Welcome to the Physics of Fluids department

A department which belongs to the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Twente cooperating in the TechMed Research Institute and is part of the Max Planck - University of Twente Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics and the Twente Centre for Scientific Computing and the JM Burgers centre. The Physics of Fuids department is also actively working on topics related to climate change and the energy transition.

Full-time

Part-time

Prof. Dr. Detlef Lohse
Chair holder
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Martin van der Hoef
Numerical simulation of particulate two-phase flow
Prof. Dr. Devaraj van der Meer
Physics of granular matter and interstitial fluids
Prof. Dr. Ir. Chris de Korte
Medical ultrasound imaging
Prof. Dr. Jacco Snoeijer
Capillary flows and elasticity
Prof. Dr. Marjolein van der Linden
Fundamentals of inkjet printing
Prof. Dr. Michel Versluis
Physical and medical acoustics
Prof. Dr. Andrea Prosperetti
Berkhoff professor
Adj. Prof. Dr. Alvaro Marin
Flowing soft matter
Prof. Dr. Chao Sun
Turbulence and multiphase flow
Adj. Prof. Dr. Richard Stevens
Numerical simulations of turbulence
Prof. Dr. Roberto Verzicco
Direct numerical simulations of turbulence
Adj. Prof. Dr. Sander Huisman
Multiphase flows
Prof. Dr. Xuehua Zhang
Surface and colloidal science and engineering
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Corinna Maaß
Active Fluids
Adj. Prof. Dr. Dominik Krug
Turbulence boundary layers and multiphase flow
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Guillaume Lajoinie
Microscale flow, phase-change, and acoustics

Professors Emeriti

Dr. Christian Diddens
Numerical simulation of multi-component droplets
Prof. Dr. Ir. Leen van Wijngaarden
Multiphase flow, acoustics, gravity waves


With over a 100 members in our department we cover a wide range of topics in our 16 labs and use high-performance computing facilities all over the world, see our Research page. The group receives external research funding from NWO, ERC, EU, and industrial partners.

Upcoming events:

Wednesday April 9th, 16:00 – 17:00SeminarSander goes low Reynolds number
Monday April 14th, 13:00 – 15:00Bachelor defenseThe effect of time variable flow rate on solid melting rates
Wednesday April 16th, 11:00 – 13:00Master defenseFast ultrasound scanning for 3D reconstruction whole breast
Wednesday April 16th, 16:00 – 17:00SeminarDancing droplets: the physics of post-impact retraction dynamics
Wednesday April 23rd, 16:00 – 17:00Seminartba
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