Research fields and projects
Interface physics

- Interfacial mass transfer

- Viscoelastic two-phase flows

- Wetting & Dewetting

- Surfactant influence

Numerical methods

- Volume of Fluid

- Front Tracking

- Level Set

- Arbitrary Lagrangian / Eulerian (ALE)

Modeling & Analysis

- Multicomponent & multiphase fluid models

- Kinematics of interfaces & contact lines

- Reaction-diffusion-sorption systems

Current projects

DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1194

Subproject: Modelling and VOF based Simulation of the Multiphysics of Irreversible Thermodynamic Transfer Processes at Dynamic Contact Lines (B01)

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DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1194

Subproject: Direct Numerical Simulation of Locally Coupled Transport Processes at Dynamic Contact Lines (B02)

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DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1194

Subproject: Scale bridging simulation of dynamic wetting based on the phase field method (B07)

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DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1194

Subproject: Information Infrastructure (Z-INF)

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Collaborative Project Clean Circles

Project: Scale-reduced modeling and heterogeneous kinetics

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DFG Collaborative Research Centre Transregio 150

Subproject B08: Numerical simulation of the interaction between a drop and a liquid wall film

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NHR4CES

National High Performance Computing for Computational Engineering Sciences (NHR4CES)

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BMBF - Prometh2eus

Project network for optimised material development for technical H2 generation through improved oxygen electrodes

Completed projects

DFG Collaborative Research Centre Transregio 75

Subproject: Modellierung und Simulation von Tropfenkollisionen bei verändertem Umgebungsdruck, hohen Geschwindigkeits- bzw. Konzentrationsgradienten sowie für nicht mischbare Flüssigkeiten (A07)

Funding: 2014-2021

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DFG Priority Programme 1740

Entwicklung und Anwendung einer Methode zur Direkten Numerischen Simulation reaktiver Transportprozesse in Blasensystemen

Funding: 2014-2021

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DFG Priority Programme 1740

Direkte Numerische Simulation der Multiphysik des reaktiven Stoffübergangs an Einzelblasen und Blasengruppen

Funding: 2014-2022

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DFG Priority Programme 1506

Experimental and Computational Analysis of fluidic interfaces influenced by soluble surfactant

Funding: 2010-2014

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