Univ. Prof. Habil. Dr. Rer.nat. Andreas LUDWIG

Univ. Prof. Habil. Dr. Rer.nat. Andreas LUDWIG

Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria, EU

1957 born in Hamm (Germany)
10/78 - 10/87 Study of physics at the University of Düsseldorf (Germany)
04/88 - 03/92 Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research Düsseldorf (Germany)
01/92 Dr. rer.nat. at RWTH Aachen (Germany)
04/92 - 03/93 Research assistant at the Foundry Institute at RWTH Aachen (Germany)
04/93 - 10/94 Scholar of the German Science Foundation at EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland)
11/94 - 12/02 Research group leader at the Foundry Institute at RWTH Aachen (Germany)
02/99 Habilitation on Material Physics at the RWTH Aachen (Germany)
01/03 - Date Full Professor at Montanuniversitaet Leoben (Austria)
07/04 -  06/11 Head of the Christian-Doppler Laboratory for Multiphase Modeling of Metallurgical Processes, Leoben (Austria)
01/08 - 12/12 Member of the Reviewing Committee for the Leoben’s K2-Center for Materials Engineering, Process Engineering and Product Development (MPPE)
01/08 - 06/17 Scientific area leader of the Leoben’s K2-Center for Materials Engineering, Process Engineering and Product Development (MPPE)
06/09 - Date Member of the Austrian Commitee of the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA)
10/14 - Date Board member of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) as deputy member for Engineering Technology

 

At the METAL'18 conference Prof. Ludwig will present the plenary lecture: "Simulation in Metallurgy: Past Achievements and Future Challenges".


Conference Chairman

  • 2nd Int. Conf. Sim & Modelling of Metallurgical Processes in Steelmaking (SteelSim2007) Graz, Sept. 12-14 2007
  • 2nd Int. Conf. Advances in Solidification Processes (ICASP-2) Graz, June 17-20 2008
  • 3rd Int. Conf. Sim & Modelling of Metallurgical Processes in Steelmaking (SteelSim2009) Leoben, Sept. 8-10 2009
  • 13th Int. Conf. Modeling of Casting, Welding and Advanced Solidification Processes (MCWASP2012) Schladming, June 17-22 2012
  • Int. Conf. Materials, Processing and Product Engineering (MPPE 2015), Leoben, Nov. 2-5 2015


Referee for Research Foundation

  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft
  • Czech Science Foundation


Referee for Ph.D. Thesis or Tenure Track Positions

  • RWTH Aachen and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany)
  • KTH Stockholm (Sweden)
  • EPFL Lausanne, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)
  • Aalto University, Aalto (Finland)
  • Université de Lorraine, Nancy and Aix-Marseille Université , Marseille (France)


Referee for International Journals


Research Interest

  • Solidification of Metals and Alloys
  • Multiphase Modeling of Transport Phenomena
  • Metallurgical Process Simulation
  • Interaction of Solidification Structures and Fluid Flow


Publications

 

Plenary lecture will be presented by his collaborator Dr. Jan Boháček.

CURRICULUM VITAE OF JAN BOHACEK:

Education:

  • Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Laboratory, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
    Doctoral degree - 2011 (Effect of flow parameters of water and air atomized sprays on cooling intensity of hot surfaces)
  • Victor Kaplan Dept. of Fluid Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
    Master’s degree – 2005 (Ejector type cooling nozzle)

 

Employment history:

since 2017 in Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Laboratory, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

 

Postdoctoral training:

since 2011 at Chair of Simulation and Modeling Metallurgical Processes, Montanuniversitaet Leoben

 

Fellowships:

  • in 2010 in SVS FEM s.r.o., Brno
  • in 2008 a member of CFD group under supervision of Dr. Tim Peeters in Tata Steel, Ijmuiden, the Netherlands

 

Volunteer referee tasks:

for Materials and Metallurgical Transactions and Transactions of the Foundry Research Institute

 

Publications: available on http://smmp.unileoben.ac.at/de/2706/

 

Interests:

  • CFD simulations in ANSYS Fluent, Palabos (LBM), MATLAB,
  • Free-surface flows coupled with heat transfer and solidification,
  • hyperbolic PDEs, shallow water equations, approximate Riemann solvers,
  • linear solvers on GPUs,
  • automation with Raspberry PI and Qt.

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