Student Theses

The Institute of Fluid Mechanics supervises student research projects, bachelor and master theses in German or English language in all scientific fields. During their thesis period, the students are integrated into the institute’s team and the projects of the respective division, i. e. they fully comprehend the implication of their work in current research projects of the institute.

If you are interested in doing your thesis at the LSTM, please refer to the following information on our research groups.

Contacts

Prof. Dr. Sc. Techn. Philipp Schlatter Phone number: +49 9131 85-29500 Website:
Siavash Toosi, Ph.D. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29567
Venkatesh Pulletikurthi, Ph.D. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29493

Main research areas

  • High-performance computing
  • Parallel methods
  • Data analysis
  • Uncertainty quantification
  • Code development: Simson, OpenFOAM, Nek5000, Neko

Contacts

Prof. Dr. Sc. Techn. Philipp Schlatter Phone number: +49 9131 85-29500 Website:

Main research areas

  • Turbulent boundary layers
  • Turbulent pipe flow

Contacts

Dr.-Ing. Manuel Münsch Phone number: +49 9131 85-29570 Website:
Suharto Saha, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29572 Website:

Main research areas

  • Turbulent flows via RANS, LES or DNS; LES SGS models
  • Multiphase flows: Numerical prediction of disperse and separated flows
  • Fluid-Structure-Interaction: Semi-implicit coupling for turbulent flows
  • Flows with conjugate heat transfer
  • Optimization: Heat exchangers, vertical axis wind turbines
  • Code development: In-house solver FASTEST-3D, OpenFoam

Methods & techniques

  • Finite-Volume Method, Finite-Element Method
    Numerical optimization via design sweeps, data sampling, genetic algorithms or adjoint optimization

Recent research topics

  • Deep Sea Sampling (DSS): Fluid mechanical design for a minimally invasive deep-sea mining, BMWi
  • ALuVe: Innovative and Actively Controllable Spray Dryer with an Adaptive Air Distribution Unit employing Adaptive Flow Control for Product Range Diversification for the Food Processing Industry, BMWi/ZIM
  • CompactStream: Development of a ventilation system with miniaturized, recuperative heat exchanger made from plastic material with antimicrobial, anti-ice coating, integrated electrostatic filter for particulate matter and scalable air flow, BMWi/ZIM
  • FIT 2.0: Development of a method for application-specific parameterization of forming air impact technology, BMWi/AiF
    Industrial Projects, miscellaneous PLC and SME

Selected former research topics

  • PhaDi: Investigations on the liquid-gas separation and diffusion using porous media under compensated gravity, BMWi/DLR
  • FIT 1.0: Directed local forming air flow for improved material thickness, BMWi/AiF.
    Virtual engineering and optimization of static atomization nozzles for low pressure cleaning of film like soiling, BMWi/AiF
  • ECHOTASC: Essentially consistent high-order accurate schemes for aeroacoustics and usage of thermal sources as sound controller, BMWi/ZIM
    3D modeling and simulation of the triple junction line movement in Czochralski crystal growth, DFG
  • DFG FOR-493: Numerical and experimental investigations of fluid structure interaction in turbulent three-dimensional flows – principle configuration FLUSTRUC, Sub-Project Numerics, DFG

Contacts

Aliena Altmann, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29486 Website:
Simon Wrana, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29489 Website:

Main research areas

  • Multiphase flows: Particle-laden flows, film flows
  • Sensors, optical methods, development and adaption of measurement techniques

Methods & techniques

  • Particle tracking
  • Particle image velocimetry
  • Flow visualization
  • Light sheet techniques
  • Free-surface detection
  • Refractive-image techniques

Recent research topics

  • Impact of inertia on flow-induced particle motion in laminar shear flow, DFG
  • Deep Sea Sampling (DSS): Fluid mechanical design for a minimally invasive deep-sea mining, BMWi
  • Three-dimensional instabilities film flows
  • Substrate impact on flow-induced particle motion in laminar shear flows, DFG
  • Pneumatic testing of valves
  • Industrial Projects, miscellaneous PLC and SME

Selected former research topics

  • Impact of topology on film flows: Eddies, waves, resonance, hydraulic jumps
  • ​Flow-induced particle motion in creeping flows
  • Dunes in shear flows
  • Optimization of cyclone efficiency
  • Material exchange and air entrainment, mass transport through interfaces
  • Instabilities, nonlinear dynamics in fluid mechanics
  • Convection and waves: Bénard-Marangoni, Rayleigh-Bénard

Contacts

Santanu Kumar Basu, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29579 Website:
Markus Neuner, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29489 Website:
Moataz Tolba

Main research areas

  • Narrow-gap rheometry
  • High-shear rates
  • Polymer solutions
  • Biorheology

Methods & techniques

  • Shear rheometry & dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA)
  • Narrow-gap rheometry
  • Viscosity and normal stress measurements @ shear rates from 10-3 – 4∙105 s-1
  • Cell monolayer rheometry
  • In-situ fluorescence microscopy

