Prof. Dr. Dan S. Henningson

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsFluid Mechanics
Keywordsturbulence transition, boundary layer, direct numerical simulations

Current contact address

CountrySweden
CityStockholm
InstitutionKTH Royal Institute of Technology
InstituteDepartment of Mechanics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ulrich RistInstitut für Aerodynamik und Gasdynamik (IAG), Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Bruno EckhardtFachbereich Physik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2011

Programme(s)

2010Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Dan Henningson from KTH (Royal Technical University) Stockholm, Sweden Professor Henningson is internationally recognized for his outstanding research on transition and turbulence, as well as flow control and flow design. Using and developing methods for direct numerical simulations of flows and for their stability analysis and control, he has contributed significantly to recent developments and the advancement of fluid dynamics. During his stay in Germany he intends to work on applying and extending ideas from non-linear dynamical systems to spatially developing boundary layers for characterizing the transition of turbulence (Marburg) and on the use of snapshot-based methods for stability and control investigations on complicated incompressible and compressible flow cases (Stuttgart). Professor Henningson is hosted by Professor Bruno Eckhardt at Philipps-Universität Marburg and by Professor Ulrich Rist at the Universität Stuttgart.