Main research areas

The Institute of Thermal Turbomachines conducts research in a wide variety of areas. Below you will find an overview of the current and past research focuses since 2020.

Aktuelle Forschungsschwerpunkte
Research focus	Contact	Research group
Multiscale numerical modeling and optimization of the effect of the cooling lubricant during gear skiving	Matthias Haber, M.Sc.	Air and Oil System Dr.-Ing. Corina Schwitzke
Adaptive sealing systems	James Lofts, M.Eng.	Air and Oil System Dr.-Ing. Corina Schwitzke
Optimization of the oil supply in engine storage chambers	Daniel Mateo Aguirre Bermudez, M.Sc.	Air and Oil System Dr.-Ing. Schwitzke
Atomization	Niklas Bürkle, M.Sc. und Markus Wicker, M.Sc.	Combustion and two phase flow Dr.-Ing. Rainer Koch
Spatial adaptivity in SPH	Niklas Bürkle M. Sc.	Combustion and two phase flow Dr.-Ing. Rainer Koch
Lean combustion chamber for aircraft engines	Sven Hoffmann, M. Sc.	Combustion and two phase flow Dr.-Ing. Rainer Koch
Coupling of SPH and FV	Markus Wicker, M.Sc.	Combustion and two phase flow Dr.-Ing. Rainer Koch
Cooling of turbine rotor blades	Dogan Bicat, M. Sc.	Heat transfer and cooling methods. Dr.-Ing. Jonas Schmid
Film cooling in gas turbines and aircraft engines	Marius Egner, M. Sc.	Heat transfer and cooling methods. Dr.-Ing. Jonas Schmid
Cooling of turbine platforms	Marco Hahn, M.Sc.	Heat transfer and cooling methods. Dr.-Ing. Jonas Schmid
Modeling Reactive Transport Phenomena in Gas-Liquid Contact Reactors with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics	Karthik Vigneshwaran Muthukumar, M.Sc.	Machine intelligence in energy systems Dr. Cihan Ates

Completed research focuses
	Research focus	Research group
	Brush seals	Air and Oil system
	Film cooling of blade sidewalls	Heat transfer and cooling methods. Dr.-Ing. Jonas Schmid
	Urea injection for NOx emission control	Combustion and two phase flow Dr.-Ing. Rainer Koch
	AI-supported investigation of the turbulence-granulate interaction	Machine intelligence in energy systems Dr. Cihan Ates
	Labyrinth seals	Air and Oil system
	Low-cycle fatigue phenomena on engine components	Heat transfer and cooling methods.
	Oil jet-gear interaction / injection cooling	Air and Oil System Dr.-Ing. Schwitzke
	Wall shear stress measurement using liquid crystal technology	Heat transfer and cooling methods.
	Vortex and gas-liquid interface dynamics in multiphase flows	Combustion and two phase flow Dr.-Ing. Rainer Koch
	Increased efficiency for centrifugal fans	Hydraulic turbomachinery Dr.-Ing. Balazs Pritz