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Fritz Bark

Professor in Hydromechanics
Phone: int+46-8-790 75 33
Fax: int+46-8-790 75 33
E-mail: fritz@mech.kth.se
WWW: Personal homepage


Education

Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics at KTH 1974.

Professional history

Extra professor in Applied Mechanics 1979, professor in

Research and Professional Activities

Research in fluid mechanics, in particular convection in electrochemical systems and process in paper technology. Director of the Faxén Laboratory

Teaching activity

Leader for the following list of courses.
For the complete list of courses at mechanics, see the course page

CourseProg. TitleStudiehandbok
SG1220  Teknisk stömningsmekanik/Fluid Mechanics for Engineers [swe] [eng]
SG1220  Teknisk stömningsmekanik/Fluid Mechanics for Engineers [swe] [eng]
SG2128  TEGMM  Research Methodology in Mechanics [swe] [eng]

Publications

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Year Title
2008 A note on electrolysis with forced convection at large Peclet number in a channel with an excess of supporting electrolyte
Russian Journal of Electrochemistry 44 470-478
2007 Effects of non-linear kinetics on free convection in an electrochemical cell with a porous separator
J. Appl Electrochem. 37 1287-1302
2006 Numerical and experimental study of the effect of gas evolution in electrolytic pickling
J. Appl Electrochem. 36 1367-1379
2004 Dynamics of Brownian particles in a turbulent channel flow
Heat Mass Transfer 40 715-726
2002 A Simple Analytical Model Predicting Some Features of the Electrolytic Steel-Pickling Process
Russian Journal of Electrochemistry 38 238-246
2001 Anomalous velocity fluctuations in particulate turbulent channel flow
Int. J. Multiphase Flow 27 701-719
2001 Effects of wall roughness in a gas-particle turbulent vertical channel flow
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 2 II 117-122
2000 LES of turbulent flow of a binary electrolyte
J. Appl Electrochem. 30 1335-1343
2000 Validation of the Fringe region Technique in LES of Turbulent Mass Transfer at High Schmidt Number
3rd Int. Symp. on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer, 2-6 April 2000  
2000 Structure information in rapid distortion analysis and one-point modeling of axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Phys. Fluids 12 2609-2620
1999 On MHD turbulence models for simulation of magnetic brakes in continuous steel casting processes
Transfer Phenomena in Magetohydrodynamic and Electroconducting Flows. Alemany, Kluwer Academic Publishers  61-76
1999 Turbulent free convection in large electrochemical cells with a binary electrolyte
J. Appl Electrochem. 29 27-34
1999 Influence of the near-wall drag correction in a Lagrangian simulation of particulate turbulent channel flow
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 1  259-264
1998 Force balance in a turbulent particulate channel flow.
Int. J. Multiphase Flow 24 867-887
1998 On the theroretical aspects of thermal effects in electrochemical cells.
J. Electroanal. Chem 450 37-45
1998 On usteady electrochemical coating of a cylinder at moderately large Reynolds number.
J. Appl Electrochem. 27 1369-1379
1998 Development of a Reynolds stress closure for modeling of homogeneous MHD turbulence
Phys. Fluids 10:8 1987-1996
1998 A Numerical Study of Cake Formation in 2-D Cross Flow Filtration
J. Pulp and Paper Sci. 24:9 281-285
1998 Fluid stress balance in a turbulent particulate channel flow
Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. On Multiphase flow, Lyon, France, 8-12 June P157 1-8
1998 Flow effects and modeling in gas-cooled quenching
Proc. 11th Int. Heat Transfer conf.,Kyongju, Korea, 23-25 Aug.  
1998 Prediction of heat transfer coefficients and examination of their effects on distortion of tubes quenched by gas cooling
Proc. 11th Cong. of the Int. Fed. For Heat Treatment and Surface Eng., Firenze, Italia, Oct. 19-21, 1998  
1998 Prediction of convective heat transfer coefficients and examination of their effects on distortion and mechanical properties of cylindrical bodies quenched by gas cooling
Proc. 1999 ASME/JSME Thermal Eng. Joint Conf., San Diego, CA, March 19-23  
1997 A numerical study of cake formation in 2D cross-flow filtration.
Journal of Pulp and paper science  
1997 An analysis of blade dewatering in a twin-wire papermachine.
Journal of Pulp and paper science 23 452-459
1997 Large eddy simulation of particle motion in a turbulent channel flow.
Proceedings of the ASME Fluid engineering division summer meeting, Vancouver, Canada FEDSM-3591 1-6
1997 MHD turbulence model for simulation of magnetic brakes in continuous steel casting processes
PAMIR Conf, on transfer phenomena in magnetohydronamic & electroconducing flows, Aussois - France. Full length manuscript to be published in book form in autumn 1998  
1996 On unstedy electrochemical coating of a cylinder at moderatly large Reynolds number
Stud. Appl. Math.  
1996 Electrolysis of a binary electrolyte in two-dimensional channel flow.
Electrochim. Acta  2909-2916
1996 Mass transport in a weakly stratified cell.
Information missing  
1996 Joule heating in electrochemical cells.
Proc. Third KSME-JSME Thermal Engineering Conference, Kyongju, Korea. 2 9-17
1996 On the theoretical apects of thermal effects in electrochemical cells .
Electrochemical Acta  
1996 On modelling of dewatering in twin-wire blade forming prcess.
Journal of Pulp and paper science  
1995 Book review: Hydronamics of suspensions.
J. Fluid Mech. 290 406-408
