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Philipp Schlatter

PhD, Docent
Phone: int+46-8-790 71 76
Fax: int+46-8-796 98 50
E-mail: pschlatt@mech.kth.se
WWW: Personal homepage


Education

2010 Docent in Fluid Mechanics, KTH Mechanics
2005 PhD from ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2001 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Professional history

2010- Associate Professor (Lektor) at KTH Mechanics
2007-2010 Research Associate (Forskarassistent) at KTH Mechancis
2005-2006 Postdoc at KTH Mechanics
2001-2005 PhD student at ETH Zürich
1996-2001 Studies Mechanical Engineering ETH Zürich

Research and Professional Activities

Coordinator for FLOW e-Science Community with the Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC)

Member of the executive committee of KCSE (KTH Computational Science and Engineering Centre)

Turbulent Boundary Layers (DNS Data, animation and Poster APS-DFD 09)
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation of Transitional and Turbulent Flows (NSC News)
Bypass Transition: Animation
High Performance Computing

Co-organiser/Secretary for:

You can contact me also via skype (name: pschlatt)

List of publications as pdf or on Google Scholar.

Teaching activity

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

CourseProg. TitleStudiehandbok
SG2212  All  Computational Fluid Dynamics [swe] [eng]

Publications

Please note that this list might not be complete. Follow each article link for additional authors.
Year Title
2013 Oblique Laminar-Turbulent Interfaces in Plane Shear Flows
Physical Review Letters 110 034502
2013 Correcting hot-wire spatial resolution effects in third and fourth-order velocity moments in wall-bounded turbulence
Exp. Fluids 54 1496
2012 Turbulent boundary-layer flow: Comparing experiments with DNS
Progress in Turbulence and Wind Energy IV, Springer Proceedings in Physics  213-216
2012 Self-sustained localized structures in a boundary-layer flow
Physical Review Letters 108 044501
2012 Bifurcation and stability analysis of a jet in crossflow: Onset of global instability at low velocity ratio
J. Fluid Mech.  
2012 Rare backflow and extreme wall-normal velocity fluctuations in near-wall turbulence
Phys. Fluids 24 035110
2012 Turbulent boundary layers at moderate Reynolds numbers: inflow length and tripping effects
J. Fluid Mech. 710 5-34
2012 Pressure Fluctuation in High-Reynolds Number Turbulent Boundary Layer; Results from Experiments and DNS
Journal of Turbulence 13 1-19
2012 Self-similar transport of inertial particles in a turbulent boundary layer
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 706 
2012 Wall accumulation and spatial localization in particle-laden wall flows
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 699 
2011 Self-sustained global oscillations in a jet in crossflow
Theoret. Comput. Fluid dynamics 25 129-146
2011 The viscous sublayer revisited—exploiting self-similarity to determine the wall position and friction velocity
Exp. Fluids 51 271-280
2011 Effects of modelling, resolution and anisotropy of subgrid-scales on large eddy simulations of channel flow
J. Turbulence 12 (10) 1-20
2011 A method to estimate turbulence intensity and transverse Taylor microscale in turbulent flows from spatially averaged hot-wire data
Exp. Fluids 51 693-700
2011 Global linear and nonlinear stability of viscous confined plane wakes with co-flow
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 675 397-434
2011 Pressure Fluctuation in High-Reynolds Number Turbulent Boundary Layer - Results from Experiments and Numerical Simulations
Seventh International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomema, July 28 - 31, 2011, Ottawa, Canada  
2011 A method to correct third and fourth order moments in turbulent flows
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 318 042023
2011 Inflow length and tripping effects in turbulent boundary layers
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 318 022018
2011 Negative streamwise velocities and other rare events near the wall in turbulent flows
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 318 022013
2011 On the fluctuating wall-shear stress in zero pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer flows
Phys. Fluids 23 021704
2011 A vorticity stretching diagnostic for turbulent and transitional flows
Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics  
2011 The spectral-element and pseudo-spectral methods: A comparative study
Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Equations, LNCSE 76 459–468
2011 Stabilization of the spectral-element method in turbulent flow simulations
Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Equations, LNCSE 76 449–458
2011 Stochastic and deterministic motion of a laminar-turbulent front in a spanwisely extended Couette flow
Phys. Rev. E. 84 066315
2011 Stability of a jet in crossflow
Phys. Fluids 23 091113
