Prof. Dr. Francesca di Mare
Prof. Dr Francesca di Mare has been supporting the AG Turbo programme management since May 2022. She has held the Chair of Thermal Turbomachinery and Aero Engines at Ruhr University Bochum since August 2017 and has been Director of the Institute of Energy Technology in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Ruhr University Bochum since July 2018.
From 2009 to 2017, Francesca di Mare worked at the Institute of Propulsion Technology at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Cologne. From June 2017 to September 2018, she headed the Combustion Chamber department. In 2014, she was appointed to the W2 professorship for Numerical Gas Dynamics for Energy Conversion Systems based on the Jülich Model at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where she took over as Head of Combustion Research at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre Combustor/Turbine Interaction (Director: Prof. H.-P. Schiffer) in 2016.
In her work, Francesca di Mare deals with turbulence modelling (LES, RANS), numerical simulations of turbulent, compressible and compressible, reacting, multiphase flows in turbomachinery and aircraft engines and the development and application of Physics Informed Neural Networks.
Francesca die Mare accompanies several functions:
- Since 2023: Spokesperson of the international Horizon Europe consortium "MYTHOS" for the design of flexible SAF and H2-capable engines.
- Member of the coordination team of the SPP2403 "Carnot Batteries - Inverse Design from Markets to Molecules“
- Senior Member AIAA
- Member of the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) - German/Swiss Committee
- Since 2022: Chair of the IAPWS Industrial Requirements and Solutions Working Group, member of the Steering Board of the ERCOFTAC Special Interest Group Non-Ideal Compressible Fluid Dynamics (ERCOFTAG-SIG49)
- Since 2020: Member of the board of the SFB/TRR 287 Bulk-Reaction and coordinates the research area C "Systems, Model Reduction and Couples Processes".