The research of our group at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in the Laboratory for Fluid Physics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity (LFPB) focusses on the nature of turbulent flows, in particular, the physics of turbulent
thermal convection. This includes the investigation of natural, forced and
mixed convection; coherent flow structures, boundary layer structures,
scalings of the heat and momentum transport in different configurations,
small-scale turbulence in buoyancy-driven flows; the influence of rotation,
non-Oberbeck–Boussinesq effects, non-monotonic fluid properties, wall
roughness and domain geometry on turbulent convection. Apart from the
physics of turbulence itself, we are also interested in the numerical
issues and aspects of turbulence simulations.
Research interests
in natural and applied sciences and engineering include in particular
the large-scale oceanic circulation, wind chill effects in hot and cold
regions, supergranulation in the solar upper convective zone, heat
and mass transfer in nanofluids, surface-tension-driven convection
and vibration-induced convection in low gravity, improvement of the
efficiency of technological heating and cooling processes, control of
ventilation processes in living quarters and in transport.
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