Event info

Date: Wednesday, 9 May 2025 15:00 - 16:00

Place: IMI Auditorium(W1-D-413) and Live streaming with Zoom

Speaker: Prof. Ingenuin Gasser (Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Science / Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, Germany)

Title: Modelling, simulation and optimisation of power plants based on renewable energies

Abstract:
The presentation refers to the mathematical modelling of power plants based on renewable resources ranging from established applications such as parabolic trough power plants to osmotic pressure driven energy conversion technologies. The complexity of such applications requires a substantial mathematical modelling effort to finally end up with reasonable models, which can be simulated fast and robust and which allow optimisation approaches. All applications involve fluid dynamic or thermo-fluid dynamic models which have to be significantly reduced under the restriction of keeping the most relevant chemical and physical effects. Mathematically these models are nonlinear systems of PDE’s of mixed elliptic-hyperbolic type.

In view of the underlying application we discuss which quantities are reasonable to be optimized, e.g. the power output of the power plant with respect to operational or system parameters.