Wolfgang Polifke
Technische Universität München, ABB Corporate Research, City University of New York, University of Colorado, Universität Regensburg
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About
Dr Wolfgang Polifke studied Physics at the Universität Regensburg, the University of Colorado in Boulder and the City College of the City University of New York. After completion of his Ph.D. thesis on “Aspects of Helicity in Turbulent Flows” in 1990, he joined ABB’s Corporate Research Center in Switzerland, where he worked predominantly on fundamental aspects of gas turbine combustion technology.
Since 1999 he has been professor for Thermofluiddynamics at the Technische Universität München. Research activities past and present include analysis and modelling of thermo-acoustic combustion instabilities; aero-acoustics; data-based reduced order models, in particular supervised learning; development and validation of models of turbulent reacting flows; population balances in multi-phase flows; adsorptive hydrogen storage; reduction of detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms.
Employment
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Technische Universität München Professor1999 - Present
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ABB Corporate Research Group Leader "Fundamentals of Combustion Technology"1998 - 1999
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ABB Corporate Research Project leader1994 - 1998
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ABB Corporate Research Researcher1990 - 1994
Education
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City University of New York Ph.D.1985 - 1990
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University of Colorado1983 - 1984
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Universität Regensburg1981 - 1985
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (634)
- Large Eddy Simulation of Premixed Hydrogen Flame Flashback Including Conjugate Heat Transfer and Soret Effect Save
- Bayesian inference of flame impulse responses Save
- Flame thickening and its consequences for the thermoacoustics of premixed flames Save
- Amplification of perturbations in a laminar premixed swirl flame with the resolvent analysis Save
- Couplings in a non-uniform compressible swirling jet with a modelled swirler Save
- Thermoacoustic feedback mechanisms for premixed burners with a reacting hydrogen-methane jet in cross-flow Save
- Amplification of thermoacoustic flame response to investigate high frequency combustion instabilities with LES Save
- A Jacobian-based framework for the derivation of comprehensive thermoacoustic jump conditions Save
- An Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian framework for the consistent analysis of entropy wave generation Save
- A new class of Galerkin expansion models for the study of thermoacoustic instabilities Save