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| Detailed information |
| Original study plan |
Master's programme Mechatronics 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
| The course enables students to understand and reproduce the basic concepts of modeling actuators, various sensor classes and fluid dynamic systems. They can transfer these models to various technical and scientific tasks and generalize the results accordingly.
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| Skills |
Knowledge |
The students are able to
- model sensors and actuators in different application areas and transfer the results obtained to other scenarios (k5, k6),
- reproduce and use basic knowledge of fluid dynamics, microfluidics and multiphase flows to describe and analyze fluid dynamic systems (k3, k4, k5),
- understand and apply interface tracking algorithms to track boundary layers in multiphase flows (k4),
- understand and apply the basic methods of numerical simulation (finite elements, finite volumes) to model simple fluid dynamic systems (k5).
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Students acquire in-depth knowledge in the following areas:
- Basic principles of sensors and understanding of the “model concept”.
- Functionality of thermal, electromagnetic and mechanical actuators.
- Modeling of impedance spectra of various circuits and application of these models to microchannels.
- Fundamental principles of fluid dynamics, microfluidics and multiphase flows,
- Principles and applications of interface tracking algorithms such as the level set or phase field method for analyzing interfaces between two immiscible fluids
- Physical principles and applications of the electrical 1D model of microfluidics.
- Modeling and application of different sensor classes such as resistive or capacitive sensors.
- Numerical methods such as the finite element or finite volume method for solving complex modeling problems.
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| Criteria for evaluation |
Seminar lecture, modelling in computer software and verification of the result by experiment, final test
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| Methods |
Blackboard and slide lecture, seminar lecture, laboratory work
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| Language |
German, English if requested |
| Study material |
H.-R. Tränkler, L. M. Reindl, Sensortechnik, 2. Auflage, 2018.
J. Berthier, Micro-Drops and Digital Microfluidics, William Andrew, 2008.
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| Changing subject? |
No |
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