Norbert Weber

Norbert Weber is a Researcher at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Institute of Fluid Dynamics. Contact: norbert.weber@hzdr.de, +49 351 260 3112. Address: Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden.

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering (2016), Technische Universität Dresden
• Research focus: Fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and electrochemical energy storage

Research Interests

• Fluid Dynamics: Thermo-solutal convection, Marangoni convection
• Magnetohydrodynamics: Tayler instability, metal pad roll instability, electro-vortex flow
• Electrochemical Energy Storage: Fuel cells, liquid metal batteries, molten salt batteries
• Numerical Simulation: Fluid dynamics, electrodynamics, mass/heat transfer
• OpenFOAM: VOF, multi-region modeling, multiphysics

Scientific Awards & Projects

• Principal Investigator for DFG project on liquid metal battery modeling
• Coordinator of EU project SOLSTICE

International Experience

• 2019 - Visiting researcher at CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
• 2018 - Visiting researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• 2016 - Visiting researcher at LIMSI, Paris, France
• 2010-2011 - Master thesis at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• 2008-2009 - Erasmus exchange at University Bordeaux 1, France