Prof Dr Thomas Link

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Professor

+49 3631 420-455
+49 3631 420-825
Building 34, Room 34.0110

Department:

Department of Engineering

Study area:

IT, Technology & Engineering

Professorship or teaching area:

Power and work machines

Institute or organisation:

AKI | August Kramer Institute, in.RET | Institute for Regenerative Energy Technology

Professional career

Education

Apprenticeship as an industrial mechanic
Studied construction technology at the Rheinische Fachhochschule Cologne
Mechanical engineering studies at RWTH Aachen University

Professional stations

Institute for Jet Propulsion and Turbo Machinery at RWTH Aachen University
RWE AG
Atlas Copco Energas GmbH

Dissertation

Simulation of non-equilibrium flows in nozzles with a finite element method, RWTH Aachen, degree 2001

Work at the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences

since 2008

Publications

Selection

Carow, J., Link, T., Gas Flow through a Diaphragm Expander: Fluid-Structure Interaction in ANSYS CFX, ANSYS Conference & 32nd CADFEM Users' Meeting 2014.
Wesselak, V., Schabbach, T., Link, T., Fischer, J., Regenerative Energy Technology, Springer Verlag, 2013.
Link, T., Koschel, W., Computation of the Two-Dimensional Flow in SERN-Nozzels, Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics, Volume 77, Springer Verlag, 2002.
Link, T., Koschel, W., Computation of a Nonequilibrium Expansion Flow in a Single Expansion Ramp Nozzle, Journal of Propulsion and Power, 2001.

Fields of activity at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences

Courses

in the study programmes GT, RET, URT and in the engineering undergraduate programme:

Technical Mechanics I + II (Engineering Science Foundation Programme)
Fluid mechanics (URT, RET, GT)
Power and work machines (RET)
Wind energy systems (RET)

Main research areas

Orc processes, expanders for small outputs, CFD

Further university involvement

Dean of Studies of the Master's programme in Systems Engineering
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering
Examination Board of the Faculty of Engineering
Member of the Institute for Regenerative Energy Technology - in.RET

Cooperation partners from industry and science

Research projects

GFE - Gesellschaft für Fertigungstechnik und Entwicklung Schmalkalden e. V.
TTZ GmbH & Co KG, Königs Wusterhausen
Binowa GmbH, Freyburg OT Weischütz
Hörisch-Präzision GmbH, Apolda
Müller Kunststofftechnik GmbH, Kirchheiligen
CM!T³ Carbon Manufaktur GbR, Würzburg
Richter Feinwerktechnik GmbH, Schönbrunn im Steigerwald

Final theses

Nordex SE, Hamburg
AREVA Wind GmbH, Bremerhaven
Vestas Deutschland GmbH, Husum
PowerWind GmbH, Hamburg
Boreas Energie GmbH, Dresden
juwi Wind GmbH, Wörrstadt
SINOI GmbH, Nordhausen
MVV Energie AG, Mannheim
Lahmeyer International GmbH, Bad Vilbel
Wind-consult GmbH, Admannshagen-Bargeshagen
Vattenfall Europe Generation AG