2011 Entropy generation in a boundary layer transitioning under the influence of freestream turbulence
J. Fluids Eng. 133 061203
2011 Large-scale accumulation patterns of intertial particles in wall-bounded turbulent flows
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 86 519-532
2011 Turbulent asymptotic suction boundary layers studied by simulation
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 318 022020
2011 Turbulent boundary layers: Inflow effects and cross-validation of simulation and experiment
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 64rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 20–22, 2011, Baltimore, Maryland 56 
2011 Turbulent boundary layers in long computational domains
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 64rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 20–22, 2011, Baltimore, Maryland 56 
2011 Progress in simulations of turbulent boundary layers
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, 28-31 July 2011, Ottawa, Canada  1-10
2011 Effects of rapid spanwise rotation on turbulent channel flow with a passive scalar
Seventh International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomema, July 28 - 31, 2011, Ottawa, Canada  
2011 Turbulence, instabilities and passive scalars in rotating channel flow
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 318 032025
2011 Cyclic bursts in rotating wall turbulence
64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 20–22, 2011, Baltimore, USA  
2011 Instabilities and Flow Structures in a Rotating Channel
APS Online Image Gallery  
2011 Direct numerical simulations of stratified open-channel flows
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 318 022009
2010 Formation of turbulent patterns near the onset of transition in plane Couette flow
J. Fluid Mech. 650 119-129
2010 Simulations of spatially evolving turbulent boundary layers up to Re_\theta = 4300
Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 31 251-261
2010 Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition
Springer  
2010 Large-scale accumulation patterns of inertial particles in wall-bounded turbulent flows
6th International Symposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer Rome, Italy, September 14-18, 2009  
2010 Quantifying the interaction between large and small scales in wall-bounded turbulent flows: A note of caution
Phys. Fluids 22 051704
2010 Direct numerical simulation of separated flow in a three-dimensional diffuser
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 650 307 - 318
2010 Assessment of direct numerical simulation data of turbulent boundary layers
J. Fluid Mech. 659 116-126
2010 Comparison of SGS models for passive scalar mixing in turbulent channel flows
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VIII  
2010 Simulations of a boundary layer subject to free-stream turbulence
J. Turbulence 11 (45) 1-33
2010 The viscous sublayer revisited
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 21–23, 2010, Long Beach, California  
2010 Numerical study of the stabilisation of boundary-layer disturbances by finite amplitude streaks
Int. J. Flow Control 2 259-288
2010 Numerical study of turbulent-laminar patterns in MHD, rotating and stratified shear flows
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VIII  
2010 Large-eddy simulation of turbulent flow in a plane asymmetric diffuser by the spectral-element method
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VII 
2010 Simulations of heat transfer in a boundary layer subject to free-stream turbulence
J. Turbulence 45 
2009 Global stability of a jet in cross-flow
J. Fluid Mech. 624 33-44
2009 DNS of a spatially developing turbulent boundary layer with passive scalar transport
Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 30(5) 916-929
2009 Spectral analysis of nonlinear flows
J. Fluid Mech. 641 115-127
2009 Simulations of heat transfer in a boundary layer subject to free-stream turbulence
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 6 I 195-200
2009 Turbulent boundary layers up to Re_\theta=2500 studied through simulation and experiment
Physics of Fluids 21 051702
2009 Localized edge states in plane Couette flow
Physics of Fluids 21 111701
2009 Towards large-eddy simulations of high-Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 6  271-276
2009 Reduced-order models for flow control: balanced models and Koopman modes
Proc. Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009  43-50
2009 Stripy patterns in low-Re turbulent plane Couette flow
Proc. Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009  159-164
2009 Interaction of noise disturbances and streamwise streaks
Proc. Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009  355-360
2009 Entropy generation rate in turbulent spots in a boundary layer subject to free stream turbulence
Proc. Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009  557-560
