheme for isogeometric analy sis based on approximate dual basis functions. Tech. Mech. 44(1), 14- 46, doi: 10.24352/UB.OVGU 2024-052, 2024
  • W. Dornisch and J. Stöckler. An isogeometric mortar method for the coupling of multiple NURBS domains with optimal convergence rates. Numer. Math. 149 (4), 871 - 931, 2021
  • W. Dornisch, D. Schrade, B.-X. Xu, M.-A. Keip and R. Müller. Coupled phase field simulations of ferroelectric and ferromagnetic layers in multiferroic heterostructures. Arch. Appl. Mech. 89 (6), 1031 - 1056, 2019
  • W. Dornisch, J. Stöckler and R. Müller. Dual and approximate dual basis functions for B-splines and NURBS – Comparison and application for an efficient coupling of patches with the isogeometric mortar method. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 316, 449 - 496, 2017
  • H. Gravenkamp, S. Natarajan, and W. Dornisch. On the use of NURBS-based discretizations in the scaled boundary finite element method for wave propagation problems. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 315, 867 - 880, 2017
  • W. Dornisch, R. Müller and S. Klinkel. An efficient and robust rotational formulation for isogeometric Reissner–Mindlin shell elements. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 303, 1 - 34, 2016
  • W. Dornisch, G. Vitucci and S. Klinkel. The weak substitution method – An application of the mortar method for patch coupling in NURBS-based isogeometric analysis. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng. 103 (3), 205 - 234, 2015
  • W. Dornisch, S. Klinkel and B. Simeon. Isogeometric Reissner–Mindlin shell analysis with exactly calculated director vectors. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 253, 491 - 504, 201
 
Selected presentations
  • W. Dornisch and S. Affan. On the Efficiency of the Spectral Element Method and Possible Speed Up in Comparison to the Finite Element Method. 17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics & 10th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026), July 2026, Munich, Germany.
  • W. Dornisch and J. Stöckler. How to obtain optimal convergence rates in an isogeometric dual mortar formulation. 13th International Conference on IsoGeometric Analysis (IGA 2025), September 2025, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
  • W. Dornisch. On the influence of integration schemes on accuracy and computational costs for isogeometric shell elements. 12th International Conference on IsoGeometric Analysis (IGA 2024), October 2024, St. Augustine, FL, USA.
  • W. Dornisch. On the use of approximate duals in isogeometric analysis. Kolloquium der Mechanik (Lecture Series in Mechanics), TU Darmstadt, May 2023, Darmstadt, Germany.
  • S. Held and W. Dornisch. Mass lumping scheme for IGA dynamics. 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022), July 2022, Galway, Ireland.
  • W. Dornisch. Efficient Integration Schemes in NURBS-based Isogeometric Analysis – Comparison and Application to Shell Elements. Keynote Lecture at the 7th International Conference on Isogeometric Analysis (IGA 2019), September 2019,  Munich, Germany.
  • W. Dornisch, J. Stöckler and R. Müller. Isogeometric Dual Mortar Coupling for Complex NURBS Surface Patch Models. 13th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIII), July 2018, New York, NY, USA.
  • W. Dornisch, D. Schrade, B.-X. Xu and R. Müller. Coupling of phase field models for ferroelectric and ferromagnetic layers in multiferroic heterostructures. VII International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering (Coupled Problems 2017), June 2017, Rhodes, Greece.
  • W. Dornisch and R. Müller. Approximate dual basis functions for B-splines. 12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XII), July 2016, Seoul, South Korea.
  • W. Dornisch and S. Klinkel. On the choice of the director for isogeometric Reissner–Mindlin shell analysis. 10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 2012), July 2012, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • W. Dornisch and S. Klinkel. Boundary Conditions and Multi-Patch Connections in Isogeometric Analysis. 82nd GAMM Annual Meeting (GAMM 2011), April 2011, Graz, Austria.
 
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Teaching at RPTU

SS26Finite Elements
SS26Engineering Mechanics II
WS25/26Non-linear Finite Elements
WS25/26Engineering Mechanics III
WS25/26Engineering Mechanics I
SS25Finite Elements
SS25Engineering Mechanics II
SS25Non-linear Continuum Mechanics
WS24/25Engineering Mechanics III
WS24/25Engineering Mechanics I
SS24Engineering Mechanics II
SS24Non-linear Continuum Mechanics

 

Curriculum Vitae

Since 04/2024Chair and Professor of Applied Mechanics, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, RPTU University  Kaiserslautern-Landau
04/2021 - 03/2024Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
04/2019 - 03/2024Professor of Structural Analysis and Dynamics, Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
05/2015Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
12/2014 - 03/2019Research Associate, Chair of Applied Mechanics, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, TU Kaiserslautern
10/2012 - 12/2014Research Associate, Chair of Structural Analysis and Dynamics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
05/2010 - 09/2012Research Associate, Institute of Structural Analysis and Dynamics, Department of Civil Engineering, TU Kaiserslautern
03/2007 - 03/2010Recipient of a Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
04/2005 - 03/2010Studies of Civil Engineering, TU Kaiserslautern

Conference organisation

Member of  Scientific Committee
  •  16. Fachtagung Baustatik - Baupraxis, May 2026, Dresden, Germany.
  • 11th International Conference on Isogeometric Analysis (IGA 2023), June 2023, Lyon, France.
  • 3rd ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference (ECCOMAS YIC GACM 2015), July 2015, Aachen, Germany.

