Krüger, T.; Varnik, F.; Raabe, D.: Second-order convergence of the deviatoric stress tensor in the standard Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook lattice Boltzmann method. Physical Review E 82 (025701) (2010)
Ayodele, S. G.; Varnik, F.; Raabe, D.: Effect of aspect ratio on transverse diffusive broadening: A lattice Boltzmann study. Physical Review E 80 (1), pp. 016304-1 - 016304-9 (2009)
Ayodele, S. G.; Varnik, F.; Raabe, D.: Transverse diffusive mixing of solutes in pressure driven microchannels: A Lattice Boltzmann study of the scaling laws. La Houille Blanche, International Water Journal 6, pp. 93 - 100 (2009)
Gross, M.; Varnik, F.; Raabe, D.: Fall and rise of small droplets on rough hydrophobic substrates. Europhysics Letters 88 (26002), pp. 26002-p1 - 26002-p6 (2009)
Varnik, F.; Raabe, D.: Scaling effects in microscale fluid flows at rough solid surfaces. Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 14, pp. 857 - 873 (2006)
Baschnagel, J.; Varnik, F.: Computer simulations of supercooled polymer melts in the bulk and in confined geometry. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17 (32), pp. R851 - R953 (2005)
Varnik, F.; Bocquet, L.; Barrat, L.-J.: A study of the static yield stress in a binary Lennard-Jones glass. The Journal of Chemical Physics 120 (6), pp. 2788 - 2801 (2004)
Baschnagel, J.; Meyer, H.; Varnik, F.; Metzger, S.; Aichele, M.; Müller, M.; Binder, K.: Computer Simulations of Polymers close to Solid Interfaces: Some Selected Topics. Special Issue of Interface Science: Polymers at Interfaces 11, pp. 159 - 173 (2003)
Varnik, F.; Baschnagel, J.; Binder, K.; Mareschal, M.: Confinement effects on the slow dynamics of a supercooled polymer melt: Rouse modes and the incoherent scattering function. European Physical Journal E 12 (167) (2003)
Hydrogen in aluminium can cause embrittlement and critical failure. However, the behaviour of hydrogen in aluminium was not yet understood. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung were able to locate hydrogen inside aluminium’s microstructure and designed strategies to trap the hydrogen atoms inside the microstructure. This can…
Biological materials in nature have a lot to teach us when in comes to creating tough bio-inspired designs. This project aims to explore the unknown impact mitigation mechanisms of the muskox head (ovibus moschatus) at several length scales and use this gained knowledge to develop a novel mesoscale (10 µm to 1000 µm) metamaterial that can mimic the…
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) of iron by marine sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) is studied electrochemically and surfaces of corroded samples have been investigated in a long-term project.
In this project we investigate the hydrogen distribution and desorption behavior in an electrochemically hydrogen-charged binary Ni-Nb model alloy. The aim is to study the role of the delta phase in hydrogen embrittlement of the Ni-base alloy 718.
We plan to investigate the rate-dependent tensile properties of 2D materials such as metal thin films and PbMoO4 (PMO) films by using a combination of a novel plan-view FIB based sample lift out method and a MEMS based in situ tensile testing platform inside a TEM.
This project aims to investigate the influence of grain boundaries on mechanical behavior at ultra-high strain rates and low temperatures. For this micropillar compressions on copper bi-crystals containing different grain boundaries will be performed.
Oxidation and corrosion of noble metals is a fundamental problem of crucial importance in the advancement of the long-term renewable energy concept strategy. In our group we use state-of-the-art electrochemical scanning flow cell (SFC) coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) setup to address the problem.
For understanding the underlying hydrogen embrittlement mechanism in transformation-induced plasticity steels, the process of damage evolution in a model austenite/martensite dual-phase microstructure following hydrogenation was investigated through multi-scale electron channelling contrast imaging and in situ optical microscopy.
We will investigate the electrothermomechanical response of individual metallic nanowires as a function of microstructural interfaces from the growth processes. This will be accomplished using in situ SEM 4-point probe-based electrical resistivity measurements and 2-point probe-based impedance measurements, as a function of mechanical strain and…