Fluid Mechanics Group

Research

Fundamental Fluid Turbulence
Thermal Convection and Structure Formation
Magnetohydrodynamics
Machine Learning and Data-driven Models
Quantum Computing of Fluid Flows

Projects

ERC Advanced Grant MesoComp (2023-2027)
Carl Zeiss Foundation - PollenNet (2024-2029)
Carl Zeiss Foundation - Ilmenau School on Green Electronics (2024-2027)
DFG - Non-Boussinesq convection (2021-2025)
DFG-PP 2410 CoScaRa - Dissipative Anomaly in Compressible Turbulence (2024-2026)
DFG - Liquid metal flow control (2025-2027)

FG Strömungsmechanik

Teaching

Fluid Mechanics 1 + 2

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Mathematical Methods for Engineers

Magnetofluiddynamics

Quantum Computing for Engineers

Publications

Selected papers (see also Google Scholar):
S. Alam, D. Krasnov, A. Pandey, J. Panickacheril John, R. J. Samuel, P. P. Vieweg and J. Schumacher, Turbulent mesoscale convection in the Boussinesq limit and beyond, Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow 115, 109856 (2025)
J. Schumacher and K. R. Sreenivasan, Colloquium: Unusual dynamics of convection in the Sun, Rev. Mod. Phys. 92, 041001 (2020)
A. Pandey, J. D. Scheel and J. Schumacher, Turbulent superstructures in Rayleigh-Benard convection, Nature Commun. 9, 2118 (2018)
J. Schumacher, J. D. Scheel, D. Krasnov, D. A. Donzis, V. Yakhot and K. R. Sreenivasan, Small-scale universality in fluid turbulence, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 111, 10961 (2014)
F. Chillà and J. Schumacher, New perspectives in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection, Eur. J. Phys. E 35, 58 (2012)
O. Pauluis and J. Schumacher, Self-aggregation of clouds in conditionally unstable moist convection, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 108, 12623 (2011)

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