E-mail: lukacova@uni-mainz.de
Phone: +49 6131 39-22831

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Institute of Mathematics
Staudingerweg 9
55128 Mainz

2413 – New Physics/Mathematics building
5. Floor
Room 05-433

Office

Brigitte Burkert
Room 05-431
Tel: +49 6131 39-22270
Fax: +49 6131 39-23331

burkertb@uni-mainz.de

Mária Lukáčová is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She is an RMU co-affiliate of TU Darmstadt, deputy spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center “Multiscale Simulation Methods for Systems of Soft Matter,” and a member of the steering committee of the profile area “Mainz Institute for Multiscale Modelling (M³ODEL).”
Lukáčová completed her studies in 1994 at Charles University in Prague. She then conducted postdoctoral research at University of Magdeburg and completed her habilitation in 1998 at Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic. From 2002 to 2009, she was a professor at Hamburg University of Technology and moved to Mainz in 2010.
Her research focuses on numerical methods and the analysis of partial differential equations. She has made significant contributions to the development of structure-preserving methods for hyperbolic conservation laws as well as hybrid multiscale methods for complex fluids. She has received numerous awards, including the Babuška Prize (1995), the Prize of the Czech Learned Society (2002), the Bronze Medal of the University of Košice (2013), the Gutenberg Research College Fellowship (2020), and the Eduard Čech Distinguished Visitor Award (2026).

Curriculum Vitae, CV cartoon

Research group

Research Interests

  • Lectures:
  • Video: Viscoelastic phase separation
  • Video: Compressible Navier-Stokes equations with potential temperature transport

Ongoing projects

Completed Projects

  • 2013-2015
    Large time step asymptotic preserving evolution Galerkin methods for multidimensional system of hyperbolic balance laws
    DFG project, cooperation with S. Noelle (RWTH Aachen)
  • 2006-2010
    Differential Equations with Applications in Science and Engineering (DEASE) http://www.wpi.ac.at/DEASE/, Marie Curie Actions, EU-HRM
    Partners: Wolfgang Pauli Institute Vienna, Uni-Hamburg, ENS Paris, MPI Toulouse, FORTH Heraklion
  • 2002-2005
    Hyperbolic and Kinetic Equations: Asymptotics, Numerics, Analysis (HYKE)
    EU-Research Training Network
  • 2001-2003
    Grant of the Volkswagen Foundation Agency “Numerical modelling of complex compressible flows with genuinely multi-dimensional methods”
    Project in the Program: “Cooperation with Scientists and Engineers from the Central and Eastern Europe”, Technical University Brno
    (cooperation with G. Warnecke)
  • 1999-2002
    Grant of the Czech Grant Agency: “Mathematical modelling of some engineering problems in continuum mechanics”, Technical University Brno
    (cooperation with A. Zenisek and J. Francu)
  • 1999-2002
    Grant of the Technical University of Brno CZ 39001/220
    (cooperation with M. Jicha and A. Zenisek)
  • 1997-1999
    Grant of the Czech Grant Agency: “Mathematical modelling of some nonlinear problems of continuum mechanics”, Technical University Brno
    (cooperation with A. Zenisek and J. Francu)
  • 1996-2000
    DFG-Project: “Genuinely multi-dimensional methods for hyperbolic conservation laws”, University of Magdeburg
    (cooperation with G. Warnecke and K.W. Morton), see photo
  • 1993-1994
    Grant of the Czech Grant Agency, Charles University Prague
    (cooperation with M. Feistauer and J. Felcman)

Books

Journals

Conference proceedings

Thesis

  • [2] Mathematical modeling of compressible flow, habilitation, 1998, Technical University Brno.
  • [1] Numerical solution of compressible flow, doctoral dissertation, 1994, Charles University Prague.

Preprints/submitted papers

  • [2] M. Lukacova-Medvidova: On the error estimate of a combined finite element – finite volume method, Otto-von-Guericke-Uni Magdeburg, Preprint No.9, 1996, pp. 19.
  • [1] J. Felcman, M. Lukacova, G. Warnecke, W.L. Wendland : Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Euler Equations, Bericht 95-15, research report Mathematisches Institut A, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, 1995, pp. 22.

Organization of Workshops and Conferences

Topics for master’s theses:

In my group we are engaged in the development of modern, efficient procedures for various evolution equations (i.e. time-dependent partial differential equations). Current research topics include modeling of blood flow, fluid-structure interaction, long time-step methods for hyperbolic conservation equations with applications in Meteorology and Geophysics, hybrid multiscale methods for polymers.

Below you will find some examples of possible final theses. Other topics related to the above research units can be assigned on request. Previous knowledge from the numerics lectures is expected.

Overview of the courses:

Sommersemester 2026

Winter semester 2025/26

Sommersemester 2025

Forschungsfreisemester im Rahmen von Gutenberg Forschungskolleg

Wintersemester 2024/25

Sommersemester 2024

Forschungsfreisemester im Rahmen von Gutenberg Forschungskolleg

Wintersemester 2023/24

Sommersemester 2023

Forschungsfreisemester im Rahmen von Gutenberg Forschungskolleg

Wintersemester 2022/23

Sommersemester 2022

Wintersemester 2021/22

Sommersemester 2021

Forschungsfreisemester im Rahmen von Gutenberg Forschungskolleg

Wintersemester 2020/21

Wintersemester 2019/20 und Sommersemester 2020

Forschungsfreisemester
visiting Institute of Appl. Physics and Comput. Mathematics , Beijing & University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong

Sommersemester 2019

Wintersemester 2018/19

Sommersemester 2018

Wintersemester 2017/18

Sommersemester 2017

Wintersemester 2016/17

Sommersemester 2016

Wintersemester 2015/16

Sommersemester 2015

Forschungsfreisemester

Oberseminar Numerik

Wintersemester 2014/15

Sommersemester 2014

Wintersemester 2013 /14

Sommersemester 2013

Wintersemester 2012/13

Sommersemester 2012

Wintersemester 2011/12

Sommersemester 2011

Wintersemester 2010/11

sabbatical semester

Sommersemester 2010

Lecture Notes on Computational Methods in Fluid Dynamics
Gallery of Fluid Flow Images
The Virtual Album of Fluid Motion

Sommersemester 2006

sabbatical semester
visiting Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, University of Maryland

Sommersemester 2003-2005, 2007-2009

Mathematics II (General Engineering Science), TU Hamburg-Harburg
Numerical Modelling in Fluid Dynamics I (Finite Volume Methods / inviscid flows), TU Hamburg-Harburg

Wintersemester 2002/03-2009/10

Mathematics I (General Engineering Science), TU Hamburg-Harburg
Numerical Modelling in Fluid Dynamics II (Finite Element Methods / viscous flows), TU Hamburg-Harburg

  • Seminar for Mathematics: Wave Motion (WS 2004/05) , TUHH
  • Seminar for Mathematics: Multiscale Methods (WS 2005/06) , TUHH
  • Seminar for Mathematics: Stochastic Tools in Mathematics and Science (WS 2006/07, WS 2007/08) , TUHH

Sommersemester 2002

Sophia Kovalevskaja Gastprofessorin, Universität Kaiserslautern

1996 – 2001

Numerics I, Mathematics III (ODE, PDE), Computational Fluid Dynamics, Technical University Brno, Czech Republic