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Thermodynamics
Awards and Honors
Golden Teaching Award
Norbert Heublein won the Department of Mechanical
Engineering Golden Teaching Award in the category
‘Bachelor Exercises’ on behalf of the department’s
students as a recognition for his commitment and per
formance in teaching Thermodynamics I.
WATT-Master’s Thesis Award
The Scientific Working Group Technical Thermodynamics
(WATT) awarded Simon Tartsch a prize for his excellent
Master thesis ‘Aufbau eines optischen Schatten-Mess
systems und Durchführung von Verbrennungsuntersuch-
ungen’, which was supervised by Markus Grochowina.
The award was presented to him in the form of a certifi-
cate at the last Thermodynamics Colloquium in Dresden.
Part of the prize was participation at the colloquium,
where he presented his excellent work to the German
Thermodynamics Community.
ASME Turbo Expo Best Technical Paper Award
At TurboExpo 2017 Stefan Bauer, Balbina Hampel and
Thomas Sattelmayer received the Best Paper Award of
the ASME IGTI Microturbines, Turbochargers & Small
Turbomachinery (MTST) Committee for their 2016 paper:
‘Operability Limits of Tubular Injectors with Vortex Gener-
ators for a Hydrogen Fueled Recuperated 100Kw Class
Gas Turbine’.
ASME Turbo Expo Best Technical Paper Award
At TurboExpo 2017 Vera Hoferichter, Christoph Hirsch and
Thomas Sattelmayer received the Best Paper Award of
the ASME IGTI Combustion, Fuels and Emissions (CFE)
Committee for their 2016 paper: ‘Prediction of Confined
Flame Flashback Limits Using Boundary Layer Separation
Theory’.
ASME Dedicated Service Award
At Turbo Expo 2017 in Charlotte, Christoph Hirsch
received the ASME Dedicated Service Award, which
honors unusual dedicated voluntary service to the ASME
marked by outstanding performance, demonstrated
effective leadership, prolonged and committed service,
devotion, enthusiasm and faithfulness. The award is
presented to selected individuals who have served the
ASME for at least ten years.
2017 GPPS Innovation Award
Thomas Sattelmayer has been selected as the recipient of
the 2017 Global Power & Propulsion Society (GPPS) Inno-
vation Award. This annual award is given in recognition of
outstanding technical and professional contributions to
the gas turbine industry.
New Honorary Professor at
the Chair of Thermodynamics
Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kolb was appointed Honorary Profes-
sor at the Technical University of Munich. He is Director
of the Engineering Center Northern Europe of the Thermal
Europe Center of DENSO Corporation, Kariya, Japan.
Since winter term 03/04 he has been teaching the Master
course ‘Automotive Air Conditioning/Refrigeration Tech-
nology’ and the corresponding exercises. In addition to his
teaching activities, Dr. Kolb has supported research at the
TUM in many ways in the past.
Approach to Solution
The POD method is widely used to extract dominant
flow features from spatio-temporal flow observations. By
using only the most dominant features, or so-called POD
modes, a low dimensional model of the flow field can be
formulated. In this work, the POD is applied to the mixing
process in the HVAC unit to find a correlation between
input and output parameters, in terms of volume flow
rates and enthalpy flow rates, respectively. By coupling
the POD model with traditional modeling techniques, a
low dimensional description of the HVAC unit is obtained.
Key Results
The approach was applied and evaluated on a real HVAC
unit of a sport utility vehicle. A fluid resistance network
was established to calculate the volume flow rates at the
outlets. By combining the fluid resistance network with the
POD approach the outlet temperatures can be computed.
As a major outcome it could be shown that the accuracy
of the model is comparable to the measurement uncer-
tainty of the sensors (+/- 2K). Furthermore, the application
of the model for model-based control was demonstrated.