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Study and Employment
Field of Research and Special Research interests
List of Publications and some newer Publications
Scientific CV (PDF)
September 2010 - March 2018: |
ANSYS Germany GmbH ANSYS Fluid Solver Validation Manager Staudenfeldweg 20 D-83624 Otterfing, Germany Internet: http://www.ansys.com |
  
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März 2003 - August 2010 : |
ANSYS Germany GmbH Head of Funded CFX Software Development Group Staudenfeldweg 12 D-83624 Otterfing, Germany Internet: http://www.ansys.com/products/cfx.asp |
 
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January 2003 - February 2003 : |
AEA Technology GmbH, CFX-Germany Computational Fluid Dynamics CFX Development Staudenfeldweg 12 D-83624 Otterfing, Germany Tel.: +49-8024-9054-776 Fax: +49-8024-9054-417 Email: Thomas.Frank@ansys.com Internet: http://www.ansys-germany.com |
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January 1996 - December 2002 : |
TUC - Chemnitz University of Technology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Process Technology Department of Technical Thermodynamics Head of the Research Group on Multiphase Flows / SFB-393, Project D2 Reichenhainer Str. 70, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany Email: DrTh.Frank@arcor.de |
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January 1992 - December 1995 : |
Research Group on Multiphase Flows Scientist Integration Program (WIP/HEP) Chemnitz, Germany |
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September 1986 - December 1991 : |
Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Science Department on Rheology and Multiphase Flows Karl-Marx-Stadt, G.D.R. |
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August 1981 - September 1986 : |
5 years study in Theoretical Mechanics / Fluid Mechanics at the Moscow State University "M.W. Lomonossow" Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics Moscow, USSR Internet: http://www.msu.ru/english/ |
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Verification & Validation (V&V) of all ANSYS CFD solvers : ANSYS CFX, ANSYS Fluent, AIM Fluids, FORTE, FENSAP-ICE, Polyflow, Discovery Live; Quality Assurance (QA) in CFD solver development
Fluid Mechanics
Mechanical Engineering and Process Technology
Numerical Simulation of Fluid and disperse Multiphase Flows (Eulerian two-phase flow modelling and Lagrangian particle tracking)
High Performance and Parallel / Cluster Computing
in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Development and implementation of advanced multiphase flow models in CFX-5.6 bis CFX-19.0; population balance models (MUSIG - multiple size group model);
Modeling and simulation of boiling flows from forced convection nucleate subcooled boiling up to flow regimes close to critical heat flux (CHF) conditions; Validation of multiphase flow models in reactor safety applications
Scale-Resolving Turbulence Model Simulations (SRS), Large Eddy Simulations as well as hybrid model simulations, e.g. SAS, SBES, DDES, LES
Investigation of effective parallelization of the Eulerian-Lagrangian
approache for numerical prediction of disperse multiphase flows on
MIMD parallel computing architectures - part of the
Collaborative Research Centre 393 (DFG-SFB 393/D2)
Cooperation with Prof. Dr. M. Peric from the Department of Ship Building
at the University Hamburg in the field of further development and extension
of the block-structured Navier-Stokes solver MISTRAL-2D/3D including
full multigrid solving scheme, parallelization and application
to disperse multiphase flows
Development of a fully parallelized Lagrange- / PSI-Cell-Solver for
numerical simulation of disperse multiphase flows (gas-particle flows)
in complex 2- and 3-dimensional geometries by application of a
dynamic domain decomposition (DDD) method with optimized load balancing
Investigation of disperse multiphase flows with strong phase
interation (phase coupling) due to the exchange of mass, momentum and
energy between phases
Development of non-steady Eulerian-Lagrangian approach for numerical
prediction of unsteady particle laden fluid flows in complex 3d geometries.
Parallelization for the simultanous particle tracking algorithm with synchronized
Eulerian and Lagrangian time steps.
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