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Technische Universität München

Dr.-Ing. Suneth Warnakulasuriya

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Suneth Warnakulasuriya

Dienstort

Lehrstuhl für Statik und Dynamik (Prof. Wüchner)

Theresienstr. 90
80333 München

Lebenslauf

seit 2024 Leiter des Simulationslabors, Lehrstuhl für Statik und Dynamik, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Roland Wüchner, Technische Universität München
2022 - 2024Postdoktorand am Institut für Statik und Dynamik, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Roland Wüchner, Technische Universität Braunschweig
2028 - 2022Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Statik, Prof. Dr.-Ing. K.-U. Bletzinger, Technische Universität München
2015 - 2018Student, Master Computational Mechanics an der Technische Universität München
2013 - 2015Maschinenbauingenieur bei Co-Energi (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka
2009 - 2013Student, Bachelor Maschinenbau an der Universität Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Fluid-Struktur-Wechselwirkung (FSI)
  • Adjungierte Sensitivitätsanalyse für statische und dynamische Probleme
  • Gekoppelte multiphysikalische, auf der Adjungierten basierende Sensitivitätsanalyse
  • Formoptimierung
  • Topologieoptimierung
  • Optimale Sensorplatzierung
  • Digitaler Zwillung von Strukturen

Lehre

  • Strukturoptimierung 1
  • Nichtlineare Finite-Elemente-Methode
  • Die Finite-Elemente-Methode für Fluid-Struktur Wechelwirkung mittels Open-Source Software
  • Onboarding Workshop Kratos Multiphysics

Veröffentlichungen

2026

  • Antonau, Ihar; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali; Löhner, Rainald; Antil, Harbir; Wüchner, Roland: Numerical benchmarks for High-Fidelity Digital Twins: damage localization. WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 (17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics 10th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering), 2026 mehr… BibTeX
  • Löhner, Rainald; Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali; Antil, Harbir; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Antonau, Ihar; Wüchner, Roland: Determining Weaknesses in Structures from Fiber-Optic Measurement Devices. WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 (17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics 10th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering), 2026 mehr… BibTeX
  • Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Antonau, Ihar; Antil, Harbir; Löhner, Rainald; Wüchner, Roland: Damage Progression Detection in Structures Using Time-Indexed Deformation Measurements. WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 (17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics 10th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering), 2026 mehr… BibTeX
  • Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Kodakkal, Anoop; Antonau, Ihar; Antil, Harbir; Löhner, Rainald; Wüchner, Roland: Wind flow field reconstruction by boundary condition identification in structures from sparse measurements. 8th International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE-8), 2026 mehr… BibTeX
  • Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali; Airaudo, Facundo N.; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Antonau, Ihar; Lohner, Rainald; Antil, Harbir; Wuechner, Roland: System Identification in Structures Subject to Dynamic Loading. AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 2026 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Antonau, Ihar; Airaudo, Facundo N.; Antil, Harbir; Lohner, Rainald; Wuechner, Roland: High-Fidelity Load Identification Using Deformation Measurements for Static and Dynamic Problems. AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 2026 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Ansari, Talhah; Goldbach, Ann-Kathrin; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Antonau, Ihar; Antil, Harbir; Löhner, Rainald; Wüchner, Roland: System Identification in Membrane Structures: Seam Stiffness Calibration. 8th TensiNet Symposium 2026 & 7th Essener Membranbau Symposium 2026, 2026 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Ansari, Talhah; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Antonau, Ihar; Wüchner, Roland; Antil, Harbir; Löhner, Rainald: Towards Environmentally Coupled Structural System Identification. IABSE Congress 2026, 2026 mehr… BibTeX
  • Antonau, Ihar; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Ansari, Talhah; Löhner, Rainald; Antil, Harbir; Wüchner, Roland: Damage localization in steel and concrete structures based on thermal loading. 10th Civil Structural Health Monitoring Workshop, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), 2026 mehr… BibTeX
  • Löhner, Rainald; Airaudo, Facundo N.; Antil, Harbir; Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Wüchner, Roland; Antonau, Ihar: High-Fidelity Digital Twins: Detection, Localization and Determination of Weaknesses, Material Parameters and Forces in Structures. Advances in Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control. EUROGEN 2025. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 60. Springer, Cham., 2026, 14--25 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Antonau, Ihar; Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali; Löhner, Rainald; Antil, Harbir; Wüchner, Roland: Optimal Sensor Placement for Damage Localization in High-Fidelity Digital Twins: Development of Benchmark Scenarios. WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 (17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics 10th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering), 2026 mehr… BibTeX
  • Wüchner, Roland; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Goldbach, Ann-Kathrin; Antonau, Ihar; Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali: High-Fidelity Digital Twins of Structures. 16. Fachtagung Baustatik-Baupraxis. Dresden, 28 and 29 May 2026, 2026 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2025

  • Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali; Löhner, Rainald; Wüchner, Roland; Antil, Harbir; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Antonau, Ihar; Airaudo, Facundo: Adjoint-based recovery of thermal fields from displacement or strain measurements. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 438, 2025, 117818 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Antonau, Ihar; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali; Löhner, Rainald; Antil, Harbir; Airaudo, Facundo; Wüchner, Roland: Challenges In Realizing A Digital Twin Framework. 11th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics for Young Scientists, 2025 mehr… BibTeX
  • Antonau, Ihar; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Baars, Susanna; Baimuratov, Ildar; Wittenborg, Tim; Kreuzeberg, Lasse; Attravanam, Achyuth; Wüchner, Roland: Challenges in realizing 3rd generation multidisciplinary design optimization. Advances in Computational Science and Engineering 5 (0), 2025, 1-21 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Antonau, Ihar; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Wuechner, Roland; Airaudo, Facundo; Lohner, Rainald; Antil, Harbir; Ansari, Talhah: Comparison of the First Order Algorithms to Solve System Identification Problems of High-Fidelity Digital Twins. AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2025 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Antonau, Ihar; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Wuechner, Roland; Airaudo, Facundo; Lohner, Rainald; Antil, Harbir; Ansari, Talhah: Comparison of the First Order Algorithms to Solve System Identification Problems of High-Fidelity Digital Twins. AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2025 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Ihar Antonau, Suneth Warnakulasuriya, Talhah Ansari, Roland Wüchner, Rainald Löhner, Facundo Airaudo, Harbir Antil: Advancing high-fidelity Digital Twin Technology for Structural Health Monitoring. 13th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, 2025 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Ihar Antonau; Suneth Warnakulasuriya; Talhah Ansari; Facundo Airaudo; Harbir Antil; R. Löhner; Roland Wüchner: Formulation and regularization of the optimization problem for adjoint-based digital twin construction. 16th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (WCSMO 2025), 2025 mehr… BibTeX
  • Lohner, Rainald; Airaudo, Facundo N; Antil, Harbir; Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Wüchner, Roland; Antonau, Ihar: Adjoint-Based Recovery of Weaknesses, Material Parameters and Forces. Resúmenes de Mecánica Computacional 2 (1), 2025, 15--15 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Lohner, Rainald; Airaudo, Facundo; Antil, Harbir; Wuechner, Roland; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Antonau, Ihar; Ansari, Talhah: High-Fidelity Digital Twins: Zooming in on Weaknesses in Structures. AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2025 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Martínez-López, Guillermo; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Wüchner, Roland; Lázaro, Carlos: Flutter mitigation in bridges with distortionable cross-sections. Forschungskolloquium Baustatik-Baupraxis 2025, 2025 mehr… BibTeX
  • Martínez-López, Guillermo; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Wüchner, Roland; Piccardo, Giuseppe; Repetto, Maria Pia; Lázaro, Carlos: Flutter derivatives of distortionable twin-box bridge decks from URANS simulations. 2025 International Workshop in Engineering Research Infrastructures for European Synergies (ERIES-IW2025), 2025 mehr… BibTeX
  • Roland Wüchner; Suneth Warnakulasuriya; Ihar Antonau; Talhah Ansari; Facundo Airaudo; Rainald Löhner; Harbir Antil: High-Fidelity Digital Twinning Approaches for Coupled Field Problems. XI International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, 2025 mehr… BibTeX
  • Talhah Ansari, Rainald Löhner, Roland Wüchner, Harbir Antil, Suneth Warnakulasuriya, Ihar Antonau, Facundo Airaudo: Adjoint-Based Material Parameters and Constitutive Model Identification From Deformation Measurements. 3rd IACM Digital Twins in Engineering Conference (DTE 2025) & 1st ECCOMAS Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods in Applied Science (AICOMAS 2025), 2025 mehr… BibTeX
  • Talhah Ansari, Rainald Löhner, Roland Wüchner, Harbir Antil, Suneth Warnakulasuriya, Ihar Antonau, Facundo Airaudo: Adjoint-Based Material Parameters and Constitutive Model Identification From Deformation Measurements. Sayas Numerics Day 2025, 2025 mehr… BibTeX
  • Talhah Ansari; Suneth Warnakulasuriya; Ihar Antonau; Ann-Kathrin Goldbach, Rainald Loehner; Harbir Antil; Facundo Airaudo; Roland Wuechner: Adjoint-based constitutive parameters identification in membrane structures using deformation measurements. XII International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, Structural Membranes, 2025 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Talhah S.A. Ansari, Suneth Warnakulasuriya, Roland Wüchner, Kai-Uwe Bletzinger, Ihar Antonau, Rainald Löhner, Harbir Antil, Facundo Airaudo: Adjoint-based system identification for model validation and qualification. Engineering Materials, Structures, Systems and Methods for a More Sustainable Future, 2025 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Talhah Shamshad Ali Ansari, Suneth Warnakulasuriya, Ihar Antonau, Rainald Löhner Harbir Antil, Facundo Airaudo, Roland Wüchner: Adjoint-based Investigation of Sensor Fault Detection in System Identification. 11th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics for Young Scientists, 2025 mehr… BibTeX
  • Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Antonau, Ihar; Ansari, Talhah Shamshad Ali; Löhner, Rainald; Antil, Harbir; Airaudo, Facundo; Wüchner, Roland: Exploring Damage Localization Possibilities Using Adjoint Methods for Specific Sensor Arrangements. 11th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics for Young Scientist, 2025 mehr… BibTeX

