Person

Universitätsprofessor Dr.-Ing.

Wolfgang Schröder

Institutsleiter;

Wolfgang Schröder
Aerodynamic Institute

Address

Room: 201

Wüllnerstraße 5a

52062 Aachen

Contact

work Phone
Phone Number: +49 241 80 95410
Fax: +49 241 80 92257
 

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Milestones
2010-2012 Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University
1995-1998 Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel
1989-1995 Head of Aerodynamics, Division of Astronautics, DASA AG
1987-1989 DFG scholarship recipient at CalTech, USA
1983 -1989 Research assistant at the Institute of Aerodynamics.
Key Research Area: “Finite Approximations in Fluid Mechanics"

 

University Education
1978-1983 Degree Program in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
Specialization: Fluid Mechanics
1987

Doctoral Degree ("Dr.-Ing.")
Dissertation Thesis: "Numerical Integration of the Navier-Stokes Equations Using a Multigrid Approach"
Prizes and Awards
1987 Borchers Medal of RWTH Aachen
1988

Hermann Reissner Award for Aerospace Engineering of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Geodesy, Stuttgart University, together with Dr. D. Hänel und Dr. R. Schwane
2013 Carl Friedrich Gauss Award of the Braunschweig Scientific Society
Memberships
Member of AIAA, DGLR, EUROMECH, GAMM, APS
Reviewer DFG, BMBF, AIF, ZAMM, Comp. & Fl., AIAA, JFM
DFG Review Board Fluid Mechanics 2012 - 2015
Member of the der North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, 2008
IUTAM General Assembly
EUROMECH Treasurer
DEKOMECH, Member of the Extended Board

Editorial Board: International Journal of Aeroacoustics, Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal
General Editor: Notes on Numerical  Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design