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Postal address

Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre
Cambridge University Engineering Department
Unit 26a Cambridge Science Park
Cambridge, CB4 0FP, UK

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Position

Research Associate

Affiliation

Dr Markus Gross

Dr Markus Gross joined the Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre in August 2004. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in July 2004 and was awarded the Henry Black prize for his thesis on the numerical simulation of laser materials processing. He received his first degree (BEng in Mechanical Engineering with Computer Aided Engineering - Honours of the first class) from Heriot-Watt as well, subsequently to transferring his studies (year one and two) from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.

Prior to his university education he spend two years in industry where he qualified as an industrial mechanic (production technology) in course of an apprenticeship. Next to his apprenticeship he received the qualification of industrial specialist for industry automation (IHK - the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce).

His main interest is computer simulation for engineering, with focus on discrete multi-physical modelling. He has several years of experience in the use of high performance computing (HPC) and received comprehensive training from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC). He will work closely with experimentalists at the IMRC and provide computer models for the next generation of manufacturing technology, currently developed at the IMRC.

Projects

• ftLMPs: the fully transient Laser Materials Processing simulation
• Modelling support to the Cold-Spray group

Resources

• Fluent 6.1 & Gambit
  
• MSC/Marc, MSC/Mentat, MSC/Dytran, MSC/Nastran, MSC/Patran
• Intel fortran,c,c++ compiler, performance diagnostic tools and math kernel library
  
• The usual open source packages

Collaborations

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Wolfgang H. Müller (TU-Berlin)

Recent publications

• On gas dynamics effects in the modelling of laser cutting processes
  Markus S Gross, Applied Mathematical Modelling accepted for publication
• 3-D simulation model for gas-assisted laser cutting
  Markus S Gross, Ian Black and Wolfgang H Müller, Lasers in Engineering 15 (1-2) 2005 129-146
• Determination of the lower complexity limit for laser cut quality modelling
  Markus S Gross, Ian Black and Wolfgang H Müller, Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 12 No 6 (November 2004) 1237-1249
• Computer simulation of the processing of engineering materials with lasers—theory and first applications
  M S Gross, I Black and W H Müller, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 36 No 7 (7 April 2003) 929-938