Prof. Dr. Bettina Maria Frohnapfel, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
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Prof. Dr. Bettina Maria Frohnapfel

Nominated by

  • German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • AcademiaNet member since 17.05.2010
  • AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria


Employed by

  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Engineering, manufacturing and construction


Field

Engineering and engineering trades



Area of specialisation

Fluid mechanics



Research interests

  • Friction reduction in turbulent fluid flows (active and passive)

  • Controlling the laminar/turbulent transition

  • Controlling laminar flows

  • Flow control by means of surface structures

  • Flow control by means of long-chain polymers

  • Control of mixing

  • Turbulence modelling



Distinctions and Awards

  • Participated in the "ProProfessur" programme at Hessian universities, 2010 – 2011

  • Participated in the Robert Bosch Foundation's Fast Track programme, 2008 – 2010

  • Doctoral award from the Engineering Faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 2008

  • Postdoctoral fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2007 – 2008

  • Made the list of the top course modules in the Engineering Faculty, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, for my tutorials in fluid mechanics I and II (winter semester 2005/06, summer semester 2006, summer semester 2007), 2005 – 2007

  • Shell She-Study Award (3rd place) for undergraduate work, 2004

  • ZARM scholarship (2nd place) for Diplom thesis, 2004

  • Scholarship from the German parliament and US Congress for a one-year stay in the USA within the Parliamentary Mentoring Programme, 1995 – 1996



Languages

English, French, German, Spanish



Doctorate

  • 2007: Strömungskontrolle wandnaher Turbulenz ("Flow control of turbulence near walls")




Short CV/Education and training

  • 1998 – 2002
    Studied chemical engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

  • 2002 – 2003
    Diplom thesis undertaken at the Turbulence Research Lab, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

  • 2003 – 2007
    Lecturer in the Department of Fluid Mechanics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

  • 2007
    Doctorate

  • 2007 – 2008
    JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo, Japan

  • Since 2008
    Co-coordinator of the "Drag and Circulation Control" research section within the "Smart Interfaces" excellence cluster at Darmstadt University of Technology

  • 2010 – 2012
    Director of an Emmy Noether research group in the field of flow control

  • Since 2012
    Professor (W3), Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Selected publications

  • Frohnapfel, B., Hasegawa, Y., Quadrio, M. (2012): Money versus Time: Evaluation of Flow Control in Terms of Energy Consumption and Convenience. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 700: 406–418.

  • Jovanović, J., Frohnapfel, B., Srikantharajah, R., Jovanović, D., Lienhart, H., Delgado, A. (2011): Microflow-based control of near-wall fluctuations for large viscous drag reduction. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, DOI: 10.1007/s 10404–011–0842–1.

  • Frohnapfel, B., Hasegawa, Y., Kasagi, N.: Friction drag reduction through damping of the near-wall spanwise velocity component. In: Int. Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 31, 2010. S. 434–444.

  • Frohnapfel, B., Lammers, P., Jovanović, J., Durst, F. (2007): Interpretation of the mechanism associated with turbulent drag reduction in terms of anisotropy invariants, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 577: 457–466.

  • Ewing, D., Frohnapfel, B., George, W.K., Pedersen, J.M., Westerweel, J. (2007): Two-point similarity in the round jet, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 577: 309–330.


Selected projects

  • Director of an Emmy Noether research group in the field of flow control, since 2010

Membership in scientific bodies/juries

  • Associate Editor of ASME Applied Mechanics Review

Soft Skills/Other activities and achievements

Soft Skills

  • Presentation techniques, moderating


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