Dr.-Ing. Mirko Bothien currently is leading the Combustor Technology group of Ansaldo Energia Switzerland. In this role, he is responsible for the technology development of novel premix and reheat combustors as well as all thermoacoustic topics in technology and product development. Since 2017, he is Member of Board of the Norwegian CCS Research consortium.
He received his Diploma degree in Turbomachinery & Jet Propulsion from RWTH Aachen University in 2005. During the last 2 years of his studies, he worked at the Siemens gas turbine test center in Berlin as research intern and Diploma student.
From 2005 to 2008, he pursued his PhD thesis on modelling & control of combustion instabilities and rig-to-engine transferability of gas turbine combustors at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Technical Acoustics, TU Berlin with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Paschereit. The thesis project was in co-operation with Siemens Power.
Beginning of 2009, he joined the thermoacoustics team of Alstom’s combustor R&D department. In 2013, he was appointed Team Leader of the thermoacoustics team and since then also gives a lecture on gas turbines and thermoacoustics at the TU Berlin. From 2014 to 2017, he was Group Leader Thermoacoustics and Combustor Lifetime.
Dr.-Ing. Bothien co-authored 50 technical publications and 37 invention disclosures in the field of combustion dynamics.
Selected Awards
2018, Early Career Award, Global Power and Propulsion Society
2008, Minerva Short-Term Research Grant awarded by Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Research Interests
Dr.-Ing. Bothien’s work in the field of combustion dynamics is dedicated to applying fundamental research to real-world industry problems trying to find creative and innovative solutions for the future product. This includes passive and active control, premix and reheat flame dynamics, rig-to-engine transferability, flame-flame and fluid-structure interaction. Analyzing and predicting system stability, Dr.-Ing. Bothien makes use of network models, unsteady CFD, system identification techniques, advanced dynamic data analysis and statistics. Following an interdisciplinary approach, he combines analytical, numerical, and experimental methods; the latter including acoustic, atmospheric, high pressure and full-scale engine tests. His research at the Institute of Advanced Study is focused on reheat flame dynamics both in the low and high frequency regime.
Selected Publications
Bothien, Mirko R.; Wassmer, Dominik: Impact of Density Discontinuities on the Resonance Frequency of Helmholtz Resonators. AIAA Journal 53 (4), 2015, 877-887
Bothien, Mirko R.; Noiray, Nicolas; Schuermans, Bruno: Analysis of Azimuthal Thermo-acoustic Modes in Annular Gas Turbine Combustion Chambers. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 137 (6), 2014, 061505
Bothien, Mirko R.; Noiray, Nicolas; Schuermans, Bruno: A Novel Damping Device for Broadband Attenuation of Low-Frequency Combustion Pulsations in Gas Turbines. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 136 (4), 2013, 041504
Noiray, Nicolas; Bothien, Mirko; Schuermans, Bruno: Investigation of azimuthal staging concepts in annular gas turbines. Combustion Theory and Modelling 15 (5), 2011, 585-606
Bothien, Mirko R.; Moeck, Jonas P.; Oliver Paschereit, Christian: Active control of the acoustic boundary conditions of combustion test rigs. Journal of Sound and Vibration 318 (4-5), 2008, 678-701
McClure, Jonathan; Bothien, Mirko; Sattelmayer, Thomas: Autoignition delay modulation by high-frequency thermoacoustic oscillations in reheat flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2022 mehr…BibTeX
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McClure, Jonathan; Bothien, Mirko; Sattelmayer, Thomas: High-Frequency Mode Shape Dependent Flame-Acoustic Interactions in Reheat Flames. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 145 (1), 2022 mehr…BibTeX
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McClure, Jonathan; Bothien, Mirko; Sattelmayer, Thomas: High-Frequency Mode Shape Dependent Flame-Acoustic Interactions in Reheat Flames. Volume 3A: Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022 mehr…BibTeX
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2019
Bothien, Mirko R.; Ciani, Andrea; Wood, John P.; Fruechtel, Gerhard: Toward Decarbonized Power Generation With Gas Turbines by Using Sequential Combustion for Burning Hydrogen. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 141 (12), 2019 mehr…BibTeX
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Ciani, Andrea; Bothien, Mirko; Bunkute, Birute; Wood, John; Früchtel, Gerhard: Superior fuel and operational flexibility of sequential combustion in Ansaldo Energia gas turbines. Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society 3, 2019, 1-16 mehr…BibTeX
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Gant, Francesco; Scarpato, Alessandro; Bothien, Mirko R.: Occurrence of multiple flame fronts in reheat combustors. Combustion and Flame 205, 2019, 220-230 mehr…BibTeX
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2018
Acharya, Vishal S.; Bothien, Mirko R.; Lieuwen, Timothy C.: Non-linear dynamics of thermoacoustic eigen-mode interactions. Combustion and Flame 194, 2018, 309-321 mehr…BibTeX
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Aditya, Konduri; Gruber, Andrea; Xu, Chao; Lu, Tianfeng; Krisman, Alex; Bothien, Mirko R.; Chen, Jacqueline H.: Direct numerical simulation of flame stabilization assisted by autoignition in a reheat gas turbine combustor. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2018 mehr…BibTeX
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Bothien, Mirko R.; Lauper, Demian; Yang, Yang; Scarpato, Alessandro: Reconstruction and Analysis of the Acoustic Transfer Matrix of a Reheat Flame from Large-Eddy Simulations. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2018 mehr…BibTeX
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Ghirardo, G.; Boudy, F.; Bothien, M. R.: Amplitude statistics prediction in thermoacoustics. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 844, 2018, 216-246 mehr…BibTeX
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Ghirardo, G.; Di Giovine, C.; Moeck, J. P.; Bothien, M. R.: Thermoacoustics of Can-Annular Combustors. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 141 (1), 2018, 011007 mehr…BibTeX
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Ghirardo, Giulio; Juniper, Matthew P.; Bothien, Mirko R.: The effect of the flame phase on thermoacoustic instabilities. Combustion and Flame 187, 2018, 165-184 mehr…BibTeX
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