 

Organisation of Mini-Symposa and Sessions (together with)
  • Section S04- Structural Mechanics within the Joint Annual Meeting of GAMM and DMV (GAMM & DMV 2027), March 2027, Ulm, Germany. (Ralf Voß)
  • IGA for thin structures within the 14th International Conference on Isogeometric Analysis (IGA 2026), October 2026, Tokyo, Japan. (Josef Kiendl, Bastian Oesterle, Roger Sauer, Y. Taniguchi)
  • Isogeometric Analysis of Thin Structures within the 17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026), July 2026, Munich, Germany. (Josef Kiendl, Leonardo Leonetti, Bastian Oesterle, Alessandro Reali, Roger Sauer)
  • Flächentragwerke within the 16. Fachtagung Baustatik - Baupraxis, May 2026, Dresden, Germany. (Carolin Birk, Bastian Oesterle, Manfred Bischoff, Josef Kiendl)
  • IGA for thin structures within the 13th International Conference on Isogeometric Analysis (IGA 2025), September 2025, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. (Bastian Oesterle, Josef Kiendl, Hugo Verhelst)
  • Co-Organisation der Section S04 - Structural Mechanics within the 95th GAMM Annual Meeting (GAMM 2025), March 2025, Poznan, Poand. (Josef Kiendl, Roger Sauer)
  • IGA for thin structures within the 12th International Conference on Isogeometric Analysis (IGA 2024), October 2024, St. Augustine (FL), USA. (Josef Kiendl)
  • Flächentragwerke within the 15. Fachtagung Baustatik - Baupraxis, March 2024, Hamburg, Germany. (Manfred Bischoff, Josef Kiendl)
  • IGA for thin structureswithin the 11th International Conference on Isogeometric Analysis (IGA 2023), June 2023, Lyon, France. (Bastian Oesterle, Roland Wüchner)
  • Isogeometric and Non-standard Discretization Schemes for Computational Structural and Solid Mechanics within the 6th ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference (YIC 2021), July 2021, Valencia, Spain. (Bastian Oesterle, Oliver Weeger, Robin Bouclier, Simone Morganti, Pablo Antolin, Sascha Eisenträger)
  • Novel theories, formulations, methods and applications in structural mechanicswithin the 5th ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference (YIC 2019), September 2019, Cracow, Poland. (Oliver Weeger, Bastian Oesterle, Hauke Gravenkamp)
  • Novel Formulations and Discretization Methods for Thin-walled Structures within the 8th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics (GACM 2019), August 2019, Kassel, Germany. (Bastian Oesterle, Oliver Weeger, Josef Kiendl)
  • Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Soft Robots and Realization of Technical Applications within the 13th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 2018), July 2018, New York (NY), USA. (Kristin de Payrebrune, Oliver Weeger)
  • Isogeometric Methods within the 89th GAMM Annual Meeting (GAMM 2018), March 2018, Munich, Germany. (Stefanie Elgeti)
  • Non-standard Formulations and Discretization Methods for Thin-walled Structures within the 7th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics (GACM 2017), October 2017, Stuttgart, Germany. (Josef Kiendl)
  • Organisation des Mini-Symposiums Isogeometric methods for structural mechanicswithin the 3rd ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference (YIC GACM 2015), July 2015, Aachen, Germany. (Josef Kiendl)

PhD Supervisions

Completed PhD Supervisions
  • Bastian Vollrath: Erweiterungen der Vereinfachten Fließzonentheorie hinsichtlich der Anwendung von Mehr-Parameterbelastungen und der Berücksichtigung von Theorie II. Ordnung, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, 2023

 

Primary Supervisor of Ongoing PhD Projects
  • Susanne Held, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, since 2019
  • Lisa Stammen, since 2019

 

Second Examiner for Doctoral Dissertations
  • Darius Olesch: Adaptive Strategies for Exponential Shape Functions in Fracture Phase Field Models, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, 2025
  • Yan Sikang: A phase field model for cyclic fatigue, TU Darmstadt, 2024
  • Milan Wallner: Semi-analytical methods for the numerical analysis of plate and shell structures, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2022
  • Georgia Kikis: Locking and brittle fracture in isogeometric Reissner-Mindlin plate and shell analysis, RWTH Aachen, 2022
  • Robert Bischof: A Finite Element Model for the Simulation of Micro-Cutting, TU Kaiserslautern, 2021

Professional memberships

  • Appointed Member of the DAAD Selection Committee for Higher Education Projects Abroad (A) (2022–2028)
  • International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM)
  • German Association for Computational Mechanics (GACM)
  • Forschungsvereinigung Baustatik-Baupraxis e.V.