Multi-Scale Physics
Welcome to the Department of Multi-Scale Physics.
The Department of Multi-Scale Physics (MSP) is dealing with Industrial and Environmental Processes in the world around us. With a staff of 14 professors and some 35 postdocs and PhD students, MSP aims at a better understanding, a better description and - in industry - a better control of these processes. We think mankind should produce products and energy in a cleaner, more sustainable and more efficient way. MSP wishes to contribute to more sustainable industrial processes and a more sustainable earth.
MSP considers flow and transport phenomena over a wide range of time and length scales in their mutual dependence. We study the interaction of molecular transport of heat and mass, chemical reactions, turbulent eddies, bubbles, drops and particles, and flow and convective transport at the scale of the vessel or at a long range. Usually, we use continuum concepts for describing these phenomena and processes, sometimes (under rarefied conditions) molecular models.
To this end, MSP exploits a wide variety of advanced computational and experimental tools
Highlight of a MSP research example:
Clean heat a hot topic
Modifying burners to flameless combustion can drastically reduce the emissions of industrial furnaces. Research is ongoing, while industry cautiously innovates.
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Other research at MSP:
Bloodflow, TU flow , and the Riga dynamo by Dr. Sasa Kenjeres