Günther Clauss

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Günther Clauss

Günther F. Clauss (born December 31, 1939 in Munich ) is a German physicist and professor of ship and marine technology.

Life

Clauss studied physics at the Technical Universities of Munich and Berlin . In 1968 he did his doctorate at the Institute for Aerospace Technology at the TU Berlin.

At the suggestion of Prof. Alfred Keil , dean of the engineering faculty at MIT , he shifted the focus of his scientific work from outer space to inner space - from space to the ocean - and founded the new department of marine technology at TU Berlin with his mentor Claus Kruppa . After his habilitation in 1972 and various research stays at MIT ( Department of Ocean Engineering ), the Institute for Ship and Marine Technology at the University of California, Berkeley and the Indian Institute of Technology , Madras, he was appointed to the first German chair for marine technology in 1973 appointed the TU Berlin.

He headed the Institute for Ship and Marine Technology for more than ten years, was elected Dean of the Faculty of Transportation and Machinery Systems for three terms and was a member of the Academic Senate for a total of twelve years .

Research and Teaching

The research activities of Günther Clauss - with a focus on the design and hydromechanics of marine engineering structures - include projects on ship stability and capsize safety, design and optimization of offshore platforms , pipeline laying , floating cranes and oil spill control systems. In the field of deep sea technology, he developed ocean raw material extraction systems and - with his colleague Hans Gerber - the deep sea shuttle MODUS. One focus of his research is the deterministic analysis of ships and marine structures in extremely high monster waves . In this way, the linkages of cause and effect can be investigated numerically as well as experimentally, with tailor-made extreme wave sequences embedded in natural, irregular swell, serving to precisely determine non-linear wave-structure interactions.

Together with colleagues, assistants and industrial partners, he wrote more than 200 publications as well as the books Marine Engineering (was also translated into Korean) and Offshore Structures .

In teaching, Günther Clauss established the mar-ing network together with colleagues from the Universities of Rostock, Hamburg and Duisburg-Essen. New multi-media lectures were developed here: Independent of time and place, courses within the scope of the master’s degree in shipbuilding and marine technology can be accessed ( e-learning ).

More than 30 dissertations were written under his leadership, often as part of research projects - funded by the European Union, federal ministries ( BMBF , BMWi , BMU ), the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Working Group of Industrial Research Associations (AIF) . Günther Clauss - member of RINA (F) and Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) (M) - was involved as chairman and committee member at the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC) and the International Ship Security Conference , worked for many years on the board of directors of the shipbuilding company and headed the marine technology committee there. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Board of Germanischer Lloyd and heads its marine technology working group.

In the area of ​​dismantling offshore platforms, he was appointed to international supervisory bodies - for example, to the scientific advisory board for the dismantling of the Ekofisk field ( ConocoPhillips ) and the Brent field ( Shell ).

On June 27, 2008, a celebratory colloquium took place on his retirement .

Awards

  • 2005 - Prize for Maritime Technology from the Technologie-Region KERN eV for his life's work in the field of marine technology
  • 2006 - SOBENA International Reward from Sociedad Brasileira de Engenharia Naval (for outstanding scientific contributions in the field of ship and marine technology).
  • In 2006/2007 he was nominated as a Georg Weinblum Memorial Lecturer for outstanding achievements in the field of hydrodynamics.

Publications

  • GF Clauss, E. Lehmann, C. Östergaard: Marine technical constructions . Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York Paris Tokyo 1988, ISBN 3-540-18964-5 .
  • GF Clauss, E. Lehmann, C. Östergaard: Offshore Structures. Volume 1: Conceptual Design . Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York Paris Tokyo 1992, ISBN 3-540-19709-5 .
  • GF Clauss, E. Lehmann, C. Östergaard: Offshore Structures. Volume 2: Strength and Safety for Structural Design . Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York Paris Tokyo 1994, ISBN 3-540-19770-2 .
  • G. Clauss: The Taming of the Shrew: Tailoring Freak Wave Sequences for Seakeeping Tests . In: Journal of Ship Research . Volume 52, No. 3, 2008
  • G. Clauss: Tsunamis, monster waves and other sea monsters . In: Lecture at the 100th Annual General Meeting of the Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft eV November 17, 2005, Berlin, Germany
  • R. Bronsart, G. Clauss: mar-ing - The Network of German Universities for a joint NAOE Master Program . In: 25th OMAE - International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering June 4-9, 2006, Hamburg, Germany
  • G. Clauss: The Conquest of the Inner Space - Challenges and Innovations in Offshore Technology . In: Marine Systems & Ocean Technology, Journal of SOBENA. Volume 3, No. 1, June 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Günther Clauss, Eike Lehmann, Carsten Östergaard: Offshore Structures . Volume I: Conceptual Design and Hydromechanics. Springer, London 1992, ISBN 978-1-4471-3195-3 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4471-3193-9 (English, springer.com [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Department of ship and marine technology at the TU Berlin. 2009, archived from the original on December 21, 2008 . ;
  2. ↑ Faculty V: Traffic and Machine Systems. (pdf) TU Berlin, accessed on March 31, 2019 (faculty brochure with foreword by the dean).
  3. ↑ Publications. TU Berlin, 2016, accessed on March 31, 2019 .
  4. ↑ mar-ing network for ship and marine technology. Archived from the original on May 15, 2010 ; accessed on August 6, 2020 .
  5. ^ Günther Clauss retired. In: TU intern 4/2008. April 14, 2008, accessed March 31, 2019 .
  6. ↑ On the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Günther Clauss: Invitation to the festive colloquium. TU Berlin, June 19, 2008, accessed on March 31, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Ramona Ehret: Prize for Maritime Technology to TU professor . Technische Universität Berlin, Press Release of May 9, 2005, accessed on July 6, 2020.
  8. ^ G. Clauss: The Conquest of the Inner Space - Challenges and Innovations in Offshore Technology . In: Marine Systems & Ocean Technology, Journal of SOBENA . tape 3 , no. 1 . Rio de Janeiro, Brasil June 2007 (English, tu-berlin.de [PDF]).
  9. ^ Günther F. Clauss honored as Georg Weinblum Lecturer. (PDF; 134 kB) 2007, archived from the original on May 28, 2011 (English). ;
personal data
SURNAME Clauss, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clauss, Günther F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and professor of ship and marine technology
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich