NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF INTERCONNECTED SYSTEMS
RESEARCH GROUP
Introduction of the Research Group
Systems of communicating components are crucial in a broad range of applications including space exploration, mobile sensor networks, teleoperated surgical robots, control of teams of vehicles, and integrated building systems. Interconnections are not only manifested by a communication channel, but by the inherent coupling of the states in the equations describing the system. The analysis of communicating dynamic components is timely and important.
Our competencies
Our research group is mainly studying engineering problems that connect the fields of fluid mechanics and solid mechanics
Numerical modeling of fluid flows (CFD and SPH)
1D modeling and simulation of hydraulic systems
Wind turbine design
Energy cascades and turbulence (transfer of energy through different scales)
Aeroelasticity (flutter dynamics)
Particle dampers (reduction of undesired vibrations)
offshore renewable energy
Energy harvesting, offshore renewable energy (wave energy converters)
Achievements
~30 papers published in top journals in the past 5 years
In 2021 Dr. Kalmár-Nagy has won a 4-year NRDI K (OTKA) grant (Title: Stability and Performance of Interconnected Systems: From Networked Control Systems to Fluid Dynamics)
Talent management: 3 OTDK I-II. prizes, 4 BME TDK I. prizes (national and institutional scientific student competitions)
Research infrastructure
Theodore von Karman Wind Tunnel Laboratory
6 wind tunnels including the large recirculation type open wind tunnel (diameter of 2.6 meters in the measurement area)
Optics laboratory
PIV and 2-component LDA instruments
Computational cluster of the Department of Fluid Mechanics
4 large HPC (6-16 cores, 32-128 GB RAM), 8 additional nodes (4 cores 8 GB RAM)