Current research interests are :

  • Planetary boundary layers, environmental flows, fluid mechanics.
  • Turbulent mixing, shear- and buoyancy-driven flows, latent heat effects, entrainment, cloud mixing.
  • Computational fluid dynamics, numerical methods, high-performance computing. 

Current funded projects:

  • DFG priority programme 1881 Turbulent Superstructures: Convection Cells in the Planetary Boundary Layer: Origin and Reduced Modeling. Opens external link in current window
  • Max Planck Research Group: Turbulent Mixing Processes in the Earth System. [more]
  • NIC project HHH07 at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre: Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Mixing in the Planetary Boundary Layer.

Previous funded projects:

  • DFG priority programme 1276 Metstroem: Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Stratocumulus Clouds. Opens external link in current window