AEM Seminar: Bubbly Turbulence
Detlef Lohse, Chair of Physics of Fluids, Department of Applied Physics, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
2:30 PM on 2019-04-26
3-230 Keller Hall
Abstract:
In this lecture I will give an overview on open questions in bubbly turbulence. I will also highlight some applications for which the understanding of bubbly turbulence is relevant, namely bubbly drag reduction, flotation, under water sound propagation, and chemical reactions in process technology.
Bio:
Detlef Lohse, born in Hamburg on 15 September 1963, is a German Professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. After his master’s thesis in theoretical nuclear physics in Bonn in 1989 and his PhD on the theory of fully developed turbulence in Marburg, Germany, in 1992, with Prof. Siegfried Großmann, he joined Prof. Leo Kadanoff as a postdoc in Chicago, where he continued to work on turbulence and started to work on sonoluminescence. In 1997, he returned to Marburg, where he got his Habilitation in 1997. After a short period as Heisenberg Fellow in Munich, Germany, in 1998 he was appointed Chair of Physics of Fluids at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, where he has been ever since.
Detlef Lohse works on a variety of aspects in the fundamentals and applications of fluid mechanics. The subjects include (i) turbulence and multiphase flow, (ii) micro- and nanofluidics, (iii) granular flow, and (iv) biomedical flow. Both experimental, theoretical, and numerical methods are used in his group.
He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Science Advanced, the Journal of Turbulence, JSTAT, and was Editor of several other journals in the past. He is serving and served in various national and international scientific boards, including the American Physical Society (APS), Division of Fluid Dynamics Executive Board, as Elected Member of the Euromech Council and as Chariman of the Euromech Board for the Euromech Turbulence Conference. He was also Member and Vice Chair of the Executive Board of FOM (Dutch NSF for Physics and related sciences, 2007-2015).
Detlef Lohse is Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics (2002), and of the Institute of Physics (IOP, 2004). He is elected Member of the German Academy of Science (Leopoldina, 2002), the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW, 2005), the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, External Member of the Max Planck Society (2015), Member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (AcTI, 2017) and Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE, 2017). In 2005, he received the Spinoza Prize of the Dutch Science Organization (NWO) for his fundamental work on thermal convection and sonoluminescence, and in 2009 the Simon-Stevin Prize from the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW) for his more applied work. He also received the Physics Prize from the Dutch Physics Organization (NNV, 2011), two European Research Council (ERC) Advanced grants (2011, 2017), the George K. Batchelor Prize for Fluid Dynamics (IUTAM, 2012), the AkzoNobel Prize (2012), a NWO-Zwaartekracht grant (2014), and the Fluid Dynamics Prize of the American Physical Society (2017). He also set up the first (and up to now only) Dutch Max Planck Center (2016, on Complex Fluid Dynamics) and is Honorary Chair of Fluid Mechanics and Engineering at Tsinghua University, Bejing, China (2016-2020). Lohse was knighted by the Dutch Queen (Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw, April 2010).