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

Preprints

• M. Schreter-Fleischhacker, N. Much, P. Munch, M. Kronbichler, W. A. Wall, C. Meier, A consistent diffuse-interface finite element approach to rapid melt--vapor dynamics in metal additive manufacturing, 2025, arXiv

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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