Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications in Astrophysics
Kinetic Transport Simulations and Monte Carlo Particle Codes
Education
Ph.D, Physics
Goethe University
10/2010
Diploma, Physics
Goethe University
10/2006
Positions
2018 - Present | Scientist
2015 - 2018 | Postdoctoral Researcher
Awards
Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow (2015 - 2017)
Best Lecture Award, Carpathian Summer School of Physics, Sinaia, Romania (2014)
Provost's Travel Award for Women in Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (2014)
Feodor-Lynen Fellowship, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (2011 - 2012)
HICforFAIR Fellowship, Helmholtz International Center for FAIR (2010)
Professional Societies
American Physical Society
German Physical Society
Alexander-von-Humboldt Network
Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics - Center for the Evolution of Elements (JINA-CEE)
Publications
Diaw, A., K. Barros, J. Haack, C. Junghans, B. Keenan, Y.W. Li, D. Livescu, N. Lubbers, M. McKerns, R.S. Pavel, D. Rosenberger, I. Sagert, T.C. Germann (August 2020), Multiscale Simulations of Plasma Flows using Active Learning, Phys. Rev. E. 102, 023310
Loiseau, J., H. Lim, M.A. Kaltenborn, O. Korobkin, C.M. Mauney, I. Sagert, W.P. Even, K.B. Bergen (July 2020), FLECSPH: The Next-Generation FleCSIble Parallel Computational Infrastructure for Smoothed Particel Hydrodynamics, Software X (12), 100602
Anderson, J., R. J. Harrison, H. Sekino, B. Sundahl, G. Beylkin, G. I. Fann, S. R.Jensen, I. Sagert (September 2019), On Derivatives of Smooth Functions represented in Multiwavelet Bases, Journal of Comp. Physics: X, 4:100033
Sagert, I., W.P. Even, T.T. Strother (May 2017), Two-Dimensional Implosion Simulations with a Kinetic Particle Code, Phys. Rev. E, 95:053206
Sagert, I., G. I. Fann, F. J. Fattoyev, S. Postnikov, C. J. Horowitz (May 2016), Quantum Simulations of Nuclei and Nuclear Pasta with the Multi-resolution Adaptive Numerical Environment for Scientific Simulations, Phys. Rev. C 93 (5), 055801
Sagert, I., J. Howell, A. Staber, T. Strother, D. Colbry, and W. Bauer (July 2015), Knudsen-number dependence of two-dimensional single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor fluid instabilities, Phys. Rev. E 92 (1), 013009
Fischer, T., M. Hempel, I. Sagert, Y. Suwa, and J. Schaffner-Bielich (Feb. 2014), Symmetry energy impact in simulations of core-collapse supernovae, European Physical Journal A 50, 46
Sagert, I., W. Bauer, D. Colbry, J. Howell, R. Pickett, A. Staber, and T. Strother (June 2014), Hydrodynamic shock wave studies within a kinetic Monte Carlo approach, Journal of Computational Physics 266, 191 - 213
Nishimura, N., T. Fischer, F.-K. Thielemann, C. Froehlich, M. Hempel, R. Kaeppeli, G. Martinez-Pinedo, T. Rauscher, I. Sagert, and C. Winteler (Oct. 2012), Nucleosynthesis in Core-collapse Supernova Explosions Triggered by a Quark-Hadron Phase Transition, The Astrophys. Journal 758, 9
Sagert, I., L. Tolos, D. Chatterjee, J. Schaffner-Bielich, and C. Sturm (2012), Soft nuclear equation of state from heavy-ion data and implications for compact stars, Phys. Rev. C 86 (4), 045802
Fischer, T., I. Sagert, G. Pagliara, M. Hempel, J. Schaffner-Bielich, T. Rauscher, F.-K. Thielemann, R. Kaeppeli, G. Martinez-Pinedo, and M. Liebendoerfer (June 2011), Core-collapse Supernova Explosions Triggered by a Quark-Hadron Phase Transition During the Early Post-bounce Phase, Astrophys. Journal Suppl. 194, 39
Weissenborn, S., I. Sagert, G. Pagliara, M. Hempel, and J. Schaffner-Bielich (Oct. 2011), Quark Matter in Massive Compact Stars, Astrophys. Journal Lett. 740, L14
Dasgupta, B., T. Fischer, S. Horiuchi, M. Liebendoerfer, A. Mirizzi, I. Sagert, and J. Schaffner-Bielich (May 2010), Detecting the QCD phase transition in the next Galactic supernova neutrino burst, Phys. Rev. D 81 (10), 103005
Fischer, T., I. Sagert, M. Hempel, G. Pagliara, J. Schaffner-Bielich, and M. Liebendoerfer (June 2010), Signals of the QCD phase transition in core collapse supernovae - microphysical input and implications on the supernova dynamics, Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 (11), 114102
Bauswein, A., H.-T. Janka, R. Oechslin, G. Pagliara, I. Sagert, J. Schaffner-Bielich, M. M. Hohle, and R. Neuhaeuser (July 2009), Mass Ejection by Strange Star Mergers and Observational Implications, Physical Review Letters 103(1), 011101
Sagert, I., T. Fischer, M. Hempel, G. Pagliara, J. Schaffner-Bielich, A. Mezzacappa, F.-K. Thielemann, and M. Liebendoerfer (Feb. 2009), Signals of the QCD Phase Transition in Core-Collapse Supernovae, Physical Review Letters 102(8), 081101
Sagert, I., J. Schaffner-Bielich (Oct. 2008), Pulsar kicks by anisotropic neutrino emission from quark matter in strong magnetic fields, Astronomy and Astrophysics 489, 281 - 289
Sagert, I., M. Hempel, C. Greiner, and J. Schaffner-Bielich (May 2006), Compact stars for undergraduates, European Journal of Physics 27, 577-610
