Dennis Powalla
- since 03/2019 Research Assistant, PhD Student at the Laboratory od Fluid Dynamics and Technical Flows
- 04/2017 – 03/2019 Master of Science Sustainable Energy Systems with focus on turbomachines, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg
- 10/2013 – 04/2017 Bachelor of Science Environmental and Energy Process Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg
- 08/2011 – 10/2013 State certified technician in Mining Engineering with focus on process engineering, Technical College for Economy and Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld
- 01/2004 – 08/2011 Chemical production technician, K+S KALI GmbH, company location Hattorf
- 08/2000 – 01/2004 Vocational education as chemical production technician, K+S KALI GmbH, company location Hattorf
Research Activities
- Water turbines, focus on water vortex power plants
- Environmentally compliant hydropower systems
- Mimicking fish behaviour using CFD-DEM coupling
Projects
- RETERO - Reduction of animal testing to establish risk of injury on fish caused by turbine passage through the use of robotic surrogates, computational fluid mechanics and predictive modeling
Publications
Starting 2003 you can find a full reference list of the lab can be found under Research