GRK 1554:  Micro-Macro Interactions of Structured Media and Particle Systems

• Subject Area: Materials Science ; Mechanics and Constructive Mechanical Engineering ; Process Engineering, Technical Chemistry ; Materials Engineering
• Term: from 2010 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 83477795

The computational investigation of the relation between microscopic and macroscopic behaviour of materials with a micro structure has become an important tool in engineering. Out of a large number of applications of this approach we have chosen two areas: (1) solid metals with micro structures such as textures, phases, voids, inclusions etc., (2) systems of solid particles in fluid flow or in other interaction with fluid phases.
In both areas we plan to study problems that have different characteristic properties on two differing scales. In the metallic solids these are materials with microstructures such as grains, voids, inclusions, phases, cracks etc. In particle agglomerates these are particles with substructures and pore networks that contain and interact with fluids, as is the case in mechanical dehydration of suspensions, particle formation in fluidised beds, thermal drying of particle systems etc.
On the micro scale we usually have more physical insight than on the macroscopic scale. Therefore, we will use numerical simulations on this scale to provide information that we need on the macroscopic scale of engineering applications. On the latter, one works with averaged quantities. These are determined through homogenisations that have to be tailored to the specific problem. For the technical applications we have to develop models on the macroscopic scale that can be used in the simulation and design of practical industrial processes.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr.-Ing. Holm Altenbach; Professorin Dr.-Ing. Manja Krüger; Professor Dr.-Ing. Konstantin Naumenko; Professor Dr.-Ing. Eckehard Specht; Professor Dr. Dominique Thévenin; Professor Dr. Lutz Tobiska; Professor Dr.-Ing. Evangelos Tsotsas
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Gerald Warnecke, since 12/2016