Herbert Oertel

Herbert Oertel (born December 8, 1944 in Eberhardzell , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German physicist , engineer and university professor specializing in fluid mechanics .

Life

Herbert Oertel studied physics at the University of Freiburg from 1965 to 1971 and received his doctorate in engineering. at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) . After his habilitation in 1979, he was appointed director of the Institute for Theoretical Fluid Mechanics at the German Research and Experimental Institute in Göttingen . In 1989 he received the call to the chair of Hermann Schlichting at the Technical University of Braunschweig and directed the Institute of Fluid Mechanics until 1994. It was followed by the appointed Professor of Fluid Mechanics and professor at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), where he developed the Institute of Fluid Mechanics to when he retired in 2010.

His scientific work includes the sub-areas of fluid mechanics aerodynamics , aerothermodynamics , bio- flow mechanics , gas dynamics , boundary-layer flows, convection flows as well as gas-kinetic and continuum mechanical methods of numerical fluid mechanics and optical flow measurement technology . In the Fluid Mechanics College , more than one hundred doctoral and post-doctoral students were trained together with research institutions and industry. He is the founder of the fluid mechanics textbook series and editor of the standard work on fluid mechanics Ludwig Prandtl - Guide through fluid mechanics .

As a visiting professor he has taught in Beijing, Canberra, New Haven, Sao Paulo and Tokyo.

Honors (selection)

• 1980: Best paper award American Society of Mechanical Engineers and American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• 1981: Lecturer Prize from the Carl Freudenberg Foundation
• 1987: Otto Lilienthal Prize of the DFVLR
• 1991: Honorary Professor at the Beijing Aerospace University
• 1994: 37th Ludwig Prandtl memorial lecture by the German Aerospace Society
• 1997: JSPS Award from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Publications

• H. Oertel, M. Böhle, T. Reviol: Fluid Mechanics. 7th edition, SpringerVieweg, Wiesbaden 2015.
• H. Oertel, M. Böhle: Exercise book fluid mechanics. 8th edition, SpringerVieweg, Wiesbaden 2012.
• H. Oertel, S. Ruck: Bioströmungsmechanik. 2nd edition, SpringerVieweg, Wiesbaden 2013.
• E. Laurien, H. Oertel: Numerical fluid mechanics. 6th edition, SpringerVieweg, Wiesbaden 2018.
• H. Oertel: Aerothermodynamics. Springer, Berlin 1994; KIT Science Publishing, Karlsruhe 2005.
• H. Oertel, J. Delfs: Fluid mechanical instabilities. Springer, Berlin 1996; KIT Science Publishing, Karlsruhe 2005.
• Herbert Oertel: Introduction to fluid mechanics . Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 2005, ISBN 3-937300-81-3 , doi : 10.5445 / KSP / 1000003548 (original published in Verlag Vieweg, Braunschweig, 2001).
• H. Oertel: Flow Control. KIT Science Publishing, Karlsruhe 2010.
• H. Oertel, S. Krittian: Modeling the Human Cardiac Fluid Mechanics. 4th edition KIT Science Publishing, Karlsruhe 2011.
• H. Oertel (ed.): Prandtl guide through fluid mechanics . 14th edition. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2017, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-08627-5 .
• H. Oertel ed .: Prandtl-Essentials of Fluid Mechanics. 3rd edition, Springer, New York 2010. (Russian translation. R&C Dynamics, Moscow 2007. Chinese translation. Science Press, Beijing 2008.)

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Oertel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Oertel, Herbert: 44 works in 268 publications. worldcat.org 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Wauer: Mechanics and their specialist representatives at the University of Karlsruhe: From the beginnings to the threshold of the 21st century . KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe 2017, ISBN 978-3-7315-0515-0 .