Dr.-Ing. Mirko Bothien

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

Schwerpunktleitung Erneuerbare Energien, Dozent

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

Thermoakustik, Verbrennung, Analyse dynamischer Systeme, Dezentrale Energiesysteme, Gas Turbinen, Alternative Brennstoffe, Wasserstoff, Power-to-Gas-to-Power, Akustik, Komplexe Datenanalyse in Zeit- und Frequenzbereich, Windkraft, Wärmeübertragung, Thermodynamik

Lehrtätigkeit

• Thermodynamik
• Wärmeübertragung
• Wind- und Wasserkraft

Berufserfahrung

• Schwerpunktleiter Erneuerbare Energien
  Institut für Energiesysteme und Fluid-Engineering, ZHAW
  05 / 2023 - heute
• Associate Professor
  Department of Energy and Process Engineering, NTNU Trondheim
  01 / 2021 - heute
• Dozent, Leiter Forschungsgruppe
  Institut für Energiesysteme und Fluid-Engineering, ZHAW
  08 / 2020 - heute
• Rudolf Diesel Industry Fellow
  Institute for Advanced Study, TU München
  04 / 2018 - 06 / 2022
• Member of Board
  Norwegian CCS Research Centre
  03 / 2017 - 07 / 2020
• Verschiedene Leitungs- und Expertenfunktionen
  Ansaldo Energia Switzerland & Alstom Power
  02 / 2009 - 07 / 2020

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Ausbildung

• Dr.-Ing. / Thermoakustik und Verbrennung
  Institut für Strömungsmechanik und Akustik, TU Berlin
  06 / 2005 - 12 / 2008
• Dipl.-Ing. / Turbomaschinen und Strahlantriebe
  RWTH Aachen
  10 / 2001 - 05 / 2005

Weiterbildung

Certificate of Advanced Studies Hochschuldidaktik
PH Zürich
01 / 2023

Netzwerk

Mitglied in Netzwerken

• Hydrogen Europe Research, Roadmap Lead Hydrogen Turbines and Burners
• INSPIRE - Inspiring Pressure Gain Combustion Integration (Horizon2020 ITN)
• Netzwerk Wasserstoff Winterthur
• Institute of Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Fellow
• FLEX4H2 - Flexibility for Hydrogen
• The German Section of the Combustion Institute
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Combustion, Fuels and Emissions Committee, ASME Turbo Expo, Point Contact

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1699-8931

Social Media

LinkedIn

Projekte

• Experimentelle Untersuchungen und Modellierungen zur Skalierung des HyFlexGT multi-Rohrbrenners / Projektleiter:in / laufend
• Brennstoff-flexibles, modulares Retrofit-Brenner-System für industrielle Anwendungen / Projektleiter:in / laufend
• Wissenschaftliche Untersuchung von H2-Verbrennung unter erhöhten Druckbedingungen / Projektleiter:in / laufend
• HyPowerGT: Demonstration einer mit bis zu 100% H2 Wasserstoff betriebenen Gasturbine / Projektleiter:in / laufend
• FLEX4H2: Flexibilität für Wasserstoff / Projektleiter:in / laufend
• AETHER - Fortschrittliche Entwicklungsstrategie für Wasserstoff-Brenner / Projektleiter:in / laufend
• Verbrennungsdynamik von Sprühflammen, die mit nachhaltigen Flugkraftstoffen betrieben werden / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Thermoakustische Analyse von sich frei ausbreitendem Wasserstoff und Flammen in mikro- und mesoskaligen Verbrennungssystemen / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Underground mission: Soilless crop cultivation / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• ADONIS: Ammoniak-Wasserstoff-Verbrennung in Mikrogasturbinen / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Pre-study for the Feasibility Assessment of a Burner System Capable of Handling 100% Hydrogen for Application in Industrial Furnaces and Heating Systems / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Wasserstoff in dezentralen Energiesystemen / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

