Dr. Norbert Muller- Turbomachinery at Michigan State University

<body> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them. Here is the No Frames version of this page.</p> <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="656" border="0"> <tr> <td> <img src="http://www.egr.msu.edu/mueller/NMimages/FacMEHeader.gif" border="0" width="656" height="89"></td> </tr> </table> <table height="225" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="10" width="656" bgColor="#ffffff"> <tr> <td align="left" width="295" height="200"> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><b> <font face="Arial" size="6">Dr. Norbert Müller</font></b> </p> <p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><font face="Arial"><b> <font color="#008000" size="4">Assistant Professor</font> </b></font></p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"> <b><font face="Arial" size="3"> <font color="#000000"> <i>Address: </i>2455 Engineering Building<br>                   East Lansing, Michigan, USA<br> <i>Phone:    </i>(517) 432-9139<br> <i>Fax:         </i>(517) 353-1750<br> </font> <i><font color="#000000">Email: </font>    </i><a href="mailto:mueller@egr.msu.edu?subject=Turbomachinery Laboratory">mueller@egr.msu.edu</a></font></b> </td> <td vAlign="top" align="center" width="277" height="185"> <p align="left"> <img border="0" src="mullerfinal.jpg" width="173" height="202" alt="Dr. Norbert Müller of Michigan State University"> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellPadding="16" width="656" bgColor="#ffffff"> <tr> <td width="656"> <p><font face="Times New Roman" color="#006E00" size="5"><b>Research Interests:</b></font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Turbomachinery, centrifugal compressors </font> </li> <li><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wave Rotors</font> </li> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Refrigeration and HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) with natural refrigerants </font> </li> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Micro-fabricated energy systems such as Brayton and Rankine cycle devices, heat exchangers and fuel cells </font> </li> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Highly efficient and environmentally friendly energy conversion systems, including the use of solar, wind, tidal, geothermal energy and clean fuels </font> </li> </font> </ul> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px"><b><font face="Times New Roman" color="#006E00" size="5">Laboratory</font></b> </p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">The <a href="NMlab.htm" target="_self"> Turbomachinery Laboratory</a> is located in 2500 EB.</font></p> <p><b><font face="Times New Roman" color="#006E00" size="5">Selected Publications</font></b> </p> <ul> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Müller N., <a href="http://www.egr.msu.edu/me/people/faculty/vita/mueller/ASHRAE#4475.pdf"> Design of compressor impellers for water as a refrigerant</a>.<br> ASHRAE Transaction 2001 Vol. 107, pp. 214-222.</font> </li> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Müller N. and Fréchette L. G., <a href="http://www.egr.msu.edu/me/people/faculty/vita/mueller/ITERM2002-1243.pdf"> Optimization and design guidelines for high flux microchannel heat sinks for liquid and gaseous single phase flow</a>. ITHERM 2002, May 29 – June 1, 2002, San Diego.</font> </li> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Müller N., <a href="http://www.egr.msu.edu/me/people/faculty/vita/mueller/TUDp235-244.pdf"> Ein schneller Algorithmus für Entwurf und Berechnung von Laufrädern mit Radialfaserschaufeln </a>(A fast algorithm for design and flow calculation of radial-line impellers). in Klingenberg J., Heller W.: Beiträge zur Strömungsmechanik, TU Dresden, 2001, pp. 235-244.</font> </li> </ul> <p><b><font face="Times New Roman" color="#006E00" size="5">Additional Information:</font></b> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Norbert Müller is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. from <a href="http://www.tu-dresden.de/homepagejb.htm" target="_blank"> Technische Universität Dresden</a>, Germany in 1999.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">His teaching interests are in the thermal-fluid science and engineering, gas and fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, turbomachinery, energy systems, refrigeration and HVAC and design.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">His research focuses on <a href="projects_turbo.htm" target="main"> turbomachinery</a>, <a href="projects_waverotor.htm" target="main">wave-rotors</a>, <a href="projects_turbo.htm" target="main"> centrifugal compressors</a>, <a href="projects_refrigerant.htm" target="main"> refrigeration systems using water as refrigerant</a>, <a href="projects_microenergy.htm" target="main"> micro-fabricated energy systems</a> such as Brayton and Rankine cycle devices and heat exchangers. From 1993 to 1999 he worked for the industrial research center <a href="http://www.ilkdresden.de/pub/b/english.asp" target="_blank"> Institut für Luft- und Kältetechnik (ILK) Dresden</a>, the largest refrigeration & HVAC research center of its kind in Germany. There he developed a strong background in industrial research. He also worked in Aerospace for <a href="http://www.mtu.de/mtu" target="_blank"> Daimler Chrysler in Munich, Germany</a>. Just prior to joining Michigan State University he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor for Turbomachinery and a Research Scientist at <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mechanical/" target="_blank"> Columbia University</a> in New York, working on <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mechanical/MEL/index.html" target="_blank"> micro-energy systems</a>.</font><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><a href="NMcurrentprojects.htm" target="main"> <img border="0" src="projects_grbkgd.bmp" width="128" height="43" alt="Projects"></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"> </font><a href="NMpublications.htm" target="main"> <img border="0" src="publications_grbrd.bmp" width="128" height="43" alt="Publications"></a> <a target="main" href="NMlabmembers.htm"> <img border="0" src="students_grbrd.bmp" alt="Laboratory Students" width="128" height="43"></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"> </font><a href="http://www.egr.msu.edu/me" target="main"> <img border="0" src="MEdept_gr18.bmp" width="128" height="43"></a></td> </tr> </table>  <table borderColor="#008000" cellSpacing="1" cellPadding="8" width="656" bgColor="#ffffff" border="2"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">Last revision: <i> April 14, 2003</i></font> </td> <td> <p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">Send your comments to: <i><a href="mailto:hansen36@msu.edu">webmaster</a> </i></font></td> </tr> </table> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them. Here is the No Frames version of this page.</p> <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="656" border="0"> <tr> <td> <img src="http://www.egr.msu.edu/mueller/NMimages/FacMEHeader.gif" border="0" width="656" height="89"></td> </tr> </table> <table height="225" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="10" width="656" bgColor="#ffffff"> <tr> <td align="left" width="295" height="200"> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><b> <font face="Arial" size="6">Dr. Norbert Müller</font></b> </p> <p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"><font face="Arial"><b> <font color="#008000" size="4">Assistant Professor</font> </b></font></p> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%"> <b><font face="Arial" size="3"> <font color="#000000"> <i>Address: </i>2455 Engineering Building<br>                   East Lansing, Michigan, USA<br> <i>Phone:    </i>(517) 432-9139<br> <i>Fax:         </i>(517) 353-1750<br> </font> <i><font color="#000000">Email: </font>    </i><a href="mailto:mueller@egr.msu.edu?subject=Turbomachinery Laboratory">mueller@egr.msu.edu</a></font></b> </td> <td vAlign="top" align="center" width="277" height="185"> <p align="left"> <img border="0" src="mullerfinal.jpg" width="173" height="202" alt="Dr. Norbert Müller of Michigan State University"> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellPadding="16" width="656" bgColor="#ffffff"> <tr> <td width="656"> <p><font face="Times New Roman" color="#006E00" size="5"><b>Research Interests:</b></font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Turbomachinery, centrifugal compressors </font> </li> <li><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wave Rotors</font> </li> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Refrigeration and HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) with natural refrigerants </font> </li> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Micro-fabricated energy systems such as Brayton and Rankine cycle devices, heat exchangers and fuel cells </font> </li> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Highly efficient and environmentally friendly energy conversion systems, including the use of solar, wind, tidal, geothermal energy and clean fuels </font> </li> </font> </ul> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px"><b><font face="Times New Roman" color="#006E00" size="5">Laboratory</font></b> </p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">The <a href="NMlab.htm" target="_self"> Turbomachinery Laboratory</a> is located in 2500 EB.