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.

Speaker

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Stein

Combustion Technology Division of the Engler-Bunte-Institut | Karslruhe 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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