Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Liquid metal battery

Dr. Norbert Weber

Porträt Dr. Weber, Norbert; FWDH-B

Phone

+49 351 260 3112

Email

norbert.weberAthzdr.de

Link

ORCID: 0000-0002-5191-0122

Address
Building/Office

Bautzner Landstraße 400 - 01328 Dresden
241/114

Fields of interest

  • Fluid dynamics: (thermo-)solutal convection, Marangoni convection
  • Magnetohydrodynamics: Tayler instability, metal pad roll instability, electro-vortex flow
  • Electrochemical energy storage: fuel cells, liquid metal batteries, molten salt batteries, ZEBRA and NaS batteries
  • Electrochemical processes: aluminium reduction, molten oxide electrolysis
  • Numerical simulation: fluid dynamics, electrodynamics, mass- and heat-transfer, electrochemistry
  • OpenFOAM: VOF, multi-region modelling, multiphysics

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

University Education

  • 2016: PhD at Technische Universität Dresden. Topic: "Numerical simulation of Tayler instability and electro-vortex flow in liquid metal batteries"
  • 2004 – 2011: Study of mechanical engineering at Technische Universität Dresden

Work experience

  • 2011 – today: Research associate at Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden – Rossendorf

International experience

  • 2019 Visiting researcher at CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
  • 2018 Visiting researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
  • 2016 Visiting researcher at Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l’Ingénieur, Paris, France
  • 2010/2011 Master thesis at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  • 2008/2009 Erasmus exchange at University Bordeaux 1, France

Projects