Bio
Inken Knop is a senior scientist at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics, where her research focuses on experimental icing research, the characterization of droplet clouds, and the development and validation of measurement techniques and numerical methods for investigating icing processes.
After completing her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and her master’s degree in renewable energy at the Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH), she moved to the Technische Universität Braunschweig. There, she began her research career by studying icing on wind turbines. She has worked on national and international research projects focused on the experimental and numerical investigation of icing processes on aircraft. Her research topics include, among others, the characterization of supercooled large droplet (SLD) conditions, the photogrammetric measurement of ice accretion, and the validation of numerical icing simulations.
Publications
- Bansmer, S. E., Baumert, A., Sattler, S., Knop, I., Leroy, D., Schwarzenboeck, A., et al. Design, Construction and Commissioning of the Braunschweig Icing Wind Tunnel. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11(6), 3221–3249, 2018. DOI: 10.5194/amt-11-3221-2018
- Knop, I., Bansmer, S. E., Hahn, V., & Voigt, C. Comparison of Different Droplet Measurement Techniques in the Braunschweig Icing Wind Tunnel. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 14(2), 1761–1781, 2021. DOI: 10.5194/amt-14-1761-2021
- Sotomayor-Zakharov, D., Radenac, E., Gallia, M., Guardone, A., & Knop, I. Statistical Analysis of the Surface Roughness on Aircraft Icing. Journal of Aircraft, 61(1), 245–256, 2024. DOI: 10.2514/1.C037451
- Sotomayor-Zakharov, D., Sobotta, B., & Knop, I. A Dynamic Collection Efficiency Formulation Implemented in the Icing Code DICEPS. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 217, 124590, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2023.124590
- Bora, V. R., Knop, I., Lucke, J., & Jurkat-Witschas, T. Instrumentation for Measuring Supercooled Large Droplet Cloud Distributions in Icing Wind Tunnels. AIAA Scitech 2023 Forum, Paper 2286, 2023. DOI: 10.2514/6.2023-2286
- Knobbe-Eschen, H., Stemberg, J., Abdellaoui, K., Altmikus, A., Knop, I., et al. Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Wind-Turbine Blade Aerodynamics in the Presence of Ice Accretion. AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, Paper 0805, 2019. DOI: 10.2514/6.2019-0805
- Baghel, A. P., Sotomayor-Zakharov, D., Knop, I., & Ortwein, H. P. Detailed Study of Photogrammetry Technique as a Valid Ice Accretion Measurement Method. International Conference on Icing of Aircraft, Engines, and Structures, 2023.
- Bora, V. R., Gallia, M., Knop, I., & Guardone, A. Investigation of the Influence of Aero-Thermal Non-Equilibrium Conditions of an SLD Cloud on Airfoil Icing. International Conference on Icing of Aircraft, Engines, and Structures, 2023.
Inken Knop's full list of publications can be found here.
