Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gunther Brenner

Professorship for Fluid Mechanics

Resume

• 1981 - 1987    Study of mechanical engineering - TH Karlsruhe
• 1988 - 1994    Scientific assistant at the German Aerospace Center in Göttingen
• 1994    Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) at the RWTH Aachen University
• 1994 - 1995    Stay abroad in Toulouse/France (CERFACS)
• 1996 - 2003    Head of Department "Computational Fluid Dynamics", Chair of Fluid Mechanics, University Erlangen-Nuremberg
• 2002    Habilitation at the Technical Faculty of the University of Erlangen
• since 2003    Professor for Fluid Mechanics at the TU Clausthal (ITM)

Awards and memberships

• 1994    Borchersplakette 1994, RWTH Aachen University
• 1996 - 1999    Member of the advisory board of INVENT Computing GmbH, Erlangen
• 2003- 2022    Member of the scientific advisory board of the "Norddeutsche Verbund für Hoch-und Höchstleistungsrechnen" (HLRN)
• Since 1999    Member of the scientific advisory board of conferences and journals, e.g. Parallel CFD, Int. Conf. Comp. Heat and Mass Transfer
• 2004- 2022    Member of ProcessNet, expert committee Computational Fluid Dynamics
• 2007- 2022    Member of VDEh, Working Group Fluid Mechanics and Flow Simulation
• since 2002    Member of the German University Association
• 2009- 2017    Member of the board of the Simulation Science Center (SWZ), TU Clausthal / Uni Göttingen
• 2015- 2021    Vice President for Studies and Teaching at the TU Clausthal
• since 2017    Member of the Board of Directors of the Research Center Drilling Simulator Celle (DSC), Chairman of the Board since 2020

Research

• Development of numerical methods for flow computation, in particular kinetic methods and lattice Boltzmann methods
• Research in the field of multiphase flows and flows in porous media
• Flows with cavitation due to acoustic fields
• Flows with imposed instationarity and flow instabilities
• Optical measurement methods, especially PIV
• Flows in tribology