On Friday, 11 July 2025, outstanding research and final theses of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the TUM School of Engineering and Design were honored at a festive award ceremony. A total of six graduates received doctoral and study prizes for their excellent research achievements, donated by renowned partners from industry.
The Manfred Hirschvogel Preis was awarded to Dr.-Ing. Deniz Avni Bezgin for his dissertation “Toward Machine-learned Discretizations and Differentiable CFD for Compressible Two-phase Flows”. With the development of JAX-Fluids, he has made a decisive contribution at the interface of numerical fluid mechanics and machine learning. The automatically differentiable flow solver enables the integrated training of learning-based numerical methods to simulate complex one- and two-phase flows. Combining modern CFD methods with gradient information for end-to-end optimization is particularly innovative and thus a milestone for next-generation hybrid simulation methods.