Scope and History

photograph showing all members of AOT-TP in front of the institute entrance in July 20251/8
photograph showing all members of AOT-TP in front of the institute entrance in October 20242/8
Photograph of AOT-TP team in July 20233/8
Photograph of AOT-TP team in September 2022; the group members are standing with adequate mutual distance in front of the entrance door of the institute4/8
Photograph of AOT-TP team in September 2022; the group members wear masks and are standing in front of the entrance door of the institute5/8
Photograph of AOT-TP team in June 2021; the group members are standing with adequate mutual distance in front of the entrance door of the institute6/8
Photograph of AOT-TP team in June 2021; the group members wear masks and are standing in front of the entrance door of the institute7/8
Photograph of AOT-TP team standing in front of the insititute entrance in July 20198/8

The Institute of Advanced Optical Technologies – Thermophysical Properties (AOT−TP) headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Paul Fröba has been established in 2015 as an independent unit within the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBI) and is located in the Röthelheimcampus of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The institute and its staff members focus on the development and application of various conventional and optical methods for the accurate determination of thermophysical properties of fluids of interest for chemical and energy engineering. Besides the experimental approach, the expertise of the institute also includes the theoretical calculation of thermophysical properties based on molecular dynamics (MD) simulations as well as the development of prediction schemes for engineering practice. Furthermore, activities related to heat transfer with particular focus on phase change are in the scope of the institute. AOT-TP is closely related with the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT).

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