</font></p> <p><b><font face="Times New Roman" color="#006E00" size="5">Selected Publications</font></b> </p> <ul> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Müller N., <a href="http://www.egr.msu.edu/me/people/faculty/vita/mueller/ASHRAE#4475.pdf"> Design of compressor impellers for water as a refrigerant</a>.<br> ASHRAE Transaction 2001 Vol. 107, pp. 214-222.</font> </li> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Müller N. and Fréchette L. G., <a href="http://www.egr.msu.edu/me/people/faculty/vita/mueller/ITERM2002-1243.pdf"> Optimization and design guidelines for high flux microchannel heat sinks for liquid and gaseous single phase flow</a>. ITHERM 2002, May 29 – June 1, 2002, San Diego.</font> </li> <li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Müller N., <a href="http://www.egr.msu.edu/me/people/faculty/vita/mueller/TUDp235-244.pdf"> Ein schneller Algorithmus für Entwurf und Berechnung von Laufrädern mit Radialfaserschaufeln </a>(A fast algorithm for design and flow calculation of radial-line impellers). in Klingenberg J., Heller W.: Beiträge zur Strömungsmechanik, TU Dresden, 2001, pp. 235-244.</font> </li> </ul> <p><b><font face="Times New Roman" color="#006E00" size="5">Additional Information:</font></b> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Norbert Müller is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. from <a href="http://www.tu-dresden.de/homepagejb.htm" target="_blank"> Technische Universität Dresden</a>, Germany in 1999.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">His teaching interests are in the thermal-fluid science and engineering, gas and fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, turbomachinery, energy systems, refrigeration and HVAC and design.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">His research focuses on <a href="projects_turbo.htm" target="main"> turbomachinery</a>, <a href="projects_waverotor.htm" target="main">wave-rotors</a>, <a href="projects_turbo.htm" target="main"> centrifugal compressors</a>, <a href="projects_refrigerant.htm" target="main"> refrigeration systems using water as refrigerant</a>, <a href="projects_microenergy.htm" target="main"> micro-fabricated energy systems</a> such as Brayton and Rankine cycle devices and heat exchangers. From 1993 to 1999 he worked for the industrial research center <a href="http://www.ilkdresden.de/pub/b/english.asp" target="_blank"> Institut für Luft- und Kältetechnik (ILK) Dresden</a>, the largest refrigeration & HVAC research center of its kind in Germany. There he developed a strong background in industrial research. He also worked in Aerospace for <a href="http://www.mtu.de/mtu" target="_blank"> Daimler Chrysler in Munich, Germany</a>. Just prior to joining Michigan State University he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor for Turbomachinery and a Research Scientist at <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mechanical/" target="_blank"> Columbia University</a> in New York, working on <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mechanical/MEL/index.html" target="_blank"> micro-energy systems</a>.</font><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><a href="NMcurrentprojects.htm" target="main"> <img border="0" src="projects_grbkgd.bmp" width="128" height="43" alt="Projects"></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"> </font><a href="NMpublications.htm" target="main"> <img border="0" src="publications_grbrd.bmp" width="128" height="43" alt="Publications"></a> <a target="main" href="NMlabmembers.htm"> <img border="0" src="students_grbrd.bmp" alt="Laboratory Students" width="128" height="43"></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"> </font><a href="http://www.egr.msu.edu/me" target="main"> <img border="0" src="MEdept_gr18.bmp" width="128" height="43"></a></td> </tr> </table>  <table borderColor="#008000" cellSpacing="1" cellPadding="8" width="656" bgColor="#ffffff" border="2"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">Last revision: <i> April 14, 2003</i></font> </td> <td> <p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">Send your comments to: <i><a href="mailto:hansen36@msu.edu">webmaster</a> </i></font></td> </tr> </table> </body>