Thomas Kaempfer, Snow physics, Numerical Simulation, Skiing, Biking

ERDC-CRREL
72 Lyme Road
Hanover, NH 03755, USA

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Numerical Simulation of Solidification Processes,
Snow Microstructure and Properties,
and Snow Metamorphism

Phone: upon request

Work

Post-doc at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL): Studying heat and mass transfer in snow and other porous media using a combined microstructural continuum and discrete element approach. For more information, check out my snow research page.
Post-doc at the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF), in the Snowphysics team: Study of snow metamorphism and related physical properties of snow using computertomography and numerical simulation. For more information, check out my snow research page.
PhD (october 2002) at the Laboratoire de Simulation des Matériaux (former LMPH), Institute of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), with professor Michel Rappaz: Simulation of macrosegregation using an adaptive domain decomposition method. For more information, check out my PhD-Project page
Graduated from the EPFL, Institute of Mathematics, in 1998
Exchange student at the North Carolina State University (NCSU), with professor Pierre A. Gremaud
Curriculum vitae (pdf)