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Prof. Dr. Philipp Schlatter

Chair of Fluid Mechanics

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Cauerstraße 4 91058 Erlangen
Room: 01.223, Floor: 01
Overview

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Philipp Schlatter (from Zürich, Switzerland) obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) in 2001, and a PhD in Fluid Mechanics at the Institute of Fluid Dynamics (IFD) from ETH in 2005. He then moved to the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, first as a Postdoc, from 2007-2010 as an assistant professor, from 2010-2018 as associate professor, and from 2019 as full professor at KTH, with special interest in large-scale simulations of turbulent flows, mainly in wall-bounded configurations. In 2014 he was chosen as a Wallenberg Academy Fellow (which was extended in 2018), a prestigious programme with 5+5 year funding. He was also the director of the Linné FLOW Centre at KTH Stockholm, leading the fluid-dynamics community in the Swedish e-Science Research Centre, and the Swedish National Allocation Committee. In 2023 he moved to the Institute of Fluid Mechanics (LSTM) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg. He is also adjunct professor at the University of Bologna. He is also Associate Editor of the International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow (IJHFF). The current research involves both large-scale simulations based on highly accurate spectral and spectral-element methods, but also close interaction to experimentalists in an effort to cross-validate simulation and experimental data.

Profile at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Profile at University of Bologna

Linked-in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipp-schlatter-30b3aa55/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pschlatt1

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/pschlatt.bsky.social

Github: https://github.com/pschlatt1

Publication list at Google Scholar (quite complete): Google Scholar

Publication list at CRIS - the Current Research Information System of FAU (incomplete):

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Aerodynamics

Title Aerodynamics
Short text AERO
Module frequency nur im Sommersemester
Semester hours per week 4

1. Parallelgruppe

Date and Time Start date - End date Cancellation date Lecturer(s) Comment Room
wöchentlich Tue, 10:15 - 11:45 14.04.2026 - 14.07.2026 26.05.2026
  • Prof. Dr. Philipp Schlatter
  • apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Becker
11906.01.040

Computational Fluid Dynamics II

Title Computational Fluid Dynamics II
Short text CFD II V
Module frequency nur im Sommersemester
Semester hours per week 2

1. Turbulent flows 2. Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) 3. Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS) 4. Large Eddy Simulation (LES) 5. High-Order Methods 6. Particulate and Multiphase Flows 7. Fluid-structure Interaction 8. Compressible Flows
The students - Know how to solve CFD problems in curvilinear grids - Understand the main properties of turbulent flows - Understand the strengths and weaknesses of widely used simulation models of turbulence - Select the appropriate model and boundary equations for a given application - Be able to perform turbulence and complex flows simulations with OpenFOAM - Work in team and write a report describing the results and significance of a simulation of turbulent flow

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Literature references: H. Ferziger, M. Peric, Numerische Strömungsmechanik, Spinger, 2008

Link to Campo

Date and Time Start date - End date Cancellation date Lecturer(s) Comment Room
wöchentlich Fri, 10:15 - 11:45 17.04.2026 - 17.07.2026 05.06.2026
01.05.2026
  • Dr.-Ing. Manuel Münsch
  • Prof. Dr. Philipp Schlatter
11501.00.156

Turbulence I

Title Turbulence I
Short text T I
Module frequency nur im Sommersemester
Semester hours per week 2

1. Parallelgruppe

Date and Time Start date - End date Cancellation date Lecturer(s) Comment Room
wöchentlich Wed, 14:15 - 15:45 15.04.2026 - 15.07.2026
  • Prof. Dr. Philipp Schlatter
  • Dr. Siavash Toosi
11501.00.155

Computational Fluid Dynamics II - Lab

Title Computational Fluid Dynamics II - Lab
Short text CFD II Lab
Module frequency nur im Sommersemester
Semester hours per week 2

1. Parallelgruppe

Date and Time Start date - End date Cancellation date Lecturer(s) Comment Room
wöchentlich Mon, 09:00 - 11:45 13.04.2026 - 13.07.2026 25.05.2026
  • Dr.-Ing. Manuel Münsch
  • Prof. Dr. Philipp Schlatter
11302.00.156

Aerodynamics - Exercise

Title Aerodynamics - Exercise
Short text AERO Ex
Module frequency nur im Sommersemester

1. Parallelgruppe

Date and Time Start date - End date Cancellation date Lecturer(s) Comment Room
wöchentlich Wed, 12:15 - 13:45 15.04.2026 - 15.07.2026
  • Prof. Dr. Philipp Schlatter
  • apl. Prof. Dr. Stefan Becker
11901.00.222

Computational Fluid Dynamics II - Exercise

Title Computational Fluid Dynamics II - Exercise
Short text CFD II Ex
Module frequency nur im Sommersemester
Semester hours per week 1

1. Parallelgruppe

Date and Time Start date - End date Cancellation date Lecturer(s) Comment Room
wöchentlich Tue, 12:15 - 13:45 14.04.2026 - 14.07.2026 26.05.2026
  • Prof. Dr. Philipp Schlatter
  • Dr.-Ing. Manuel Münsch
11901.00.240

Turbulence I - Exercise

Title Turbulence I - Exercise
Short text T Ex
Module frequency nur im Sommersemester
Semester hours per week 2

UE 2 SWS

Im Rahmen der Vorlesung werden praktisch einsetzbare Methoden zur Berechnung allgemeiner turbulenter Strömungen vorgestellt.

Ausgangspunkt sind die Navier-Stokes-Gleichungen, die formal hergeleitet und anschließend zeitgemittelt werden.

Die durch die Mittelung auftretenden Zusatzterme werden physikalisch interpretiert und gebräuchliche mathematische Modelle (Turbulenzmodelle) zur Beschreibung dieser Terme eingeführt.

Die Anwendung der vorgestellten Turbulenzmodelle auf für die Praxis relevante turbulente Strömungen, wie z.B. Grenzschichten, Freistrahlen etc. wird im Detail diskutiert.

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Date and Time Start date - End date Cancellation date Lecturer(s) Comment Room
wöchentlich Fri, 14:15 - 15:45 17.04.2026 - 17.07.2026 05.06.2026
01.05.2026
  • Prof. Dr. Philipp Schlatter
  • Dr. Siavash Toosi
12104.01.411

Recorded lectures:

Youtube videos:

Scientific Animations:

Selected Pictures:

Interactive pipe visualisation: https://zoomhub.net/rN9J9

Turbulent pipe flow at Re_tau=10000: Massaro et al. 2025

Vortical structures around a Flettner rotor (Reference Massaro et al., Sci. Rep. 2024):

Streamwise vorticity in a turbulent pipe flow at Ret=1000
Streamwise vorticity in a turbulent pipe flow at Reτ=1000 (Reference El Khoury et al. FTaC 2013):

Turbulent boundary layer
Turbulent boundary layer (Reference Schlatter and Örlü, JFM 2010):