Horst Complex

prof.Dr.-Ing. W. Rohlfs (Wilko)

Full Professor
ET-TFE-HTT
Horst Complex N234
w.rohlfs@utwente.nl
+31534894859
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I am full professor in the Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering. In 2015 I finished my PhD on "Wave Characteristics of Falling Liquid Films under the Influence of Positive and Negative Inclination or Electrostatic Forces" at RWTH Aachen University for which I received the Friedrich Wilhelm Award. In 2014 I obtained a second PhD in economics on "Decision-Making under Multi-Dimensional Price Uncertainty for Long-Lived Energy Investments". In 2015, I was Post Doctoral Fellow in the research group of John Lienhard V at MIT, Cambridge. From 2015 to 2021 I was leader of the research group "Convective Heat Transfer" at RWTH Aachen University. In 2021, I was appointed as Full Professor in Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics at the University of Twente.

Expertise

  • Engineering

    • Heat Transfer
    • Fluid

  • Physics

    • Liquids
    • Simulation
    • Impingement
    • Cooling
    • Model
    • Region

Organisations

Ancillary activities

  • Self-employedConsultancy service
  • European CommissionEvaluation of proposals
  • TotalEnergiesConsultancy service (scientific advisor)

Publications

2025

Micro-CT investigation of urea crystal structures for frost analysis (2025)International journal of thermal sciences, 214. Article 109893. Labuschagne, A., Zhu, T. & Rohlfs, W.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2025.109893Diffusion-reaction modeling of CO2 absorption in core-shell hydrogel particles (2025)Results in Engineering, 26. Article 104766. Long, Y., Jiang, J., Smink, J. S., ten Elshof, J. E., Rohlfs, W., Visser, C. W. & Brilman, W.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2025.104766Thermal-hydrodynamic modeling and design for microchannel cold plates subjected to multiple heat sources (2025)Applied thermal engineering, 262. Article 125220. Kuiphuis, D. J. G., Terpstra, M. J., Wits, W. W. & Rohlfs, W.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.125220

2024

3D Printing of Electrically Conductive Silver Nanoparticle-Embedded Foams for Pressure Sensor Applications (2024)In 2024 IEEE Sensors (Proceedings of IEEE Sensors). IEEE. Kuang, G., Nguon, O. J., Mehrali, M., Ten Elshof, J. E., Rohlfs, W. & Visser, C. W.https://doi.org/10.1109/SENSORS60989.2024.10784698CO2 Adsorption by Core-shell Structured Hydrogel Particles Fabricated via In-air Microfluidics (2024)In Advances in Computational Heat and Mass Transfer: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer (ICCHMT 2023), 4-8 September, 2023, Düsseldorf, Germany - Volume 2 (pp. 265-275) (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering). Springer. Long, Y., Jiang, J., Rohlfs, W., ten Elshof, J. E., Brilman, D. W. F. & Visser, C. W.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66609-4_25To breathe or not to breathe: Transport phenomena in life and in colour! (Double oration) (2024)[Book/Report › Inaugural speech]. University of Twente. Arens, J. & Rohlfs, W.Performance evaluation of air-source heat pump based on a pressure drop embedded model (2024)Heliyon, 10(4). Article e24634. Koopman, T., Zhu, T. & Rohlfs, W.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24634A low-frequency ferrohydrodynamic pump for a magneto-caloric refrigerator (2024)Applied energy, 355. Article 122253. Rajamani, K., Juffermans, E., Granelli, L., De Cuadra Rabaneda, A., Rohlfs, W., ter Brake, M., van der Meer, T. & Shahi, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.122253Averaging theory for heat transfer in circular hydraulic jumps with a separation bubble (2024)Journal of fluid mechanics, 979. Article A41. Gómez, R. S., Bohr, T., Nielsen, S., Rohlfs, W., Kneer, R. & Askarizadeh, H.https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.1055

2023

Integration of booster heat pumps in ultra-low temperature district heating network: Prototype demonstration and refrigerant charge investigation (2023)Energy and buildings, 298. Article 113516. Zhu, T., Du, Y., Liang, J., Rohlfs, W., Eric Thorsen, J. & Elmegaard, B.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113516

Research profiles

Wilko Rohlfs is the founder of the mobile teaching application HeatQuiz. HeatQuiz was developed to help students deepen their knowledge of conduction, convection, radiation and mass transfer by solving short tasks. The tasks can be solved in a limited amount of time without the need for a pencil. This makes HeatQuiz ideal for use during short breaks.

The questions are reached via so-called "game maps", which provide structured access to series of questions, each consisting of 5-10 tasks.

HeatQuiz can be accessed via the website: www.HeatQuiz.app.

Courses academic year 2024/2025

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2023/2024

Address

University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room N234
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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