The Chair of Fluid Mechanics

The chair of Fluid Mechanics is concerned with basic research in numerous areas, as well as modelling and applications in selected fields. At the chair, simulation methods are developed for different areas of application. These include turbulent flows, also including heat transfer, with applications in aerodynamics, power engineering and electric motors for e-mobility, etc. Furthermore, highly efficient specialized methods are designed for multi-phase flows with bubbles and particles. These methods are also used to simulate three-phase flows in flotation for raw material extraction and particles in microfluidic channels for medical technology and bioprocess engineering. Related discretization techniques are developed for fluid-structure coupling. High-order discretization methods are another research field. They are better suited for upcoming heterogeneous computer systems and have high application potential, e.g. in aerodynamics. Experimental methods are used in the laboratory of the chair to analyse complex multi-phase effects. Experiments on cavitating flows, for example, aim at water treatment with elimination of pharmaceutical residues. Machine learning has been established as an cross-sectional topic in several projects.

The research of the chair aims to expand the basis for sustainable, resource-saving techniques and processes through improved methods and in-depth physical understanding.

In teaching, the Chair of Fluid Mechanics covers the entire range of the topic - physical, numerical and experimental - from the basic lecture to complex fluid-structure coupling and committed to training competent, self-dependent students at an international level.