Third Party Funds Group - Sub project
Acronym: FIRST
Start date : 01.02.2010
End date : 31.12.2013
With this network, the universities of Bath, Eindhoven, Erlangen, Haifa
(Technion), Madrid (Complutense), Paris (Orsay), Rome (La Sapienza),
Zürich and the industrial partners EGIS and SIEMENS AG foster a joint
training platform for PhD-students working on analysis and control of
interfacial phenomena. Applications range from image processing over
reaction-diffusion systems to complex multi-phase flow.
FAU is
involved in three projects, guided by Proff. Grün, Knabner, and
Leugering. The first one is concerned with the effects electric fields
have on two-phase flow with electrolyte solutions. The goal is to derive
thermodynamically consistent diffuse-interface models for general mass
densities and ion distributions and to prove existence and regularity
of solutions.
The second one is a tandem project with Prof. Peletier
(TU Eindhoven) devoted to contaminant flow in porous media. There is
experimental evidence that attachment to colloids strongly enhances
contaminant transport. Derivation and analysis of appropriate
multi-scale models are in the focus of this project.
Prof.
Leugering's project -- jointly with Prof. Coron (University Pierre et
Marie Curie, Paris) -- is devoted to optimal control and stabilization
of flow of gas, water, and traffic in networked pipe- and road-systems.
It focusses on reachability and stabilizability properties under
constraints both in states and controls and on the derivation of
appropriate sensitivities for a numerical treatment of optimal controls
for systems of realistic size.