Our group has competences in multiphysics, particularly in fluid, thermal and acoustic simulations and delivers CFD services to industry. We have also access to state-of-the art CFD software, both commercial and open-source and HPC cluster with +380 cores.

1. The Institute of Energy Technology
Who we are and what we do
Prof. Dr. Henrik Nordborg
Institute for Energy Technology
Microsoft Innovation Center

2. Mission – R&D Partner for Energy Technology
 Know-how
 Broad spectrum of theoretical knowledge
 Industrial experience
 Infrastructure
 Laboratory space (physics, fluid dynamics, …)
 High-voltage laboratory
 Compute Cluster
 Network
 Well connected in the academic world: Ongoing collaborations
with various universities.
 Organizations: CIGRE, NAFEMS,
 …
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3. Who we are – institute partners and professors
Prof. Dr. Markus Friedl
Institute Head
Thermodynamics
Power to Gas
Prof. Dr. Henrik Nordborg
Microsoft Innovation Center
Computational Physics
Numerical Simulations
CFD
Prof. Dr. Benno Bucher
Experimental Physics
Semiconductors
Advance Measurements
Prof. Dr. Jasmin Smajic
Computational Electromagnetism
High-voltage laboratory
Electrical machines
Prof. Carsten Wemhöner
Thermodynamics
Building Technologies
Prof. Thomas Kopp
Thermodynamics
Heat pumps
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4. Who we are – senior researchers
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Dr. Lukasz Miroslaw
Computer Science
Machine Learning
Roman Fuchs
MSc ETHZ CSE
Computational
Science and
Engineering
Mario Mürmann
Dipl. Physiker RWTH
Arc simulations
Plasma
Boris Meier
MSc ETHZ
Mechanical Engineering
Marcel Koller
MSc ETHZ
Computational
Science and
Engineering
Dr. Elimar Frank
Physics
Solar energy
Dr. Matthias Bucher
Dr. sc ETH
High-Voltage
Dr. Michael Schüller
Dr. sc ETH
High-Voltage

5. Wo we are – scientific staff
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6. Microsoft Innovation Center Rapperswil
 Microsoft Partner in the areas of
 Cloud Computing
 Machine Learning
 Internet of Things
 Software Development
 Simulation and Modeling
 Image Processing
 Numerical Methods
 High-Performance Computing (HPC)
 Computing on demand
 Instant ANSYS
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7. Competence area CFD
 CFD = Computational Fluid Dynamics
 Transport of mass, momentum, and heat
 Applications
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8. Reference projects: Computation Fluid Dynamics
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CFD Analysis of a
shower head
(Weidmann)
Acoustic Analysis of a
gas turbine air intake
(ALSTOM)
Air Flow analysis of an
office building (Barcol Air)

9. Example 1 – Hydrozyklon
 Single or multiphase
 Particle Tracking
Turbo-Separator, Wattwil, 25.11.2015
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 A1 – A5: Geschwindigkeitsverteilung bei unterschiedlichen Einlaufgeschwindigkeiten
 A6 : Strömungslinien
A6

10. Example 2 – Mixer
 Fluid-Solid Mixture
Turbo-Separator, Wattwil, 25.11.2015
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11. Example 3 – «Riser»
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 Partikel Geschwindigkeit  Partikel Volumenanteil  Partikel Tracking
Inle
t
Luft
Outlet
Particle
Injection
Solid particles in the air

12. Modes of collaboration
 Student theses
 Bachelor Thesis (360 hours)
 Master’s Thesis (810 hours)
 CTI projects
 100% more resources for your project
 10% cash contribution from industry
 Directly funded projects
 Expertise and infrastructure
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The results do not have to
be published, unless you
want to.
Contact: Prof. Henrik Nordborg
email: Henrik.Nordborg@hsr.ch
Tel. +41 55 222 4370