Gustav Amberg
This is the home page of Gustav Amberg, Professor of fluid mechanics at
the dept of Mechanics, KTH (Royal Inst of Tech), Stockholm.
I am also Dean of the School of
Engineering Sciences.
Most of my recent research deals with convective heat and mass transfer
phenomena in materials processes of different kinds. It ranges from studying
more fundamental aspects of solidification and phase
change, to particular processes. In all of these problems convective heat
and mass transfer is a key element. I also work on thermocapillary
convection, fluid motions induced by surface tension variations over a free
surface. This is a common phenomenon in many materials processes, such as
crystal growth and welding. I am also involved in work on the growth of
individual dendritic crystals, using phase-field simulations. Recently I have
developed symbolic computation tools to generate
finite element code for general systems of partial differential equations,
which are used to simulate problems in the areas above. I have also done work
on rotating flows and two-phase flows.
Selected
Publications. Recent publications generated from the department staff info
page.
I am a member of the editorial board of Fluid Dynamics & Materials
Processing.
femLego, a problem solving environment
that uses symbolic computations to generate finite element programs for 1, 2
and 3D simulations.
Computational
Phase Transformations. I am coordinator of a joint effort to study phase
transformations by computer simulations.