Recent research topics

  • Improving temperature reliability at high shear rates
  • Linear viscoelasticity of cancerous and non-cancerous cell lines
  • Impact of microtubule-interacting drugs on the rheological properties and protein expression in cancer cells, NRF
  • Second Newtonian region of polymer solutions, DFG
  • Industrial Projects, miscellaneous PLC and SME

Selected former research topics

  • Adhesion limit of cells in shear flow
  • Load limit of cells in shear flow

Contacts

Prof. Dr. habil. Andreas Wierschem Phone number: +49 9131 85-29566 Website:

Main research areas

  • Phase transitions (melting curve, crystallization, solidification)
  • Pressure-dependent material properties (viscosity, density, compressibility, pH value)
  • Flow and temperature fields

Methods & techniques

  • Pressure range up to 4500 bar
  • Temperature controlled autoclaves with optical accessibility (up to 3 windows)
  • In-situ optical methods, microscopy, pH value measurements
  • Rolling and falling ball viscometer
  • Compressibility test
  • Particle image velocimeter

Recent research topicsAbschlussarbeiten

  • Natural fats
  • Optical detection of crystal growth & melting curves
  • Industrial Projects, miscellaneous PLC and SME

Selected former research topics

  • pH value detection for food industrial processes
  • Development of measurement techniques to determine pressure-dependent material properties

Contacts

Prof. Dr. habil. Andreas Wierschem Phone number: +49 9131 85-29566 Website:

Main research areas

  • Air suction, combustion, heat transfer
  • Gas combustion incl. hydrogen combustion
  • Porous burner technology, ovens
  • Non-thermal plasma

Methods & techniques

  • Measurements @ lab and industrial scale
  • Divers experimental, numerical studies and modeling of heat transfer and combustion

Recent research topics

  • H2 combustion for the efficient hydrogen application, BMWi/ZIM
  • Innovative baking in a tunnel oven based on high NIR and IR thermal radiation, BMWi/AiF
  • Development of a novel groundwater treatment for the removal of low concentrated per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and its precursors, based on adsorption and non-thermal plasma, BMWi/ZIM
  • Industrial Projects, miscellaneous PLC and SME

Selected former research topics

  • Atmospheric burner
  • Dark radiators
  • Heat exchangers
  • Geothermal energy
  • Ash characteristics, deposit formation and removal
  • Biomass combustion

Contacts

Eman Bagheri, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-28291 Website:
Florian Wachter, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-28272 Website:
Jörg Riedel, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29505 Website:

Main research areas

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation
  • Computational Aeroacoustics (CAA) Simulation
  • Solver Development in OpenFOAM
  • Fluid-Structure-Acoustic Interaction
  • Discrete Adjoint Optimization
  • Machine Learning Algorithm
  • Multi-Phase Flow
  • Structure Vibration and Modal Analysis

Methods and techniques

  • Finite Volume and Finite Element Methods
  • Pertubated Convective Wave Equations
  • FW-H Methods
  • HPC Computing
  • LES and DNS
  • OpenFoam, StarCCM+, Ansys, SU2, FASTEST3D
  • Simcenter, CFTurbo
  • Psychoacoustic Analysis Program
  • Design Tool for Axial and Radial Impeller

Recent research topics

Selected former research

  • Virtual Vehicle: Simulation of Low-Frequency Vehicle Interior Noise with Wind Excitation
  • Virtual Vehicle: Aeroacoustic Simulation of Rotating Systems in HVAC Systems
  • Bayern-E-home – Optimization and Noise Reduction for Vertical Wind Turbine
  • EU-FET- EUNISION: Extensive UNIfied-domain SimulatiON of the human voice
  • Bavarian Research Alliance: Noise Reduction of Technical Facilities
  • EDA-CAPEM: Conformal Array Performance Estimation Modelling
  • INIFAU: Multiphysical Simulation Model for External Noise Prediction in the Early Development Phase of a Car


Contacts
Felix Czwielong, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-28272 Website:
Christoph Näger, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-28291 Website:
Lukas Saur, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29505 Website:
Jörg Riedel, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29505 Website:

Main research areas

  • Acoustic Test Facilities
  • Hybrid Acoustic PIV
  • Vibro-Acoustic Measurements
  • Microphone Arrays
  • Flow-Acoustic Correlation
  • Flow Visualization
  • Inflight Acoustic Sensors
  • Active Turbulence Grid

Methods and techniques

  • LDA
  • PIV
  • Hot Wire Measurements
  • Laser Scanning Vibrometer
  • Multi-Pressure Systems
  • Kiel-probe Array
  • Smoke Generator
  • Telemetric System
  • Matches Index Refraction Technique
  • Aeroacoustic and Flow Test Facilities
  • Large Wind Tunnel
  • Water Tunnel

Recent research topics

Selected former research

  • Bayern-Green Factory – Design of Low Noise Production Facilities
  • Bayern-E-home – Optimization and Noise Reduction for Vertical Wind Turbines
  • EU FP7 – The Development and Verification of a Novel Modular Air Cooled Condenser for Enhanced Concentrated Solar Power Generation
  • Bavarian Research Alliance: Noise Reduction of Technical Facilities

Contacts

Felix Czwielong, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-28272 Website:
Lukas Saur, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29505 Website:
Jörg Riedel, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29505 Website:

