Thesis (f/m/d) Scalable Gradient-Based Target Point Optimization for Commercial Solar Tower Power Plants
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. · Cologne
ThesisGerman needed: not said
Still open on 12 NovKey facts
- Pay
- Paid by public sector tariff agreement
- Duration
- 6 months
- Fixed term of six months
- Job starts
- As soon as possible
What you'll do
- Analysis of the runtime behaviour of the ARTIST-based target point optimisation with increasing number of heliostats
- Development and evaluation of strategies for runtime reduction: heliostat clustering, batch-wise gradient calculation, hierarchical optimisation methods
- Goal: optimisation runs that are feasible for complete commercial fields in near-operational computation times
What you need
- Very good Python skills, especially experience with PyTorch
- Strong interest in physical modelling and numerical optimisation
- Enjoyment of collaborative, structured software development
- Preceding mandatory internship at DLR (or willingness to do so)
- Experience with high-dimensional optimisation problems or ray tracing