Research

Schott Glass Company, Mainz, Germany

• inverse problems in high precision glass pressing,
• instabilities and bifurcations in glass tank flows,
• glass fiber drawing.
  

Oxford University, UK

• thin films and lubrication,
• surface tension flows,
• inverse problems in high precision glass pressing.

ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany 

• simulation of glass cooling with convection and radiation,
• optimization and parameter identification including radiation, e.g., estimation of the heat transfer coefficient across the contact area between the glass and the mold,
• remote spectral sensing, e.g., reconstructing the in-bulk temperature from the measurements of the surface temperature,
• finite point set method, i.e., a meshless method, for glass flow.

Cambridge University, UK 

• theoretical mathematical analysis of physical phenomena,
• Stokes flow,
• thin films and lubrication,
• surface tension flows,
• solidification, granular flows.

Industrial Mathematics Institute, Linz, Austria 

• inverse problems,
• computational continuum mechanics, numerical simulations,
• optimal process control,
• parameter identification and shape optimization.

TNO, The Netherlands 

• design of glass production equipment,
• numerical simulation of various glass production stages: melted glass tank, conveyor, glob forming, pressing.

Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands 

• glass particle sintering,
• glass pressing and blowing,
• glass flow in oven,
• heat transfer by radiation,
• laminar flames in glass combustion.