Research

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

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)

Attendance: 14(Students: 2; Staff: 8; Others:4)

On May 9th Prof. Ingenuin Gasser (Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg) provided topics about mathematical modelling, simulation and optimizations based on renewable energy technology.
Renewable energies (REs) come into a mainstream towards construction of sustainable society. While there are different situations (e.g., availability of energy resources) among EU, Japan and other regions, demands of REs are increasing in many scenes.
Good models and optimization of various equipments and/or setups will be required to evaluate their efficiency/validity as simple/fast/accurate as possible and to design sustainable structures.
Prof. Gasser and his collaborators have done many achievements in this field, which have provided us with various insights on mathematical modelling and application of advanced mathematics in realistic issues.
He has provided several examples among his achievements:
･ From termite mounds to climate neutral building,
･ Parabolic troughs,
･ Geothermal power, and
･ Pressure retarded osmosis.
His issues begin with fluid dynamics including several external forces and constraints depending on specific situations, and simplify the models under several asymptotics towards simpler models so that we can easily investigate fundamentals and details.
All achievements involving these researches provide qualitative agreement with realistic applications and data from prototypes despite the simpleness of models.
While there are various issues to be improved (such as well-posedness or asymptotic behavior of solutions, network structure of models and optimizations of characteristics), a series of ideas provides a unified way and process to consider issues in realistic scenes from mathematical viewpoints.