2024

  • Airaudo, Facundo; Antil, Harbir; Löhner, Rainald; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Antonau, Ihar; Wüchner, Roland: On the Use of Risk Measures in Digital Twins to Identify Weaknesses in Structures. 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 2024 mehr… BibTeX
  • Kelemen, Máté; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Wüchner, Roland: Improving algebraic multigrid performance for high-order finite elements with multipoint constraints. 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics, 2024 mehr… BibTeX
  • Löhner, Rainald; Airaudo, Facundo; Antil, Harbir; Wüchner, Roland; Meister, Fabian; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth: High‐fidelity digital twins: Detecting and localizing weaknesses in structures. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2024 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Löhner, Rainald; Airaudo, Facundo; Antil, Harbir; Wüchner, Roland; Meister, Fabian; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth: High‐fidelity digital twins: Detecting and localizing weaknesses in structures. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2024 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Antonau, Ihar; Airaudo, Facundo; Löhner, Rainald; Antil, Harbir; Wüchner, Roland: Optimal Sensor Placement Methodology for Adjoint-based Weakening Localization in Structures. 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 2024 mehr… BibTeX
  • Wüchner, Roland; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Kalender, Cornelia; Winkelmann, Ulf: Aspekte und hintergründe von abgesicherten numerischen strömungs-und sensitivitätsanalysen im windingenieurwesen. In: Baustatik-Baupraxis. Technical University of Hamburg, 2024 mehr… BibTeX
  • Wüchner, Roland; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Asl, Reza; Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe; D'Acunto, Pierluigi; Herding, Friedrich; Lowke, Dirk: Free-form Structural Optimization for Additive Manufacturing in Construction. Digital Concrete 2024 - Supplementary Proceedings, 2024 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2023

  • Antonau, Ihar; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe; Bluhm, Fabio Michael; Hojjat, Majid; Wüchner, Roland: Correction: Latest developments in node-based shape optimization using Vertex Morphing parameterization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 66 (2), 2023 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Martínez-López, Guillermo; Péntek, Máté; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Lázaro, Carlos; Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe: Reducing the computational cost of forced-motion simulations to obtain flutter derivatives. 16th International Conference on Wind Engineering, 2023 mehr… BibTeX

2022

  • Antonau, Ihar; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe; Bluhm, Fabio Michael; Hojjat, Majid; Wüchner, Roland: Latest developments in node-based shape optimization using Vertex Morphing parameterization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 65 (7), 2022 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Antonau, Ihar; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe; Bluhm, Fabio Michael; Hojjat, Majid; Wüchner, Roland: Latest developments in node-based shape optimization using Vertex Morphing parameterization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 65 (7), 2022 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Péntek, Máté; Martínez-López, Guillermo; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe: Discussing the appropriate ranges of y+ for the accuracy of CFD simulations at high Reynolds numbers, Conference Proceedings. 8th European-African Conference on Wind Engineering, 2022, 219-222 mehr… BibTeX
  • Sakuma, Mayu; Pepper, Nick; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Montomoli, Francesco; Wuch-ner, Roland; Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe: Multi-fidelity uncertainty quantification of high Reynolds number turbulent flow around a rectangular 5:1 Cylinder. Wind and Structures 34 (1), 2022, 127-136 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Sakuma, Mayu; Pepper, Nick; Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Montomoli, Francesco; Wuch-ner, Roland; Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe: Multi-fidelity uncertainty quantification of high Reynolds number turbulent flow around a rectangular 5:1 Cylinder. Wind and Structures 34 (1), 2022, 127-136 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Warnakulasuriya, Suneth: Development of Methods for Finite Element-Based Sensitivity Analysis and Goal-Directed Mesh Refinement Using the Adjoint Approach for Steady and Transient Flows. Technical University of Munich, 2022 mehr… BibTeX
  • Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Pentek, Mate; Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe: Applicability of discrete adjoints for wind comfort optimization. 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 2022 mehr… BibTeX
  • Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Péntek, Máté; Hackett, Daniel; Wüchner, Roland: Investigating the applicability of shape sensitivities for improved wind comfort in balcony regions. 8th European-African Conference on Wind Engineering, 2022, 139-142 mehr… BibTeX

2018

  • Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Andre, Michael; Wüchner, Roland; Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe: Stabilization of a time-dependent discrete adjoint solver for chaotic incompressible flows. 89th GAMM Annual Meeting, 2018 mehr… BibTeX
  • Warnakulasuriya, Suneth; Andre, Michael; Wüchner, Roland; Bletzinger, Kai‐Uwe: Stabilization of a Time‐Dependent Discrete Adjoint Solver for Chaotic Incompressible Flows. PAMM 18 (1), 2018 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
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