Project Details
Projekt
EXC 259: Smart Interfaces - Understanding and Designing Fluid Boundaries
Subject Area
Fluid Mechanics, Technical Thermodynamics and Thermal Energy Engineering
Process Engineering, Technical Chemistry
Process Engineering, Technical Chemistry
Term
from 2007 to 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 39072147
This cluster of excellence focuses on phase interfaces, at which fluidic phases (gas and/or liquid) interact with a solid surface. "Smart Interfaces" refers to fluid-solid boundary interfaces that have been designed or built for achieving a specific purpose, such as enhancement or controllability of mass, momentum or heat transfer. The major research goals of this cluster of excellence encompass the understanding, design, development and application of Smart Interfaces, while integrating rapid advances in a variety of disciplines in the physical and engineering sciences.
Five interrelated research areas will be established, in which high potential for innovation and promise for technology transfer to industrial applications can be recognised: "Static and Dynamic Wettability", "Heat Transfer Enhancement", "Near-wall Reactive Flows", "Near-wall Multiphase Flows" and "Drag and Circulation Control". The existing expertise of the 24 principle investigators in these areas will be complemented by eight new professorial appointments, one of which will be financed external to the cluster of excellence.
A primary objective of the organisational structure of the cluster of excellence is to establish an international focal point for interdisciplinary research related to fluid-solid interface design and application in the physical and engineering sciences. The Cluster will also act as a centre for knowledge transfer to industry and, furthermore, serve as an incubator for emerging technologies, in which fluid interfaces and complex interfacial transport phenomena play a central role. These objectives will be achieved within the framework of the "Center of Smart Interfaces", a proposed research entity within the university, in which the principal investigators and newly hired faculty will interact with one another. The Center will organise and sponsor an ambitious programme of coordinated interdisciplinary research programmes, scientific exchanges and educational activities.
Five interrelated research areas will be established, in which high potential for innovation and promise for technology transfer to industrial applications can be recognised: "Static and Dynamic Wettability", "Heat Transfer Enhancement", "Near-wall Reactive Flows", "Near-wall Multiphase Flows" and "Drag and Circulation Control". The existing expertise of the 24 principle investigators in these areas will be complemented by eight new professorial appointments, one of which will be financed external to the cluster of excellence.
A primary objective of the organisational structure of the cluster of excellence is to establish an international focal point for interdisciplinary research related to fluid-solid interface design and application in the physical and engineering sciences. The Cluster will also act as a centre for knowledge transfer to industry and, furthermore, serve as an incubator for emerging technologies, in which fluid interfaces and complex interfacial transport phenomena play a central role. These objectives will be achieved within the framework of the "Center of Smart Interfaces", a proposed research entity within the university, in which the principal investigators and newly hired faculty will interact with one another. The Center will organise and sponsor an ambitious programme of coordinated interdisciplinary research programmes, scientific exchanges and educational activities.
DFG Programme
Clusters of Excellence
Applicant Institution
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Participating Institution
Fraunhofer-Institut für Betriebsfestigkeit
und Systemzuverlässigkeit LBF
Bereich Kunststoffe; Fraunhofer-Institut für Betriebsfestigkeit und Systemzuverlässigkeit (LBF); Fraunhofer-Institut für Mikrotechnik und Mikrosysteme IMM; Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung
und Systemzuverlässigkeit LBF
Bereich Kunststoffe; Fraunhofer-Institut für Betriebsfestigkeit und Systemzuverlässigkeit (LBF); Fraunhofer-Institut für Mikrotechnik und Mikrosysteme IMM; Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard Abele; Dr. Michael Baßler; Professor Dr. Markus Biesalski; Professor Dr. Hans-Jürgen Butt; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Elsäßer; Professor Dr. Reinhard Farwig; Professorin Dr.-Ing. Bettina Frohnapfel; Professorin Dr. Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman; Professor Dr.-Ing. Manfred J. Hampe; Professor Dr. Matthias Hieber; Professor Dr. Wolfram Jaegermann; Professor Dr.-Ing. Suad Jakirlic; Professor Dr.-Ing. Johannes Janicka; Professor Dr. Jens Lang; Professor Dr. Florian Müller-Plathe; Professor Dr.-Ing. Martin Oberlack; Professor Dr. Matthias Rehahn; Professor Dr.-Ing. Ilia Roisman; Professor Dr. Amsini Sadiki; Professor Dr. Michael Schäfer; Professor Dr. Stefan Ulbrich; Professor Dr. Michael Vogel
