• since 05/2018 Chief Executive Officer, ZARM Drop Tower Operations and Service Company
  • since 03/2016 Director of the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM), Full Professor for Fluid Mechanics, University of Bremen, Germany
  • 12/2011 to 2/2016 Professor for Simulation of Nano and Microflows at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  • 10/2008 to 11/2011 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
  • 08/2006 to 05/2008 Visiting Scholar School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the Arizona State University, USA
  • 01/2005 to 10/2008 Research Assistant at the Department of Applied Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • 2008 PhD Applied Physics and Scientific Simulation at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
  • 2004 M.Sc. Mathematics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain
  • 2018 Richard-von-Mises-Prize of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM)
  • 2009 Young Scientist Award European Mechanics Society (Euromech)
  • 2005 Doctoral Fellowship Spanish Ministry of Education and Innovation
  • 2004 Graduation Prize of the Department of Mathematics (UAB)

The list below shows the latest 25 publications of this research group. For the complete, searchable list of ZARM publications, please click more

2025

Morón, Daniel; Vela-Martín, Alberto; Avila, Marc
Predictability of decay events in transitional wall-bounded flows
, Journal of Physics: Conference SeriesVolume2753, Page 012009
Publisher: IOP Publishing
2025

2024

Simonini, Alessia; Dreyer, Michael; Urbano, Annafederica; Sanfedino, Francesco; Himeno, Takehiro; Behruzi, Philipp; Avila, Marc; Pinho, Jorge; Peveroni, Laura; Gouriet, Jean-Baptiste
Cryogenic propellant management in space: open challenges and perspectives
npj Microgravity, 10 (1) :34
2024
ISSN: 2373-8065

Vela-Martín, Alberto; Avila, Marc
Large-scale patterns set the predictability limit of extreme events in Kolmogorov flow
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 986 :A2
2024
ISSN: 0022-1120

Ramalho, Tiago P; Baumgartner, Vincent; Kunst, Nils; Rodrigues, David; Bohuon, Emma; Leroy, Basile; Pillot, Guillaume; Heinicke, Christiane; Kerzenmacher, Sven; Avila, Marc
Resource-efficiency of cyanobacterium production on Mars: Assessment and paths forward
Algal Research, 84 :103801
2024
ISSN: 2211-9264

Morón, Daniel; Avila, Marc
Turbulent puffs in transitional pulsatile pipe flow at moderate pulsation amplitudes
Physical Review Fluids, 9 (2) :024601
2024

2023

Schikarski, Tobias; Trzenschiok, Holger; Avila, Marc; Peukert, Wolfgang
Impact of solvent properties on the precipitation of active pharmaceutical ingredients
Powder Technology, 415 :118032
2023
ISSN: 0032-5910

Feldmann, Daniel; Borrero-Echeverry, Daniel; Burin, Michael J; Avila, Kerstin; Avila, Marc
Routes to turbulence in Taylor–Couette flow
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 381 (2246) :20220114
2023
ISSN: 1364-503X

2022

Endres, Stefan Christian; Avila, Marc; Mädler, Lutz
A discrete differential geometric formulation of multiphase surface interfaces for scalable multiphysics equilibrium simulations
Chemical Engineering Science, 257 :117681
2022
ISSN: 0009-2509

Morón, Daniel; Feldmann, Daniel; Avila, Marc
Effect of waveform on turbulence transition in pulsatile pipe flow
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 948 :A20
2022
ISSN: 0022-1120

Schikarski, Tobias; Avila, Marc; Peukert, Wolfgang
En route towards a comprehensive dimensionless representation of precipitation processes
Chemical Engineering Journal, 428 :131984
2022
ISSN: 1385-8947

Li, Huixin; Fischer, Andreas; Avila, Marc; Xu, Duo
Measurement error of tracer-based velocimetry in single-phase turbulent flows with inhomogeneous refractive indices
Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 136 :110681
2022
ISSN: 0894-1777

Vela-Martín, Alberto; Avila, Marc
Memoryless drop breakup in turbulence
Science Advances, 8 (50) :eabp9561
2022
ISSN: 2375-2548

Meyer, Florian; Eigenbrod, Christian; Wagner, Volker; Paa, Wolfgang; Hermanson, James C; Ando, Shion; Avila, Marc
Oxygen droplet combustion in hydrogen under microgravity conditions
Combustion and Flame, 241 :112081
2022
ISSN: 0010-2180

Schikarski, Tobias; Avila, Marc; Trzenschiok, Holger; Güldenpfennig, Andreas; Peukert, Wolfgang
Quantitative modeling of precipitation processes
Chemical Engineering Journal, 444 :136195
2022
ISSN: 1385-8947

2021

Verseux, Cyprien; Heinicke, Christiane; Ramalho, Tiago P; Determann, Jonathan; Duckhorn, Malte; Smagin, Michael; Avila, Marc
A low-pressure, N2/CO2 atmosphere is suitable for Cyanobacterium-based life-support systems on Mars
Frontiers in Microbiology, 12 :67
2021
ISSN: 1664-302X

Gasow, Stefan; Kuznetsov, Andrey V; Avila, Marc; Jin, Yan
A macroscopic two-length-scale model for natural convection in porous media driven by a species-concentration gradient
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 926 :A8
2021
ISSN: 0022-1120

Li, Huixin; Avila, Marc; Xu, Duo
A single-camera synthetic Schlieren method for the measurement of free liquid surfaces
Experiments in Fluids, 62 :1-15
2021
ISSN: 0723-4864

Vela-Martín, Alberto; Avila, Marc
Deformation of drops by outer eddies in turbulence
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 929 :A38
2021
ISSN: 0022-1120

Plana, Carlos; Song, Baofang; Avila, Marc
Direct numerical simulation of two-phase pipe flow: influence of the domain length on the flow regime
International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 144 :103786
2021
ISSN: 0301-9322

Tielke, J; Maas, M; Castillo, M; Rezwan, K; Avila, M
Statistical analysis of thermal conductivity experimentally measured in water-based nanofluids
Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 477 (2250) :20210222
2021
ISSN: 1364-5021

2020

Gasow, Stefan; Lin, Zhe; Zhang, Hao Chun; Kuznetsov, Andrey V; Avila, Marc; Jin, Yan
Effects of pore scale on the macroscopic properties of natural convection in porous media
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 891
2020
ISSN: 0022-1120

Xu, Duo; Song, Baofang; Avila, Marc
Non-modal transient growth of disturbances in pulsatile and oscillatory pipe flow
arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.04616
2020

Xu, Duo; Varshney, Atul; Ma, Xingyu; Song, Baofang; Riedl, Michael; Avila, Marc; Hof, Björn
Nonlinear hydrodynamic instability and turbulence in pulsatile flow
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (21) :11233-11239
2020
ISSN: 0027-8424

López, Jose Manuel; Feldmann, Daniel; Rampp, Markus; Vela-Martín, Alberto; Shi, Liang; Avila, Marc
nsCouette–A high-performance code for direct numerical simulations of turbulent Taylor–Couette flow
SoftwareX, 11 :100395
2020
ISSN: 2352-7110

Xu, Duo; Heil, Matthias; Seeböck, Thomas; Avila, Marc
Resonances in Pulsatile Channel Flow with an Elastic Wall
Physical Review Letters, 125 (25) :254501
2020

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