Successful Bachelor Thesis Defense of Anna Franziska Steffani

We proudly announce that Mrs. Anna Franziska Steffani has successfully defended her bachelor thesis on the topic "Numerical Investigation of Thermal Convection in Salt Melts Affected by Space-Variable Magnetic Fields and Electrically Conducting Side Walls." In her studies, she employed the CFD code ANSYS/FLUENT with the MHD module to simulate the coupled effects of the mutual electromagnetic and thermo fluiddynamic interactions on heat and mass transfer in molten salt. The numerical prediction of such highly multi-physical processes is needed for a better understanding of both thermal and electrochemical energy storage systems in which salt melts are used as storage and heat transfer fluids and as separation layers in liquid metal batteries. The thesis was scientifically embedded in a research project funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG. The thesis was supervised by our colleague Christian Karcher.

We wish Mrs. Steffani good success in her upcoming master's studies in Mechanical Engineering at TU Ilmenau, where she will further specialize in the field of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. A very good yet also challenging choice!