Research Interests

• Investigations on the laminar-turbulent breakdown in hypersonic boundary layers with chemical and thermal nonequilibrium
• Investigations on the wake of isolated roughness elements in hypersonic boundary layers with chemical and thermal nonequilibrium
• Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of a generic ramp configuration at supersonic speeds
• Re-entry Aerothermodynamics
• Uncertainty analysis of shock-droplet interactions

Selected Publications

1. C.Stemmer, N.A.Adams, R.Radespiel, T.Sattelmayer, W.Schröder, B.Weigand: Annual Report 2012 of the SFBTRR40 “Technological technologies for the Development of future space-transportation systems under high thermal and mechanical loads”, 2012.

2. C.Stemmer, N.A.Adams, S.Hein, W.Schröder, M.Meinke, H.Olivier, R.Radespiel, D.Heitmann, Experimental and numerical investigation of hypersonic instabilities in a boundary layer on a capsule with and without high-temperature gas effects. RTO-AVT 200 Specialists Meeting on “Hypersonic Laminar-Turbulent Transition”, April 16-19, 2012, San Diego, USA.

3. C.Stemmer, Untersuchungen zur Instabiliät hypersonischer Grenzschichten unter Berücksichtigung von Hochtemperatureffekten. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:91-diss-20110711-1098723-1-5 . Habilitationsschrift TU München, 2012.

INSTITUTE WEBSITE

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