Research Interests

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Professor Schmid's research interests focus on computational fluid dynamics with emphasis on hydrodynamic stability and the transition from laminar to turbulent fluid flow. Currently, he is working on the transient short-time development of disturbances in a variety of flow situations such as plane bounded shear flows, pipe flow, and vortical and granular flows. Other interests include the design of preconditioners for the compressible Euler equations, the breakdown of coherent structures in fully developed turbulence and the micro-fluid-dynamical interaction of spherical particles which aims at improving the constitutive relations for particulate media.

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