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


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)