Fluid structure interaction for fluid flow normal to deformable porous media [Elektronische Ressource] / Sabine Muntz

Fluid structure interactionfor fluid flow normal todeformable porous mediaSabine MuntzVom Fachbereich Mathematik der Technischen Universita¨tKaiserslautern zur Verleihung des akademischen GradesDoktor der Naturwissenschaften(Doctor rerum naturalium, Dr. rer. nat.)genehmigte Dissertation.Gutachter:Prof. Dr. habil. Oleg IlievProf. D.Sc. Svetozar MargenovDatum der Disputation: 02.12.2008D 386AcknowledgementsMany of the things you can count, don’t count.Many of the things you can’t count, really count.Albert EinsteinAt this point I would like to thank all people who contributed to my work in uncountable ways.First of all, I thank Prof. Dr. habil. Oleg Iliev and Priv.-Doz. Dr. Heiko Andra¨ of the Fraunhofer1ITWM for supervising my PhD thesis.I thank Oleg Iliev for introducing me to the interesting field of my research. I am very gratefulfor all fruitful discussions and useful advice that helped me gain deeper understanding of the topicand led me to new ideas. Many thanks to Heiko Andra¨ for productive conversations, for his helpwith various problems and especially for the enrichment of my research by his point of view as anexpert in mechanical engineering.I owe a lot of gratitude to Dr. Anna Naumovich and Dr. Dariusz Niedziela. Many scientific dis-cussions and helpful advice, regarding the software, helped to accelerate my work.Furthermore, I thank all my colleagues of the department “Flow and Material Simulation” of theFraunhofer ITWM.