Research

The Chair contributes to the development and application of fast and high-resolution imaging techniques for the measurement of physical field quantities, such as phase and component distributions, chemical species concentrations and temperature in technical processes and in fundamental experimental research.

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Insight into our Research Areas

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Topics

The research focuses on imaging techniques with high spatial and temporal resolution in multiphase flows, methods of automated image analysis and data fusion and process and flow diagnostics in distinct technical application areas.

This figure provides a diagram of experimental data showing the increase of gas holdup with increasing superficial gas velocity in a bubble column. Furthermore the cross-sectional distribution of the gas is shown for different operating conditions.

Research projects

The scientists and students of the chair are involved with several research projects about various physical phenomena in thermal fluid dynamics to improve the efficiency and safety of technical processes.

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Publications

The scientific results are published in numerous refereed journals, conference proceedings, books as well as conference lectures and posters.

Pressure tank at the TOPFLOW facility at HZDR

Experimental facilities

As an important part of the scientific work the scientists and students work at the experimental facilities and laboratories in cooperation with Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.

CAD drawing of a 2D thermal mesh sensor applied into a test facility simulating a part of the boiling water reactor

Imaging Techniques

Research in the field of imaging techniques means designing and developing imaging techniques with high spatial and temporal resolution for the measurement of phase, component and temperature distributions in multiphase flows. Thereby methods for automated image analysis and data fusion for the process and multiphase flows diagnostics play an elementary role. A practical objective is an improved experimental flow diagnostics and multiphase flow measurement in different application areas.