2009 Interaction of noise disturbances and streamwise streaks
Advances in Turbulence XII, Proc. 12th EUROMECH ETC, Sept. 7-10, 2009, Marburg, Germany  151-154
2009 Large-scale pattern formation in transitional Couette flow
Advances in Turbulence XII, Proc. 12th EUROMECH ETC, Sept. 7-10, 2009, Marburg, Germany  93-96
2008 DNS and LES of estimation and control of transition in boundary layers subject to free-stream turbulence
Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 29, Issue 3 841-855
2008 On streak breakdown in bypass transition
Phys. Fluids 20 101505
2008 DNS of three-dimensional turbulent boundary layers
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VII  
2008 DNS of a turbulent boundary layer with passive scalar transport
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VII  329-335
2007 LES of subharmonic transition in a supersonic boundary layer
AIAA Journal 45 1019-1027
2007 Simulations of turbulent flow in a plane asymmetric diffuser
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion  79 275-306
2007 Research on the interaction between streamwise streaks and Tollmien–Schlichting waves at KTH
ERCOFTAC Bulletin 74 37-43
2007 Numerical study on the stabilisation of Tollmien-Schlichting waves by finite amplitude streaks
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 5 2 849-854
2007 The effect of free-stream turbulence on growth and breakdown of Tollmien-Schlichting waves
Advances in Turbulence XI, Proceedings of the eleventh European Turbulence Conference  179-181
2006 Steady solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations by selective frequency damping
Phys. Fluids 18 068102
2006 LES of spatial transition in plane channel flow
J. Turbulence 7(33) 1-24
2006 Applicability of LES models for prediction of transitional flow structures
Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Proc. IUTAM Symp., Bangalore, Dec. 13-17. 2004. Ed. Rama Govindarajan, Springer,   323-328
2006 Analysis of the SGS energy budget for deconvolution- and relaxation-based models in channel flow
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VI  pp. 135-142
2006 Numerical simulation of transition and turbulence in wall-bounded shear flow
High Performance Computing on Vector Systems  pp. 77-86
2006 Large-eddy simulation of transition and turbulence in wall-bounded shear flow
ERCOFTAC Bulletin 71 37-39
2005 Large-eddy simulation of transition and turbulence in wall-bounded shear flow
PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich, Switzerland  
2005 A windowing method for periodic inflow/outflow boundary treatment of non-periodic flows
J. Comput. Phys. 206(2) 505-535
2005 High-pass filtered eddy-viscosity models for large-eddy simulations of transitional and turbulent flow
Phys. Fluids 17(065103) 1-14
2005 Evaluation of high-pass filtered eddy-viscosity models for large-eddy simulation of turbulent flow
J. Turbulence 6(5) 1-21
2005 LES of spatial transition in plane channel flow
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 4  419-424
2005 Computational simulation of transitional and turbulent shear flows
Progress in Turbulence 101 pp. 207-214
2004 Transition in boundary layers subject to free-stream turbulence
J. Fluid Mech. 517 167-198
2004 LES of transitional flows using the approximate deconvolution model
Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 25(3) 549-558
2004 High-pass filtered eddy-viscosity models for LES
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation V  pp. 81-88
2004 Relaxation-term models for LES of transitional/turbulent flows and the effect of aliasing errors
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation V  pp. 65-72
2004 High-pass filtered eddy-viscosity models in incompressible high-Reynolds number flows
Advances in Turbulence X, Proceedings of the tenth European turbulence conference  pp. 303-306
2003 LES of transitional flows using approximate deconvolution
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 3  pp. 923-928
2002 Numerical simulations of transition in a boundary layer under free-stream turbulence
Advances in Turbulence IX, Proc. IX European Turbulence Conference, Southampton 2002  17-20
2001 Direct numerical simulation of laminar-turbulent transition in boundary layer subject to free-stream turbulence
MSc Thesis, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and KTH Stockholm, Sweden  

Internal reports

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Year Title Type
2008 Spectral simulations of wall-bounded flows on massively-parallel computers Technical report
2007 SIMSON - A Pseudo-Spectral Solver for Incompressible Boundary Layer Flows Technical report

Projects

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Period Title Area
2009- Numerical study of fully deveoped high Reynolds number turbulent pipe flow Fluid mechanics
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