The DFG-Turbulence Unit coordinated from BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg (Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Egbers) since April 2010 has been evaluated as "excellent research" at the end 2012, becoming in this way funding of around two million Euros for the next three years. The partner universities and institutes are located in Cottbus, Ilmenau, Marburg, Erlangen and Klosterneuburg (Austria) gather around 30 people together researching on three fundamental flows that have been mostly separately studied: thermal convection in a cell heated from below (Rayleigh-Bénard), shear turbulence between two concentric rotating cylinders (Taylor-Couette), and pressure-driven turbulence in a pipe flow.

Turbulent transport and local dynamic processes near solid walls have been intensively studied in the last six years. A lot of brilliant scientific achievements (theory and experiment) were obtained on the three fundamental flows reflected by the 65 scientific papers with highlighted publications in Science, Nature, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics and Fluids, and Physical Review (for more information see Link). The data generated coming from peer-reviewed papers were organized and uploaded on the famous ERCOFTAC Database (Computational Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence Mechanics research group, University of Manchester, Link). From 90 contributions on the actual CLASSICAL ERCOFTAC COLLECTION, five contributions are coming from our research unit.