Dr.-Ing. Matthias Meinke
Institute of Aerodynamics
RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, Germany
1979 - 1986 Study of Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University
1982 - 1983 Study at the Desert Research Institute of Nevada, USA
1986 Diploma Thesis “Computation of Viscid Flows”
1987 - 1988 Military Service
1988 - 1993 PhD Study at the Institute of Aerodynamics, RWTH Aachen University
1993 Dissertation: Numerical Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations for Unsteady Flows with a Multigrid Method
1993 - today Head of the CFD-Department of the Institute of Aerodynamics, RWTH Aachen University
1993 - today Lecturer at RWTH Aachen University: Master and Bachelor Courses in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Memberships and Honors
• Borchers Medal, RWTH Aachen University
• RWTH Aachen University Lecturer
• Member of AIAA, Euromech
Teaching activities at foreign Universities in CFD and Turbulence Modelling
• Korea University, Seoul, Korea
• Al-Farabi University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
• Thai-German Graduate School, Bangkok, ThailandResearch Fields
• Aerodynamics of aircrafts, rockets, wind turbines
• Turbulent Flows, drag reduction, transition
• Aeroacoustics of jets, fans, trailing edge
• Biomedical Flow in the human nasal cavity and lung
• Particulate Flow, particle deposition, particle-turbulence interaction
• Numerical Methods, hierarchical Cartesian meshes, immersed boundaries, level-set meth-ods, multiphysics simulations
• Development of a solver for the simulation of compressible flows, Lattice-Boltzmannmethod, parallelization and dynamic load balancing, automatic mesh generation, moving immersed boundaries
Review activities
• European Comission
• NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)
• ASME
• ISCFD
• European Conference on Turbomachinery
• Chinese International Turbomachinery Conference
• Computers & Fluids
• Combustion and Flame
Publications
• 171 Journal Articles
• 108 Conference Papers
• h-index: 39