NGSolveUserMeeting2026

Please find below the meeting materials and resources for the NGSolve User Meeting 2026. This includes presentation slides, source codes, and additional documentation.

Information

• Date: June 29 – July 1, 2026 (Get Together on June 28)
• Location: ZHAW School of Engineering, Building TH, Technikumstrasse 9, 8401 Winterthur, Switzerland
  • Sessions: TH 343
  • Registration / Coffee Breaks: TH 363
• Lunch break: A brief overview can be found here

Preliminary Programme Schedule

Get Together — Sunday, June 28, 2026

• 19:00: Get together at Nelson Pub Winterthur

  Note: The old town will be lively as the Albanifest festival runs until 10:00 PM.

Day 1 — Monday, June 29, 2026

• 08:30: Registration
• 09:00 - 12:00: Introduction to NGSolve (Christoph Lehrenfeld)
  • 9:00 - 9:45 „Taming the Beast” (Introduction I): Basics, Geometries and First PDEs
  • 9:45 - 10:15 Coffee break
  • 10:15 - 11:00 „In the Saddle” (Introduction II): Features for Applications
  • 11:00 - 11:15 Short break
  • 11:15 - 12:00 „Taking Flight” (Introduction III): Advanced Techniques
• 12:00 - 14:00: Lunch Break
• 14:00 - 18:00: Recent developments
  • 14:00 - 14:45 Joachim Schöberl: New developments in NGSolve
  • 14:45 - 15:15 Jay Gopalakrishnan: Capturing losses and features of optical fiber modes.
  • 15:15 - 15:45 Umberto Zerbinati: ngsVEM: A Lightning Virtual Element Method Library for NGSolve
  • 15:45 - 16:30 Coffee break
  • 16:30 - 17:00 Philip Lederer: Recent advances in the Dream-solver package
  • 17:00 - 17:15 Natalia Tylek: Linear Solvers on GPUs
  • 17:15 - 17:30 Rafael Dorigo: BEM in NGSolve

Day 2 — Tuesday, June 30, 2026

• 09:00 - 12:00: User sessions
  • 9:00 - 9:20 Kengo Sugahara: Coreform Cubit Integration with NGSolve (online)
    Power Point Presentation
  • 9:30 - 9:50 Takaaki Yano: Bi-directional Weak Coupling of Integral Element Method and NGSolve for Magnetic Levitation Analysis (online)
    Power Point Presentation
  • 9:50 - 10:20 Coffee break
  • 10:20 - 10:40 Paul Stocker: NGSTrefftz: Recent Developments (Abstract)
  • 10:50 - 11:20 Camilo Tello Fachin: Coupled Finite Element Modeling of Ground Heat Recovery with Ice Formation (Abstract)
  • 11:30 - 11:50 Juan Pablo Carbajal, Reza Housseini: Wave propagation in non-Newtonian media
• 12:00 - 14:00: Lunch Break
• 14:00 - 18:00: User sessions & insights from the core team
  • 14:00 - 14:20 Sosoho-Abasi Udongwo: State-Space Concatenation of Reduced Finite Element Models for Accelerator Structures
  • 14:30 - 14:50 Tim van Beeck: Releasing the pressure for Surface Navier-Stokes (Abstract)
  • 15:00 - 15:20 Yashwanth Sooriyakanthan: Efficient Computational Simulation of Floor-Borne Vibrations in Magnet Resonance Imaging Scanners
  • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
  • 16:00 - 16:20 Christopher Lackner: Simulating a rotating fan in a heat-pump unit with NGSolve: an MCS–IPCS solver
  • 16:20 - 16:50 Alexandre Tyl: Solving a Heat-Flow system using NGSolve
  • 16:50 - 17:00 Short break
  • 17:00 - 17:30 Matthias Hochsteger, Christopher Lackner: WebGPU - Successor to webgui
  • 17:30 - 18:00 Christopher Lackner, Matthias Hochsteger: ngapp + ngsolve_gui
• 19:00: Workshop Dinner at Alte Kaserne

Day 3 — Wednesday, July 1, 2026

• 09:00 - 12:00: Mini sessions
  • 9:00 - 9:45 Session 1: ngapp, NGSolve GUI
  • 9:45 - 10:15 Coffee break
  • 10:15 - 11:00 Session 2: ngsolve webgpu, webgpu, webgpu demo notebook,Shared etherpad
  • 11:00 - 11:15 Short break
  • 11:15 - 12:00 Session 3
• 12:00: Wrap-up and goodbyes

Group Photo