Main research areas

  • Acoustic Test Facilities for Fans
  • Fan Acoustics
  • Turbocharger
  • Active Turbulence Grid
  • Fans by Different Installation Conditions
  • Optimization
  • Multi-Port Measurements
  • Scroll Compressor
  • Wind Turbines
  • Serrated Leading Edge Fan Design
  • Friction Ventilator

Methods and techniques

  • CFD/ CAA
  • FW-H
  • Perturbed Convective Wave Equation (PCWE)
  • Multi-Pressure Systems
  • Kiel-probe Array
  • Telemetric System
  • Axial – and Radial Impeller Test Rig
  • Microphone Array
  • Laser Scanning VibrometerAxial – and Radial Impeller Test Rig
  • Microphone Array
  • Laser Scanning Vibrometer

Recent research topics

Selected former research

  • BoschRexroth: Sound emission of low-pressure axial fans under distorted inflow conditions
  • GardnerDenver: Flow and Flow-Induced Sound Radiation of Side Channel Blowers
  • Bayern-E-home – Optimization and Noise Reduction for Vertical Wind Turbines
  • BFS: Aeroacoustic Sound Generation in Fans and their Sound Radiation
  • INIFAU: Sound Radiation of the Exhaust Gas Turbocharger as a Function of the Compressor and Turbine Inflow

Contacts

Felix Czwielong, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-28272 Website:
Lukas Saur, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29505 Website:
Eman Bagheri, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-28291 Website:

Main research areas

  • Pulsating Heat Pumps
  • Heat Exchanger and Fan Installations
  • Psychoacoustics
  • HCAC Systems
  • Motor Cooling Systems

Methods and techniques

  • CFD /CAA
  • Multi-Pressure Systems
  • Telemetric System
  • Aeroacoustic and Flow Test Facilities
  • Multi-Phase Simulation

Recent research topics

Selected former research

  • INIFAU: Aeroacoustic Noise Prediction of Automotive HVAC Systems
  • INIFAU: Development of a Methodology for the Design of Vehicle Air Conditioning Systems under Consideration of Psychoacoustic
  • BFS: Noise reduction of the ventilation systems of low-energy/passive houses
  • BFS : Noise reduction of the cooling equipment of technical systems and devices
  • Brose: Acoustics of Motor Cooling Fans

Contacts

Felix Czwielong, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-28272 Website:
Jörg Riedel, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29505 Website:

Main research areas

  • Acoustic Metamaterials
  • MPP
  • Resonator
  • Porous Materials
  • Absorber in Flow Systems
  • Kevlar Foils

Methods and techniques

  • MPP
  • Hot Wire Measurements
  • Multi-Port Test Rigs
  • Multi-Pressure Systems

Recent research topics

  • AiF Research Project (20997 N/1): Sound Measurement of Axial Fans in Pipes
  • BMBF: AKUMET3D: Acoustical Metamaterials for Sound Absorption in Pipes

Selected former research

  • Bayern-Green Factory – Design of Low Noise Production Facilities
  • AIF/ZIM: Turbo Resonator for Compressors
  • FLT: Application of Kevlar foils for minimizing the influence of fluid mechanical pressures during acoustic measurements with slot tube probes on fans
  • Schmalz: Development of a silencer for vacuum technology components

Contacts

apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Stefan Becker Phone number: +49 9131 85-29579 Website:

Main research areas

  • Fluid-Structure-Acoustic Interaction
  • Vibro-Acoustic Measurements
  • Inflight Acoustic Sensors
  • Low Noise Drone Flight
  • Active Flow Control
  • Acoustics of E-Bikes

Methods and techniques

  • LDA
  • PIV
  • Laser Scanning Vibrometer
  • Multi-Pressure Systems
  • Aeroacoustic Wind Tunnel
  • Large Wind Tunnel

Recent research topics

  • AkESoFlug: Energy-efficient, acoustically self-optimized drive technology for autonomous aviation

Selected former research

  • BFS – Sound design for Passenger Car Interiors
  • Virtual Vehicle: Simulation of Low-Frequency Vehicle Interior Noise with Wind Excitation
  • INIFAU: Multiphysical Simulation Model for External Noise Prediction in the Early Development Phase of a Car
  • DFG: Inflight Transition Measurements on an Airplane Wing using LDA
  • VW: Active Flow Control on a 1:4 Car Model

Contacts

Christoph Näger, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-28291 Website:
Jörg Riedel, M. Sc. Phone number: +49 9131 85-29505 Website:

Main research areas

Methods and techniques

  • PIV
  • Laser Scanning Vibrometer
  • Multi-Pressure Systems
  • Laser Scanning Vibrometer
  • Artificial Vocal Folds

Recent research topics

Selected former research

  • DFG: The flow-structure interaction and the induced sound on a realistic physical vocal fold model – active model
  • EU-FET- EUNISION: Extensive UNIfied-domain SimulatiON of the human voice
  • University Hospital: Investigation of the influence of an internal fixator on stiffness in the pelvic ring and sacral fractures
  • University Hospital: CFD investigations of medical cement on a bone screw

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