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One-day seminar honoring Prof. Dr. Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus included several talks from renowned speakers

Summary of 11th Darmstadt Engine Workshop on 21 October 2022

The 11th Darmstadt Engine Workshop (DEW 11) took place on 21 October 2022. In the spirit of the last Darmstadt engine workshops we continued to facilitate a closecollaboration and information exchange between the experimental and modelling efforts forIC engine flows and combustion.

Funding for the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 150 is Renewed

SFB TRR 150 funding was extended and begins its third phase.

The 3rd International Workshop on Near-Wall Reactive Flows was held on the occasion of the retirement of Professor Amsini Sadiki, to honour and celebrate …..

Professor Andreas Dreizler from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU Darmstadt has been accepted as a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. He heads the Institute of Reactive Flows and Diagnostics and is the spokesman of the Collaborative Research Center/Transregios 150 (“Turbulent, chemically reactive, multi-phase flows near walls”). Dreizler has received several awards for his research achievements, including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2014) and the Fritz and Margot Faudi Foundation Prize (2012). He has been a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering since last year, and also belongs to the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry and the Optical Society, among others. In total, the academy accepted six new members. Founded in 1949 on the initiative of Alfred Döblin, the non-university research institution and learned society is one of eight science academies in Germany. Its goals are the cultivation of science and literature as well as the preservation and promotion of culture. The Mainz Academy comprises three classes (mathematical and natural sciences, humanities and social sciences, and the class of literature and music), each with up to 50 full and 50 corresponding members.

Research in the field of dynamics of explosions and reactive systems honored

Dr.-Ing. Christina Straßacker from the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and member of the CRC/TRR 150 has received the John H. S. Lee Young Investigator Award at the 28th ICDERS, an prize which is awarded to encourage young scientists to undertake research in the dynamics of explosions and reactive systems.

Insights into Mechanical Engineering

On 28 June 2022, a group of schoolgirls from the Liebfrauenschule Bensheim were guests at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Professor Andreas Dreizler had invited the school's basic physics course to the TU Darmstadt. The background to this excursion was to provide insights into the job profile of an engineering scientist.

The Center of Excellence in Combustion celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly declared 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science in 2015. The Center of Excellence in Combustion celebrates this event and releases a video with statements from two of its most inspiring women researchers.

Work on numerical simulation and modelling of chemically reactive flows honoured

Dr.-Ing. Arne Scholtissek from the Institute for Simulation of reactive Thermo-Fluid Systems (STFS) has been awarded the Jürgen Warnatz Preis at the 30th “Deutscher Flammentag”. Scholtissek receives the Warnatz Preis in recognition of his outstanding work in the field of combustion, especially in the numerical simulation and modelling of chemically reactive flows.

Dr. Christina Straßacker (KIT) awarded for outstanding research work in the field of thermodynamics

Dr.-Ing. Christina Straßacker from the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics (ITT) in Karlsruhe received this year's MegaWATT Award.

Newly published

The role of combustion science and technology in low and zero impact energy transformation processes

For contributions in the simulation of multiphase flows, modeling of turbulent combustion processes and soot formation

Prize of Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation for KIT young researcher

Dr.-Ing. Marion Börnhorst, a senior scientist in the Deutschmann group at KIT, has been awarded this year's doctoral thesis award of the Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation. Her thesis is entitled “Urea-Water Sprays in NOx Emission Control Systems: Interaction with Solid Walls and Deposit Formation”.

3rd International Workshop on Near-Wall Reactive Flows

“Gender equality in research routine – how does it affect me?”

Members of the collaborative research centres 805, 1194, TRR 150 and TRR 270 had an intense panel discussion about gender equality issues and how they affect their every-day working lives.

8th Darmstadt Engine Workshop – 23rd October, 2020

A new Darmstadt Engine Workshop (DEW) will be held 8–23 October 2020. The DEW is an academic approach to improve the methods used to predict and investigate turbulent flows within the engine research and design process.

Fuels, processes, and combustion physics in the energy transformation

TRR 150 spokesperson professor Andreas Dreizler and Prof. Dr. Heinz Pitsch (RWTH Aachen) are organizing the 715. WE-Heraeus Seminar in Bad Honnef, Germany.

A two-day meeting in Milan, Italy

The institute STFS at TU Darmstadt and the ICE group of Politecnico di Milano co-organize the 4th two-day meeting on Internal Combustion Engine Simulations using OpenFOAM technology. The meeting will take place on 13–14 February 2020 in Milan.