Martin Grabe is heading the Rarefied Flows group in the Spacecraft Department in the DLR Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Göttingen.
After graduating from the Technical University Dresden in 2008 (Mechanical / Aerospace Engineering), he joined the scientific staff of DLR to develop the numerical and experimental capacity of the department in the field of Rarefied Gas Dynamics. Dr. Grabe received his doctoral degree from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2017.
In DLR, Dr. Grabe is responsible for the DLR High-Vacuum Plume Test Facility (STG-CT) with its subsidiary vacuum chambers, and for the development of software to model the rarefied flow in and about engineering-scale configurations.
Research interests
- orbital thruster plume expansion and impingement
- plume-induced contamination and molecular transport
- Satellite aerodynamics
- Numerical methods for rarefied flows
RGD topics
- Jets and Plumes
- Experimental Techniques for Non-equilibrium Flows
- Vacuum Technology
- DSMC and Related Simulations
- Numerical Methods for Kinetic Equations
- High-performance Computing in RGD
- Space Vehicle Aerodynamics
- Multiscale Modelling
- Non-equilibrium Reacting Flows