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Oliver Kamps. Currently I am the scientific coordinator of the Center for Nonlinear Science (CeNoS) of the University of Münster. Beside my job as scientific coordinator I also do some research and teaching on complex systems.

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Dr. Oliver Kamps
Center for Nonlinear Science
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Corrensstraße 2
48149 Münster
okamp@uni-muenster.de.

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Scientific Interests

Statistical description of turbulence and turbulence modeling

The turbulent motion of fluids is an ubiquitous phenomenon of great importance for scientific and engineering applications. It plays a crucial role in the understanding of the weather, transport of pollutants or for flight and combustion. Although the basic equations are known for a long time, the understanding of turbulence and the connection between experimental results and the basic equations is still poor.

Analysis of complex systems

On a macroscopic level complex systems can often be described by only a few degrees of freedom, referred to as order parameters. The other degrees of freedom can often be incorporated as noise into the equations of motion for the order parameters. Only in a few cases these equations can directly be derived from the basic equations governing the time dynamics of all microscopic degrees of freedom of the system. The goal is to develop methods to estimate the equations of motion for the order parameters or the order parameters themselves from experimental data. Applications reach from the description of turbulent flows and other physical phenomena to applications in biology, medicine or finance.

Nonlinear dynamics of power grids

The dynamical behaviour of power grids is an fascinating overlapp of different scientific fields. From a physics viewpoint self-organization, networks and fluctuations are the interesting topics. Self-organization plays a crucial role for the synchronization of generators and consumers in the power grid. The grid structure makes the connection to network science. Due to the stronger and stronger incorporation of renewable energies, especially wind and solar energy, turbulent fluctations of power production influence the stability and the dynamics of the power grid. This is the relation to fluctuations.

Teaching

Introduction to Nonlinear Physics

The topic Nonlinear Physics deals with nonlinear dynamics and self-organization in complex systems. Look here for more information and Material ...

Oh no! Numbers! -- Back of the Envelope Science

The more formal title of the lecture is "Approximation methods in science". The lecture deals with Fermi questions, back of the enveloppe calculations, scaling, dimensional analysis and other things. Look here for more information and Material ...

Publications

Journal Articles

O. Kamps and M. Voßkuhle

Universality of the Fokker-Planck description of the energy cascade in turbulence

In preparation

K. Schmietendorf, J. Peinke and O. Kamps

Bridging from Kuramoto-like Networks to Real Power Grids: Lossy Grids, Voltage Regulation and Implementing Inverter Units

In preparation

K. Schmietendorf, J. Peinke and O. Kamps

Kuramoto Oscillators Subjected to Non-Markovian Noise

Submitted to PRE

K. Schmietendorf, J. Peinke, R. Friedrich and O. Kamps

Self-organized synchronization and voltage stability in networks of synchronous machines

Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics, 2014, 223, 2577-2592

R. Friedrich, M. Voßkuhle, O. Kamps and M. Wilczek

Two-point vorticity statistics in the inverse cascade of two-dimensional turbulence

Physics of Fluids, vol. 24, no. 12, p. 125101, 2012.

R. Friedrich, A. Daitche, O. Kamps, J. Lülff, M. Voßkuhle and M. Wilczek

The Lundgren-Monin-Novikov hierarchy: Kinetic equations for turbulence .

Comptes Rendus Physique, vol. 13, no. 9-10, pp. 929-953, 2012.

O. Kamps and M. Wilczek

Long Time Memory of Lagrangian Acceleration Statistics in 2D and 3D Turbulence .

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2011, 318, 052033

H. Homann, O. Kamps, R. Friedrich and R. Grauer

Bridging from Eulerian to Lagrangian statistics in 3D hydro- and magnetohydrodynamic turbulent flows

New Journal of Physics 11 (2009) 73020

O. Kamps, R. Friedrich, and R. Grauer

Exact relation between Eulerian and Lagrangian velocity increment statistics

Phys. Rev. E 79, 066301 (2009)

R. Friedrich, R. Grauer, H. Homann and O. Kamps

Statistics of a mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian velocity increment in fully developped turbulence

Physica Scripta 79 (2009) 55403

M. Wilczek, O. Kamps, R. Friedrich

Lagrangian Investigation of Two-dimensional Decaying Turbulence

Physica D 237, 14-17 (2008)

O. Kamps and R. Friedrich

Lagrangian statistics in forced two-dimensional turbulence

In: Phys. Rev. E, American Physical Society, 2008, 78, 036321

O. Kamps, P. Jander and C. Denz

Instability threshold of a photorefractive pattern-forming system .

Phys. Rev. E 72, 016215 (2005)

Proceedings

O. Kamps

Characterizing the Fluctuations of Wind Power Production by Multi-time Statistics Wind Energy

In: Wind Energy - Impact of Turbulence ed. M. Hölling, J. Peinke and S. Ivanell, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014, 2, 67-72

O. Kamps and M. Wilczek

Statistical Description of Turbulent Flows

In: Progress in Turbulence V ed. M. Talamelli, A.; Oberlack, M. & Peinke, J.;A. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol. 131. Springer International Publishing, 2014, 149, 1-8

M Voßkuhle, O. Kamps, M. Wilczek and R. Friedrich

Statistical Properties of Velocity Increments in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

In: Progress in Turbulence III ed. by Peinke J, Oberlack M, Talamelli A. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol. 131. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010, pp. 37-40.

Other

M. Wilczek,O. Kamps, A. Daitche and R. Friedrich

Joint Numerical and Theoretical Investigations of Fully Developed Fluid Turbulence

In: inSiDE, 2011, 9, 26

O. Kamps

Lagrangesche Statistik in turbulenten Strömungen

PhD thesis under supervision of R. Friedrich

O. Kamps

Bestimmung der Kurven marginaler Stabilität in einem photorefraktiven Rückkopplungssystem

Diploma thesis under supervision of C. Denz