Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Rung

Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)
Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Ship Theory (M8)
Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 4 (C)
21073 Hamburg

Room: C5.013                       
Phone: +49 40 30601 6054
E-mail: thomas.rung(at)tuhh.de

Bio

Schooling in Bonn, Germany

1993
Dipl. Ing., Aeronautical Engineering, TU Berlin

2000  
Dr.-Ing., Mechanical Engineering, TU Berlin

1993 - 1994
Research Engineer, Thermofluids Section, Univ. of Manchester
Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)

1995 - 2000  
Research Engineer, Hermann-Föttinger-Institut, TU Berlin

2001 - 2005
Supervisor Aerodynamics and Thermodynamics, global Center-of-Competence,
Bombardier Transportation, Hennigsdorf, Germany

2005 - present
Hamburg Univ. of Technology, Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics
 

Major Areas of Interest & Expertise

Fluid Dynamics
Simulation of complex engineering flows using mesh- (FV, FD) and
particle-based (LBM, SPH) nethods
Simulation-based PDE-constraint Optimization
Ship hydrodynamics
Vehicle aerodynamics
Urban area simulations

Reduced-Order Modelling
High performance computing using (hybrids of) CPU, GPU and quantum computing
Eulerian and Lagrangian two-phase flow modelling
Industrial thermofluiddynamics

Aeroacoustics
Turbulence and its modelling

Publications