Honorary Professor Michel Riethmuller
Honorary Professor
Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics Department
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Waterloosesteenweg 72
1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode
Retired since 1st February 2011
Department of Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics
Diplôme de l'Institut des Sciences de l'Ingénieur de Nancy, (I.S.I.N.), France
Spécialisation : Mécanique des Fluides, 1968
Areas of research
- High and low speed two-phase flows including gas-particle flows
- Optical measurement techniques including:
- Laser Doppler Velocimetry
- Particle Image Velocimetry
- Rainbow Thermometry
- Ejectors and jet pumps
- Biological flows
- Dynamics of sprays
- Digital image processing
- Recirculation in forced draft cooling towers
- Gas dispersal
- Action of water spray curtains on heavy gases
- Dispersion in the vicinity of an oil platform and recirculation of gas effluents within large buildings
- Variable conductance heat pipes and aircraft air conditioning
- Unsteady phenomena in the feeding lines of a liquid propellant rocket engine
- Control of zinc coating in a galvanization process
- Synthetic fibre production : heat transfer between fibres and air
- Microclimate studies within complex buildings
- Fluid dynamics of Continuous Casting of Steel