Contact

• Room: B.2.2.03
• Email: nils.much(at)tum.de
• Phone: +49 (0) 89 289 55382

Research interests

• FEM-based Melt Pool Modeling
• CutFEM
• Continuum Surface Flux modelling
• High performance computing and software development

Articles in peer-reviewed international journals

• M. Schreter-Fleischhacker, P. Munch, N. Much, M. Kronbichler, W. A. Wall, C. Meier, A consistent diffuse-interface model for two-phase flow problems with rapid evaporation, Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 11 (19), 2024, DOI
• N. Much, M. Schreter-Fleischhacker, P. Munch, M. Kronbichler, W. A. Wall, C. Meier, Improved accuracy of continuum surface flux models for metal additive manufacturing melt pool simulations, Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 11 (16), 2024, DOI
• C. A. Meier, S. L. Fuchs, N. Much, J. Nitzler, R. W. Penny, P. M. Praegla, S. D. Pröll, Y. Sun, R. Weissbach, M. Schreter, N. E. Hodge, A. J. Hart, W. A. Wall, Physics-Based Modeling and Predictive Simulation of Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Across Length Scales, Surveys for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM Mitteilungen), Wiley Online Library, 2021, DOI

International Conference Contributions with Abstract

• N. Much, M. Schreter, P. Munch, M. Kronbichler, W. A. Wall, C. A. Meier, Mathematically consistent representation of interface fluxes for finite-element-based melt pool modeling in metal additive manufacturing, Sim-AM 2023, 26.07.-28.07.2023, Garching b. München, Germany
• N. Much, M. Schreter, P. Munch, M. Kronbichler, W. A. Wall, C. A. Meier, A novel finite element formulation for thermal multi-phase flow including melting and evaporation: application to additive manufacturing melt pool modeling, 9th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics, 21.09.-23.09.2022, Essen, Germany

Teaching

• Nichtlineare Strukturmechanik, Wintersemester 2024/25
• Nichtlineare Finite-Element-Methoden, Sommersemester 2022, 2023, 2024
• Technische Mechanik II, Sommersemester 2021
• Technische Mechanik I, Wintersemester 2020/21

Supervised student projects / theses

• Towards DG-Based Thermo-Hydrodynamic Melt Pool Simulations, Master's Thesis, 2024, in cooperation with Magdalena Schreter
• Advanced laser modeling for finite-element-based melt pool simulations in metal additive manufacturing, Master's Thesis, 2023, in cooperation with Magdalena Schreter
• Visualisation of melt pool dynamics in Selective Laser Melting, Visualization Techniques in Computational Mechanics, 2021, in cooperation with Magdalena Schreter
• A Microstructure-informed Elasto-plastic Constitutive Model for Large Temperature Ranges in Selective Laser Melting, Bachelor's Thesis, 2021

Myself

• since 2024 Research Associate and founding member at the Professorship of Simulation for Additive Manufacturing, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• 2020 - 2024 Research Associate at the Institute for Computational Mechanics (LNM), Technical University of Munich, Germany
• 2020 Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany

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