KCDS Hackathon 2025

Hack the TurbulenceEnhancing Flow Resolution with AI

16. - 19. September 2025

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Challenge

Turbulent flows — the chaotic, swirling motions you see in storm clouds, the wake behind an airplane wing, or the frothy swirls in your morning cup of coffee — span a vast range of interacting scales. Resolving every vortex from meter-wide eddies down to tiny millimeter-scale whirls requires grids with billions of points and supercomputers running for days or weeks. Coarse, low-resolution simulations run quickly but miss critical small-scale physics. The Hack the Turbulence hackathon challenges you to bridge this gap. Develop deep-learning models that take coarse turbulent flow data and reconstruct high-resolution fields, while respecting the underlying physics. We invite students and researchers from mathematics, data science, engineering, and physics to join us for four days of hands-on innovation. Participants will enhance their skills in data analysis and scientific machine learning. They will also connect with researchers from different disciplines and get hands-on experience with KIT's supercomputer cluster. This event is organized by machine learning enthusiasts from KCDS, with support from KIT and SCC.

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Oliver Stein

Combustion Technology Division of the Engler-Bunte-Institut | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Dr.-Ing. Ali Shamooni

Institute for Reactive Flows| University of Stuttgart

Program

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Venue

KIT - Departement of Mathematics
Englerstraße 2
76131 Karlsruhe
Geb. 20.30 | SR 0.014

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