German Research Foundation (DFG) Establishes New Priority Program at TU Dortmund University

The goal of the new Priority Program is to examine the scientific principles of a particularly topical field of research: “Efficient Cooling, Lubrication and Transportation – Coupled Mechanical and Fluid-Dynamical Simulation Methods for Efficient Production Processes”, in short FLUSIMPRO. The name mirrors the program’s overall theme. In the coming weeks, the German Research Foundation will invite interested researchers nationwide to submit suitable sub-projects.

In terms of content, the program asks which role liquids play in a variety of production processes. Because the operating points of fluids in production processes are often difficult to access and – as a consequence – it is not possible to observe complex fluid-structure interaction directly, the program aims to model and simulate these processes. In so doing, researchers will gain fundamental insights and build on them to optimize parameters, for example minimization of fluid quantities or targeted feed.

Alongside Professor Dirk Biermann, Institute of Machining Technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of TU Dortmund University, and Professor Stefan Turek, expert in the field of numerical flow simulation at the Faculty of Mathematics of TU Dortmund University, further eminent scientists are members of the program’s steering committee: Professor Wolfgang Schröder from RWTH Aachen University, Professor Udo Fritsching from the University of Bremen and Professor Peter Eberhard from the University of Stuttgart.