Announcement of current Bachelor/Master theses, Advanced Design Projects (ADPs) and Advanced Research Projects (ARPs).
2024/11/05
Masterthesis
As part of the FlowForLife research project, a microfluidic supply network for 3D cell clusters is being developed. One aspect of the network design is the oxygen transport in the surrounding matrix. To characterize this, oxygen quenching luminescent particles are added to the surrounding matrix. The oxygen concentration can be determined at each particle.
From these sparse pointwise concentration data, the flow field in the porous surrounding matrix is to be determined. A solution of the convection-diffusion equation representing the measured concentration field must be found so that conservation of mass and momentum is satisfied in the underlying flow field. Physically-informed neural networks (PINNs) are a promising approach to find such a solution. In this thesis a PINN code should be developed and the achievable accuracy is to be evaluated. The following tasks could be part of the thesis:
Supervisor: Till Werner, M.Sc.
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Masterthesis
Extreme weather conditions are increasingly contributing to aircraft icing events, which pose significant safety risks. The analysis of this phenomenon has gained increased attention, particularly in the field of aviation safety.
Our new research aims to better understand the involved phenomena by analyzing moving surfaces and high relative impact velocities. This approach will closely simulate the real-world conditions that aircraft wings experience.
The project involves simulating a single water drop impact onto a moving substrate in order to replicate existing experimental data.
Supervisor: Reda Kamal, M.Sc.
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Advanced Design Project (ADP)
Within the research project FlowForLife, a microfluidic supply network for 3D cell clusters is being developed. Therefore, micro channels are studied with regard to their flow as well as the oxygen transport into the surrounding medium or tissue. The oxygen transport of enriched fluid into the surrounding hydrogel matrix will be measured using phosphorescent particles.
Supervisor: Till Werner, M.Sc.
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