Fluid Mechanics Research at DTU
Jens Nørkær Sørensen
Section of Fluid Mechanics
DTU Wind Energy
Fluid Mechanics research at DTU: Where?
DTU Mechanical Engineering
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Fluid Mechanics, Coastal and Maritime Engineering
Thermal Energy Systems
Manufacturing Engineering
DTU Physics
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Biophysics and Complex systems
DTU Wind Energy
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Fluid Mechanics Section
DTU Chemical Engineering
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CHEC Research Centre
Polymer Technology
DTU Mathematics
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Dynamical Systems
DTU Nanotech
• Micro- and Nanofluidics
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Section of Fluid Mechanics, Coastal and Maritime Engng
• Computational Fluid Mechanics
• Experimental Fluid Mechanics
• Bio-Fluid Mechanics
• Industrial Flows
• Micro-/Nano-Fluidics
On-going projects
• Measurements and simulation of model of scavenging flow
in two-stroke Diesel engine
• Spray dryers
• Electrostatic precipitation, mixing
• Flow of granular media
• Bridge aerodynamics
• Thermophoresis of water inside carbon nanotubes
• Coaxial carbon nanotubes – a linear motor
• Forces on flapping foil
• Hydrodynamics of marine animals
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Thermal Energy Systems
• Combustion Engines
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering
• Computational Fluid Mechanics
• Modeling of material and process characteristics
Department of Wind Energy
Section of Fluid Mechanics
• Computational Fluid Mechanics
• Experimental Fluid Mechanics
• Fluid-Structure Interaction
• Wakes and Wind Farms
• Aerodynamics
• Aero-Acoustics
• Offshore Wind/Waves
Wind Turbine Aerodynamics
Some on-going projects:
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Center for Wind Turbine Aerodynamics and Atmospheric Turbulence
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Program for Research in Aeroelasticity (EFP, with Risø)
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Noise from Wind Turbines (Research Council)
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Power and Noise Optimization of Wind Turbines (EFP)
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Design and optimization of wing tips (EUDP)
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Database on Wind Power (IEA)
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Simulation of ’Shadow’ Effects in Wind Farms (PSO)
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Simulation of Wakes behind Wind Turbines (EFP)
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Topfarm: Topology optimization of wind farms (EU)
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Analysis of Vortex Generators (Danish Research Council)
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Rotor Blade with Flaps for Reducing Oscillating Loads (with Risø)
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Experiments on Rotor in Wind Tunnel (EU)
Department of Physics
Biophysics and Complex systems
• Forces on Flapping Foil
• Mechanism for translocation of
sugars in plants
• Polygon formation and surface flow
on a rotating fluid surface
Department of Nano and Microtechnology
Micro- and Nano-fluidics
• Osmosis, membranes and flows in plants
• Micro-PIV measurements in micro-channels
• Flows in Microfluidic Bio-reactors
• Nanoflow hydrodynamics
• Acoustofluidics
Department of Mathematics
Dynamical Systems
• Topological Fluid Dynamics
• Vortex Breakdown
Department of Chemical Engineering
CHEC (Combustion and Harmful Emission Control) Centre
• Combustion and harmful emission control
• Chemical product and process design
• Fluid Dynamics in Chemically Reacting Systems
Department of Chemical Engineering
Polymer Technology
• Molecular rheology of complex fluids
• Mechanism of hole formation in thin polymeric films
• Micro-fluidics
Fluid•DTU
DTU Mechanical
Engineering
Date,
Time
Bldg Room
Feb 8
Henrik Bruus
DTU Nanotech
Mar 8
Johan Rønby
DTU Mathematics/Fluid•DTU
Bruno Eckhardt
Philipps-University Marburg
Jan C.T. Eijkel
Twente University
Kåre Hartvig Jensen
DTU Nanotech/Fluid•DTU
Mar 9
Mar 10
DTU Physics
DTU Wind Energy
DTU Mathematics
DTU Nanotech
Speakers and
Affiliations
Mar 11
Mar 22
Hans Ulrik Riisgård
University of Southern Denmark
April 8 André W. Visser
DTU Aqua
April 15 Ilya Simanovskii
Technion
May 3
Jesper Schmidt Hansen
Roskilde University
May 17 Henrik Bredmose
DTU Mechanical Engineering
30 Aug John Bush
MIT
07 Sep Billy Todd
Swinburne University of
Technology
14 Sep John Bush
MIT
20 Sep Houshuo Jiang
Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
27 Sep Misha Marie Gregersen
DTU Mathematics
15 Dec David Fabre
Université de Toulouse
16 Dec
Jérôme Mougel
Université Toulouse
Titles or Topics
Blood, plants, ultrasound, electrokinetics,
and nanochannels: Some microfluidic
impressions from my sabbatical in the US
Chaos and Integrability in Ideal Body-Fluid
Interactions (PhD defense)
Reversible and irreversible dissipative
particle motion
Micro- and nanofluidic research in the
BIOS/Lab on a Chip group
Osmotically driven flows in microfluidic
channels and their relation to sugar
transport in plants (PhD defense)
Living filters in the sea - about animals in a
thin soup of plankton algae
Small, wet and rational: Individual based
zooplankton ecology (Doctorate defense)
Different Types of Convective Oscillations in
Multilayer Systems
From micro to nano: Molecular dynamics and
computational nanofluidics
Violent breaking wave impacts. Scale effects
from air
Biocapillarity
Accurate prediction of fluid slip and the
implications of non-local viscous transport
for nanofluids
Quantum capillarity: droplets walking on the
impossible pilot wave
The fluid dynamics of jumping in zooplankton
Topology optimization in automotive
development
Path instabilities of objects in free movement
within a viscous fluid : a global stability
approach
Sloshing modes and singular inertial modes
in Newton's bucket
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