Alena Kopanicakova

Alena Kopanicakova
Postdoctoral researcher, Group Krause
Alena Kopanicakova is a researcher at the Institute of Computational Science in Lugano. She has received her PhD degree at USI in November 2020. Her research focuses on the nonlinear multilevel solution strategies.
Research
Publications:
1. Kopaničáková, Alena, and Krause, Rolf. "Multilevel Active-Set Trust-Region (MASTR) Method for Bound Constrained Minimization." (Submitted, 2021)
2. Kothari, Hardik, and Kopaničáková, Alena, and Krause, Rolf. "A matrix-free multigrid preconditioner for Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov Methods." (Submitted, 2021)
3. Chegini, Fatemeh, and Kopaničáková, Alena, and Krause, Rolf and Weiser, Martin. "Efficient Identification of Scars using Heterogenous Model Hierarchies." EP Europace 23 (Supplement_1), i113-i122. 2021
4. Zulian, Patrick*, and Kopaničáková, Alena*, and Nestola, Maria and Fink, Andreas and Fadel, Nur and Vandevondele, Joost and Krause, Rolf. (*Equal contribution). "Large scale simulation of pressure induced phase-field fracture propagation using Utopia." (Submitted, 2020). Pdf download (archive pre-print).
5. Bilgen, Carola, and Kopaničáková, Alena, and Krause, Rolf, and Weinberg, Kerstin. "A phase-field approach to pneumatic fracture." (Submitted, 2020).
6. Braglia, Vanessa*, and Kopaničáková, Alena*, and Krause, Rolf. "Multilevel Approach to Training." (*Equal contribution). Workshop on ”Beyond first-order methods in ML systems” at ICML Conference. (2020). Pdf download (archive pre-print). Short video.
7. Gaedke-Merzhäuser, Lisa*, and Kopaničáková, Alena*, and Krause, Rolf. "Multilevel Minimization for Deep Residual Networks." (*Equal contribution). (2020). Pdf download (archive pre-print).
8. Kopaničáková, Alena, and Krause, Rolf. "Recursive multilevel trust region method with application to fully monolithic phase-field models of brittle fracture." Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 112720 (2020). Pdf download (archive pre-print).
9. Kopaničáková, Alena, and Krause, Rolf, and Tamstorf, Rasmus. "Subdivision-Based Nonlinear Multiscale Cloth Simulation." SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 41, no. 5 (2019): S433-S461. Pdf download.
10. Bilgen, Carola, and Kopaničáková, Alena and Krause, Rolf, and Weinberg, Kerstin. "A detailed investigation of the model influencing parameters of the phase‐field fracture approach." GAMM‐Mitteilungen (2019): e202000005. Pdf download.
11. Bilgen, Carola, and Kopaničáková, Alena and Krause, Rolf, and Weinberg, Kerstin. "A phase-field approach to conchoidal fracture." Meccanica 53, no. 6 (2018): 1203-1219. Pdf download.
12. Bilgen, Carola, and Kopaničáková, Alena and Krause, Rolf, and Weinberg, Kerstin. "A phase‐field approach to pneumatic fracture." PAMM 17, no. 1 (2017): 71-74. Pdf download.
Software:
Contributor of UTOPIA (C++ embedded domain specific language designed for parallel non-linear solution strategies and finite element analysis)