Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. e. h. Wolfgang Wagner - Emeritus

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The Chair of Thermodynamics had been headed by Prof. Wagner from 1975 to 2006.

During this time, the research fields listed below had been worked on. The fields "Equations of State" and "Software Development" had been continued to be worked on by Prof. Wagner until the end of 2020. Since then the further development and the distribution of the software is done by the engineering office Dr.-Ing. N. Kurzeja.

Equations of State

Development of equations of state for pure fluid substances and mixtures.

Software Development

Development of software for the calculation of thermodynamic properties (state variables) from equations of state for scientific and industrial applications.

Precision density measurement systems
Development of density measurement methods and design of precision densimeters (e.g. two-sinker densimeters).

pρT-data
Measurements of the density (pρT-data) of gases and liquids over wide ranges of temperature and pressure.

Viscosity-density measuring apparatus
Design of an apparatus for combined measurements of viscosity and density of gases.

Magnetic suspension balances
Development of special magnetic suspension balances for the measurement of thermophysical properties, e.g. density, viscosity, adsorption, solubility, etc.

Critical point
High precision density measurements to investigate the special state behavior of pure fluid substances directly at the critical point.