History
1932 "Institut für Aerodynamik" (IfA) founded by Prof. Jakob Ackeret. Renamed in 1988 as "Institut für Fluiddynamik" ("Institute of Fluid Dynamics", IFD).
1934 Low-speed wind tunnel operational (2m x 3m test section).
1935 Commissioning of a supersonic wind tunnel (the first closed supersonic tunnel, based on Ackerets original designs). Three decades of pioneering work in aerodynamics by Ackeret and his coworkers.
1967 Prof. J. Ackeret retires.
Successors: Prof. N. Rott and Prof. H. Thomann. Research areas: Unsteady flows, forced acoustic oscillations, nonlinear acoustics, turbulent flows, boundary layer flows, building aerodynamics.
Retired IFD professors
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Ackeret -
Rott -
Thomann -
Fanneløp -
Kleiser -
Rösgen
1983 Prof. T. K. Fanneløp succeeds Prof. N. Rott.
Research areas: safety and environmental flows, boundary layers.
1990 Prof. B. Müller joins the Institute for a period of six years as a limited-term Assistant Professor. Extended activities in Computational Fluid Dynamics.
1994 Prof. L. Kleiser succeeds Prof. H. Thomann.
Research areas: Numerical simulation, transition and turbulence.
1997 Prof. Th. Rösgen succeeds Prof. T. K. Fanneløp.
Research areas: Physics of fluids, micro & nanofluidics, imaging diagnostics.
Prof. P. Koumoutsakos joins the Institute as an Assistant Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Research areas: Aerodynamics, flow control, parallel and neuro-computing.
2000 Prof. P. Koumoutsakos leaves the Institute to lead the newly
established chair of Computational Science at ETH as full Professor.
2003 Prof. P. Jenny joins the Institute as an Assistant Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Research areas: Turbulent reactive flows, flows through porous media, PDF simulation methods.
2006/12 Prof. P. Jenny is promoted to Associate/Full Professor.
2014 Prof. L. Kleiser retires.
2020 Professors O. Supponen and F. Coletti join IFD as Assistant Professor of Multiphase Fluid Dynamics resp. Associate Professor of Experimental Fluid Dynamics.
Research areas of Prof. Supponen: Experimental fluid mechanics, bubble and droplet dynamics, cavitation, encapsulated microbubbles.
Research areas of Prof. Coletti: Dispersed multiphase flows, environmental flows, bio-fluid mechanics.
2022 Prof. Th. Rösgen retires.