Awards & Honors

2023

  • Lara De Broeck: ZONTA Prize of Zonta Club Darmstadt for the Master thesis „Noise suppression in boundary layer flows through optimized acoustic wall impedance“
  • Patrick Alter: ZARM Award of the ZARM of University Bremen, 3nd Place for the Master thesis: Stability of compressible boundary layer flows with acoustic wall impedance.
  • Dario Klingenberg: DLR PhD Prize for the PhD thesis “Development of novel Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes turbulence models based on Lie symmetry constraints”
  • Lara De Broeck: Peter Dornier-Stiftungspreis for the Master thesis „Noise suppression in boundary layer flows through optimized acoustic wall impedance“
  • Jahannes Heinrich Conrad: VDI Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Study of “Mechanical Engineering”
  • Jie Liu, Yongqi Wang, Martin Oberlack: Featured Article in Physics of Fluids (35, 116606, 2023) “Focusing of weakly nonlinear inertial waves by a verticallyoscillating annular forcing”

2022

2021

  • Alparslan Yalcin, Yasin Turkac, Martin Oberlack: Featured Article in Physics of Fluids (33, 054111, 2021) “On the temporal linear stability of the asymptotic suction boundary layer”
  • Simon Görtz: Odenwald Akademie-Prize for the Master thesis: Theory of sound generation in free shear flows.

2020

  • Julian Heß: Dr.-Klaus-Körper-Prize of the GAMM for the PhD thesis: A consistent debris flow model with intergranular friction and dynamic pore-fluid pressure
  • Yasin Turkac: Zeppelin Foundation Prize of Friedrichshafen City for the Master thesis: Three-dimensional Stability Analysis of an Asymptotic Suction Boundary Layer Flow
  • Dominik Dierkes, Alexei Cheviakov, Martin Oberlack: Editor’s Pick in Physics of Fluids(32, 053604, 2020)New similarity reductions and exact solutions for helically symmetric viscous flows

2019

  • Benjamin Deußen: ZARM Award of the ZARM of University Bremen, 2nd Place for the Master thesis: Statistical description of homogeneous helical turbulence
  • Markus Geisenhofer / Pascal Cabos: Athene-Best-Teaching Award of the Carlo and Karin Giersch-Foundation in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU Darmstadt

2018

  • Florian Kummer: Prize of the Adolf Messer Stiftung
  • Simon Görtz: MBDA Award of the MBDA Deutschland GmbH for the Bachelor thesis „Stability analysis of stratified shear flows using Lie-Symmetry methods“

2017

  • Laura Lukassen: Elected member of the GAMM-Juniors
  • Jan-Niklas Hau: Claudius Dornier Jr. Award for the PhD thesis “On the basic phenomena of acoustic wave generation and dynamics in compressible shear flows"

2016

  • Benedikt Klein: ZARM Award of the ZARM of University Bremen for the PhD thesis „A high-order Discontinuous Galerkin solver for incompressible and low-Mach number flows"
  • Martin Oberlack: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society „For pioneering the application of symmetry methods to study turbulence, combustion, stability theory, aerodynamic noise and turbulence modeling, and for deriving new conservation laws in fluid mechanics.“
  • Laura Lukassen: PhD Award of the Graduate School of Computational Engineering at TU Darmstadt for the PhD thesis „A colored-noise Fokker-Planck equation for non-Brownian particles in shear-induced diffusion“

2015

  • Andreas Zieleniewicz: Elected member of the GAMM-Juniors

2014

  • Thomas Utz: ZARM Award of the ZARM of University Bremen for the Master thesis „Validation of curved elements for incompressible, viscous flow problems“

2013

  • Dominik Griesel: ZARM Award of the ZARM of University Bremen for the Bachelor thesis „Viskose Operatoren für Discontinuous Galerkin Methoden im Kontext kompressibler Strömungen“
  • Florian Kummer: PhD Award of the Graduate School of Computational Engineering at TU Darmstadt for the PhD thesis „The BoSSS Discontinuous Galerkin solver for incompressible fluid dynamics and an extension to singular equations“
  • Florian Kummer: Elected member of the GAMM-Juniors
  • Martin Oberlack: e-teaching Award of the TU Darmstadt for the innovative development of electronic media in teaching
  • Andreas Zieleniewicz/Martin Oberlack: Athene-Best-Teaching Award of the Carlo and Karin Giersch-Foundation in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU Darmstadt

2012

  • Benedikt Klein: ZARM Award of the ZARM of University Bremen for the Master thesis „Implementation of the SIMPLE algorithm for solving the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations discretized by the discontinuous Galerkin method“

2010

  • Andreas Nold: DGLR Award for the Bachelor thesis “Symmetry Analysis in Hydrodynamic Stability Theory”
  • Andreas Nold: ZARM Award of the ZARM of University Bremen for the Bachelor thesis “Symmetry Analysis in Hydrodynamic Stability Theory”

2000

  • Martin Oberlack: Friedrich-Wilhelm Award of the Aachen University of Technology (RWTH Aachen) for the Habilitation thesis
  • Martin Oberlack: Hermann-Reissner-Award of the Dept. of Aero- and Astronautics of the University of Stuttgart for the Contributions in Turbulence Research
  • Martin Oberlack: Academy Award 2000 of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences for the Habilitation thesis (Karl-Arnold-Award)