Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter F. Pelz

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born in 1967
1998-2002 Group spokesperson for fluid dynamics, Freudenberg Research Services in Weinheim
2003-2006 Head of Advanced Chassis Development, Vibracoustic SE in Hamburg
since 2006 Professor of Mechanical Engineering, TU Darmstadt
  • Sustainable Systems Design (Efficiency Scaling, Control Valves, Positive Displacement Pumps)
  • Anticipation of Water Demand Scenarios for the Cities of the future & Resilience of Urban Water Supply Systems
  • Multi-agent Systems & Mathematical Optimisation / TOR
  • Cavitation and Generic Flow in Turbomachinery and Systems (Cavitation Dynamics, Cavitation Erosion, Partial Load Recirculation)
  • Availability of Fluid Power Systems (Transient operated Hydraulic Pump Systems, Rotor Dynamic Influence of media-lubricated journal Bearings)
  • Influence of Molecular Structure, Additives and Surface Roughness on Wall Slip
  • Designing with Fluids (Energy Generation from Oscillating Systems, Porous Materials to increase Energy Density in Gas Accumulators)
Selection of the top 10 publications
Hatzissawidis, G., Kuhr, M. M. G., & Pelz, P. F. (2025). The transition from re-entrant flow-driven to shockwave-driven cloud cavitation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1004, A13. doi:10.1017/jfm.2024.1224
Meck, M., & Pelz, P. F. (2024). A set-covering approach to minimize the variety of standard chemical process pumps in equipment pools. Computers & Chemical Engineering, 185, 108673. doi:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2024.108673
Schmitz, C., & Pelz, P. F. (2023). Optimal control of tidal flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 962, A37. doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.172
Pelz, P. F., Corneli, T., Mehrnia, S., & Kuhr, M. M. G. (2022). Temperature-dependent wall slip of Newtonian lubricants. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 948, A8. doi:10.1017/jfm.2022.629
Pelz, P. F., Leise, P., & Meck, M. (2021). Sustainable aircraft design — A review on optimization methods for electric propulsion with derived optimal number of propulsors. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 123, 100714. doi:10.1016/j.paerosci.2021.100714
Pelz, P. F., Metzler, M., Schmitz, C., & Müller, T. M. (2020). Upper limit for tidal power with lateral bypass. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 889, A32. doi:10.1017/jfm.2020.99
Pelz, P. F., Friesen, J., & Hartig, J. (2019). Similar size of slums caused by a Turing instability of migration behavior. Physical review E, 99(2), 022302. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.99.022302
Pelz, P. F., Keil, T., & Groß, T. F. (2017). The transition from sheet to cloud cavitation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 817, 439–454. doi:10.1017/jfm.2017.75
Groß, T. F., & Pelz, P. F. (2017). Diffusion-driven nucleation from surface nuclei in hydrodynamic cavitation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 830, 138–164. doi:10.1017/jfm.2017.587
Cloos, F.-J., Stapp, D., & Pelz, P. F. (2017). Swirl boundary layer and flow separation at the inlet of a rotating pipe. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 811, 350–371. doi:10.1017/jfm.2016.734
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since 2012 Founding Partner of Industrial Science GmbH
2013-2021 Spokesperson for the Collaborative Research Centre “Mastering Uncertainty in Load-Carrying Systems in Mechanical Engineering”
since 2015 German Expert in the German mirror committee CEN/TC 156/WG 17
since 2017 Member of the Global Fluid Power Society (GFPS)
2019-2020 Dean of Studies of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
since 2020 Deputy spokesperson for NFDI4Ing – National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Science
since 2021 Spokesperson for the Training & Education section (edutrain) of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)
since 2021 Founder and spokesperson of the research field Energy & Environment (E&E) at TU Darmstadt
since 2022 Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Diamond Open Access Journal ing.grid – FAIR Data Management in Engineering Sciences
since 2023 Vice President for Digitalisation, Sustainability and Infrastructure, TU Darmstadt
since 2025 Spokesperson NFDI4ING