Patrick Widera

Identification and Quantification of the Nonlinear Flow Characteristics of a Fleisch Pneumotachograph - Conducting parameterized numerical fluid simulations of a honeycomb flow meter. - Implementation of a multi-zone permeability model for accelerated calculations. - Investigation of manufacturing possibilities.

"Numerical Simulation and Surrogate-Based Optimization of Non-Circular Cylindrical Journal Bearings for Turbocharger Applications" - Physical modeling of fluid flow in non-circular cylindrical journal bearings. - Development of an automated design optimization process in Python, including geometry generation, meshing with SpaceClaim batch mode, CFD simulation, and training of the surrogate model. - Calculation of the Pareto front using the ε-constraint method.

Student Assistant in Statics, Elastostatics, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), and Dynamics.

e-NVH and dynamics

Noise & Vibration: Controlling the phasing phenomena of two identical gear boxes in back-to-back testrigs

Multibody simulation investigation: influence of plain bearing eccentricities in planetary stages on gear mesh frequencies

Student assistant for excercises in: mathematics statics elastostatics dynamics

Computational Engineering, Biomechanik

Schwerpunkt: Simulation