Welcome to the Physics of Fluids group

A chair which belongs to the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Twente cooperating in the TechMed Research Institute and is part of the Max Planck - University of Twente Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics and the Twente Centre for Scientific Computing and the JM Burgers centre

Full-time		Part-time
	Prof. Dr. Detlef Lohse Chair holder		Assoc. Prof. Dr. Martin van der Hoef Numerical simulation of particulate two-phase flow
	Prof. Dr. Devaraj van der Meer Physics of granular matter and interstitial fluids		Prof. Dr. Ir. Chris de Korte Medical ultrasound imaging
	Prof. Dr. Jacco Snoeijer Capillary flows and elasticity		Prof. Dr. Marjolein van der Linden Fundamentals of inkjet printing
	Prof. Dr. Michel Versluis Physical and medical acoustics		Prof. Dr. Andrea Prosperetti Berkhoff professor
	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alvaro Marin Confined soft matter		Prof. Dr. Chao Sun Turbulence and multiphase flow
	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Richard Stevens Numerical simulations of turbulence		Prof. Dr. Roberto Verzicco Direct numerical simulations of turbulence
	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sander Huisman Multiphase flows		Prof. Dr. Xuehua Zhang Surface and colloidal science and engineering
	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dominik Krug Turbulence boundary layers and multiphase flow	Professors Emeriti
	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Corinna Maaß Active Soft Matter		Prof. Dr. Ir. Leen van Wijngaarden Multiphase flow, acoustics, gravity waves
	Assis. Prof. Dr. Guillaume Lajoinie Microscale flow, phase-change, and acoustics		Prof. Dr. Frits Dijksman Innovative biomedical applications of inkjet technology
	Dr. Christian Diddens Numerical simulation of multi-component droplets

The Physics of Fluids group is studying a wide variety of flow phenomena, both fundamental and applied, and we combine experimental, theoretical, and numerical methods to solve problems in fluid dynamics. The range of topics go from nanobubbles to accretion disks, from granular flow to medical flow, and from wind turbines to microfluidic chips. The problems we study generally get their complexity from phase transitions (boiling, cavitation, melting, dissolution), from particulate additions (particles, bubbles, droplets), from chemical additions (surfactants, pH), from gradients (salinity, thermal, velocity), from boundary conditions (pinning, (de)wetting, superhydrophobicity), or material properties (elasticity, plasticity). Complexity can also arise from very small scales or very high velocities, which can be solved by using the latest high-speed cameras, (confocal) microscopes, and high speed lasers, or by simulating the problems.

With over a 100 members in our group we cover a wide range of topics in our 16 labs and use high-performance computing facilities all over the world. The group receives external research funding from NWO, ERC, EU, and various companies.

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Welcome to the Physics of Fluids group

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