Overview of research projects
| Section A: Structure cooling - Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weigand | |||
| Project | Title | Research area | Principal investigator(s), institute(s), location(s) |
| A1 | Multiscale techniques for the simulation of coolant flow through porous media | Numerical mathematics | Dahmen / Müller, RWTH-IGPM |
| A2 | Film cooling in rocket nozzles | Fluid dynamics, gas dynamics | Olivier, RWTH-SWL |
| A3 | Heat transfer in pulsating flow and its impact on temperature distribution and damping performance of resonators | Fluid dynamics, conjugate heat transfer, acoustics | Polifke, TUM-TFD |
| A4 | Numerical simulation of film cooling in supersonic flow | Fluid dynamics, supersonic flow, boundary layers and heat transfer | Kloker, US-IAG |
| A5 | Innovative cooling of rocket combustion chambers | Thermodynamics, cooling, structural mechanics | Böhrk, DLR-BT , von Wolfersdorf, US-ITLR |
| Section B: Heckströmungen - Prof. Dr. Rolf Radespiel | |||
| Project | Title | Research area | Principal investigator(s), institute(s), location(s) |
| B1 | Experimental analysis of the interaction phenomena between hot nozzle flow and transonic external flow | Aerothermodynamics, gas dynamics, flow control | Gülhan, DLR-IAS |
| B3 | Numerical analysis of controlled turbulent wake flow | Computational fluid dynamics, mechanical engineering | Schröder, Meinke, RWTH-AIA |
| B4 | Experimental method for the characterization of base flows with propulsive jet | Aerodynamics, measurement technology | Radespiel / Scholz, TUBS-ISM |
| B5 | Numerical characterization of hot nozzle wall impact on launch vehicle base flows | Computational fluid dynamics, aerothermodynamics | Eggers / Hannemann, K. /Hannemann, V., DLR-IAS |
| B6 | Characterization and control of the interaction between the afterbody flow and a 2D generic dual bell nozzle in both partial and full blowing conditions | Fluid mechanics | Kähler, UBWM-ISA |
| Section C: Brennkammer - Prof. Dr. Thomas Sattelmayer | |||
| Project | Title | Research area | Principal investigator(s), institute(s), location(s) |
| C1 | Modelling injection, mixing and combustion in rocket engines under real-gas conditions | Computational fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, combustion | Stemmer, TUM-AER / Pfitzner, UBWM-ITD |
| C3 | Thermofluiddynamic instabilities in rocket engines | Combustion instabilities, thermodynamics, acoustics | Sattelmayer, TUM-TD |
| C4 | Experimental and numerical investigations of phase transitions processes in the transcritical region | Aerospace engineering, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, numerics | Weigand / Lamanna, US-ITLR / Munz, US-IAG |
| C6 | Modelling of heat transfer in combustion-chamber boundary layers | Computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, combustion | Pfitzner, UBWM-ITD / Stemmer, TUM-AER |
| C7 | Interaction of acoustics and combustion in rocket combustion chambers | Combustion instabilities, liquid propellant rocket engine, acoustic resonance, thermodynamics | Oschwald, DLR-IRA |
| Section D: Schubdüse - Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schröder | |||
| Project | Title | Research area | Principal investigator(s), institute(s), location(s) |
| D2 | Mechanical integrity of thermal barrier coatings – coating development and micromechanics | Thermodynamics, materials engineering | Rösler, Bäker, TUBS-IfW |
| D3 | Lifetime prediction of nozzle structures under streaming conditions | Solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, fluidstructure interaction, finite element modeling | Reese, RWTH-IFAM / Haupt, TUBS-IFL |
| D4 | Thermal fluid-structure interaction in nozzle cooling channels | Fluid-structure interaction, computational fluid dynamics | Adams, TUM-AER |
| D6 | Experimental investigations on fluidstructure interaction using generic configurations | Aerothermodynamics, fluid-structure interaction | Gülhan / Esser, DLR-IAS |
| D9 | Experimental investigations for life time prediction | Fluid dynamics, structural mechanics | Haupt, TUBS-IFL / Haidn, TUM-LFA |
| D10 | Simulation technologies for thermal buckling in aerothermodynamically loaded thin-walled structures | Solid mechanics, fluid structure interaction, finite element modeling | Reese, RWTH-IFAM |
| Section K: Schubkammer - Prof. Dr. Oskar Haidn | |||
| Project | Title | Research area | Principal investigator(s), institute(s), location(s) |
| C5 | Sub- and supercritical simulation of rocket combustors with assumed and transported pdf methods | Numerical combustion simulation | Gerlinger, US-IVLR |
| K1 | Experimental and numerical investigation of combustion and heat transfer in thrust chambers | Thermofluidmechanics, experimental combustion, combustion modeling | Haidn, TUM-RFA |
| K2 | Experimental and numerical investigation of dual bell nozzle flow under realistic flight conditions | Fluid dynamics, nozzle flow | Génin / Stark, DLR-IRA |
| K4 | Definition and evaluation of advanced rocket thrust chamber demonstrator concepts | Numerical simulation of rocket thrust chamber flows, heat transfer, cooling, layout of advanced concepts and demonstrators | Knab, Riedmann, ArianeGroup |
| Section Z: Zentrale Aufgaben | |||
| Project | Title | Research area | Principal investigator(s), institute(s), location(s) |
| Z | Central tasks | Central tasks | Adams, TUM-AER |