1995 Free convcection in an electrochemical system with nonlinear reaction kinetics
J. Fluid Mech. 290 1-28
1995 Properties of polarizations curves for electrochemical cells described by Butler-Volmer kinetics and arbitary values of the transfer coefficient.
Electrochemical Acta 40 247-252
1995 Diffiusion - migration transport in a system with Butler - Volmer kinetics an exact solution.
Electrochim. Acta  
1995 On morphological insability during electrodepositon with a stagant binary electrolyete
Electrochim. Acta 40 599-614
1995 On anisotropic subgrid moddeling in large eddy simulations.
European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids 14 459-486
1995 On the fluid mechanics of twin wire blade forming in paper machines.
Nordic Pulp and paper research Journal 4 245-252
1995 Electrolysis of a binary electrolyte in two - dimensional channel flow.
Electrochim. Acta  
1995 Mass transport in a weakly stratified cell.
J. Appl Electrochem.  
1995 Book review: Hydrodynamics of suspensions by M. Ungarish.
J. Fluid Mech. 290 406-408
1995 Free convection in an electrochemical system with nonlinear reaction kinetics
J. Fluid Mech. 290 1-28
1995 Properties of polarization curves for electrochemical cells described by Butler-Volmer kinetics and arbitary values of transfer coefficient.
Electrochim. Acta 40 247-252
1995 Diffusion - migration transport in a system Butler - Volmer kinetics, an exact solution.
Electrochim. Acta  
1995 On morphological instability during electrodeposition with a stagant binary electrolyte.
Electrochim. Acta 40 599-614
1995 On anistropic subgrid modeling in Large Eddy Simulations.
European journal of physics 10 459-486
1995 On the fluid mechanics of twin wire blade forming in paper mechines.
Nordic Pulp and paper research Journal  
1995 Electrolysis of a binary electrolyte in two - dimensional channel flow.
Electrochemical Acta  
1995 Mass transport in a weakly stratified cell.
J. Appl Electrochem.  
1994 A sketch of a portrait of Mårten T. Landahl.
Appl. Sci. Res. 53 1-4
1994 Convection in electrochemical systems.
Appl. Sci. Res. 53 11-34
1994 Effects of electromigration on polarization curves for parallel electrode reactions in the absence of indifferent electrolyte.
J. Electroanal. Chem 379 43-51
1994 Spin up of a rapidly rotating gas in thermally insulated annulus
J. Fluid Mech. 274 383-404
1994 Numerical computations of natural convection and mass transfer in a small copper electrolsis cell.
Proc. 183:rd meeting of the electrochem.  246-247
1994 Convection in electrochemical systems .
Appl. Sci. Res.  
1994 On the influence of electromigration on polarization curves for parallel electrode reactions in the absence of indifferent electrolyte.
J. Electronal. Chem.  
1994 On the character of polarization curves for electrochemical cells described by Butler - Volmer kinetics with an arbitary transfer coefficient.
Electrochemical Acta  
1994 On morphological instability during electrodeposition with a stagant electrolyte.
Electrochim. Acta  
1993 Spin up of a rapidly rotating gas in thermallyh insulated container.
J. Fluid Mech.  
1993 Free convection in an electrochemical system with nonlinear reaction kinetics. .
J. Fluid Mech.  
1993 12 articles on mechanics and fluid mechanics written for the swedish National Encyclopedia.
The Swedish National Encyclopedia.  
1993 On anistropic subgrid modelling in Large Eddy Simulations.
European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids  
1993 Free Convection in an electrochemical system with nonlinear reaction kinetics.
J. Fluid Mech.  
1993 Spin up of a rapidly rotating gas in a thermally insulated container.
J. Fluid Mech.  
1993 On anistropic subgrd modeling in large eddy simulations.
European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids  
1992 Some Fluid mechanical problems in metallurgy.
Fluid. Dyn. Res 10 327
1992 Convection in electrochemica systems.
Appl. Sci. Res.  
1992 Unsteady free convection in cavity due to prescribed fluxes of heat or mass at the vertical walls.
J. Fluid Mech. 235 665
1992 Nonlinear behaviour of an electrochemical system.
Proc. 2:nd JSME - KSME thermal eng. conf.  205
1992 Some comments on the fluid mechancis of twin wire. Report written for the swedish paper and pulp research institute.
Swedish paper and pulp research institute.  
1992 11 Articles on mechanics and fluid mechanics written for the swedish natioanal encyclopedia.
The Swedish National Encyclopedia.  
1992 Compendium in fluid mechanics (revision).
Information missing  
1992 Diffusion - migration in a system with Butler - Volmer kinetics, an exact solution.
Electrochemical Acta  
1986 On the time dependent settling of a dilute suspension in a rotating conical channel.
J. Fluid Mech. 166 473-502
1984 Axisymmetric stratified two-layer flow in a rotating conical channel
Eur. Biophys. J. 3 861-878

Internal reports

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Year Title Type
1997 An analytocal Method to Calculate the Flow Past a Blade in twin-wire Formers Technical report
1992 Strömningsmekanik av 1992 års tappning av institutionen för mekanik. An article (in swedish) in the anniversary volume celebrating 75 years of KTH at the valhallavägen location. Technical report
1974 On the wave structure of turbulent boundary layers with application to drag reduction. Doctoral thesis

Projects

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Period Title Area
2002- Cold Gas Quenching Education didactics
1998- Modelling of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Fluid mechanics
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