• Heinzmann, S., Gopalakrishnan, H., Wood, B., & Bothien, M. R. (2025). Linear stability analysis of transversal thermoacoustic modes in reheat combustors. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 147(12), 121019. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4069453
• Proniewicz, M., Petela, K., Mounaïm-Rousselle, C., Bothien, M. R., Gruber, A., Fan, Y., Lee, M., & Szlęk, A. (2025). Preliminary comparison of ammonia- and natural gas-fueled micro-gas turbine systems in heat-driven CHP for a small residential community. Energies, 18(15), 4103. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18154103
• Heinzmann, S. M., Gopalakrishnan, H. S., Gant, F., & Bothien, M. R. (2025). Development and validation of a framework to predict the linear stability of transverse thermoacoustic modes of a reheat combustor. Combustion and Flame, 275(114010). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2025.114010
• Franke, F., Bothien, M., & Sattelmayer, T. (2025). Flame transfer function measurements of hydrogen-enriched reheat flames. Combustion and Flame, 273(113949). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113949
• Klimanek, A., Adamczyk, W., Sładek, S., Fan, Y., Bothien, M. R., Gruber, A., & Szlęk, A. (2025). Prediction of ammonia ignition/quenching and emissions of NOx, NH3 and H2 in a non-premixed swirl combustor using the EDC model. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 65(105670). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2024.105670
• Rodhiya, A., Gruber, A., Bothien, M. R., Chen, J. H., & Aditya, K. (2024). Spontaneous ignition and flame propagation in hydrogen/methane wrinkled laminar flames at reheat conditions : effect of pressure and hydrogen fraction. Combustion and Flame, 269(113695). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113695
• Gopalakrishnan, H. S., Maddipati, R., Gruber, A., Bothien, M. R., & Aditya, K. (2024). A reactor-network framework to model performance and emissions of a longitudinally staged combustion system for carbon-free fuels. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 146(12), 121012. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4066164
• McClure, J., Bothien, M., & Sattelmayer, T. (2023). High-frequency mode shape dependent flame-acoustic interactions in reheat flames. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 145(1), 11014. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4055531
• John, T., Acharya, V., Bothien, M., & Lieuwen, T. (2023). Dynamics of coupled thermoacoustic modes : noise and frequency spacing effects. Combustion and Flame, 252(112738). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2023.112738
• Æsøy, E., Indlekofer, T., Bothien, M., & Dawson, J. R. (2023). The effect of hydrogen on nonlinear flame saturation. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 145(11). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063316
• Gant, F., Cuquel, A., & Bothien, M. (2022). Autoignition flame transfer matrix : analytical model versus large eddy simulations. International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics, 14(1-2), 72–81. https://doi.org/10.1177/17568277221086261
• Æsøy, E., Indlekofer, T., Gant, F., Cuquel, A., Bothien, M., & Dawson, J. (2022). The effect of hydrogen enrichment, flame-flame interaction, confinement, and asymmetry on the acoustic response of a model can combustor. Combustion and Flame, 242(112176). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112176
• McClure, J., Bothien, M., & Sattelmayer, T. (2022). Autoignition delay modulation by high-frequency thermoacoustic oscillations in reheat flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 39(4), 4691–4700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2022.08.047
• Gant, F., Ghirardo, G., Cuquel, A., & Bothien, M. (2022). Delay identification in thermoacoustics. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 144(2), 21005. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052060
• Fournier, G. J. J., Meindl, M., Silva, C. F., Ghirardo, G., Bothien, M., & Polifke, W. (2021). Low-order modeling of can-annular combustors. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 143(12), 121004. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4051954
• Gruber, A., Bothien, M., Ciani, A., Aditya, K., Chen, J. H., & Williams, F. A. (2021). Direct Numerical Simulation of hydrogen combustion at auto-ignitive conditions : ignition, stability and turbulent reaction-front velocity. Combustion and Flame, 229(111385). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.02.031
• Gant, F., Ghirardo, G., & Bothien, M. (2021). On the importance of time delay and noise in thermoacoustic modeling. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 501(116067). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2021.116067
• Æsøy, E., Aguilar, J. G., Bothien, M., Worth, N. A., & Dawson, J. R. (2021). Acoustic-convective interference in transfer functions of methane/hydrogen and pure hydrogen flames. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 143(12), 121017. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4051960
• Ghirardo, G., Gant, F., Boudy, F., & Bothien, M. (2021). Protection and identification of thermoacoustic azimuthal modes. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 143(4), 41021. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4049909
• Gant, F., Gruber, A., & Bothien, M. (2020). Development and validation study of a 1D analytical model for the response of reheat flames to entropy waves. Combustion and Flame, 222, 305–316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.09.005

Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed

• Gopalakrishnan, H. S., Gruber, A., & Bothien, M. R. (2025). Dynamics of premixed hydrogen flames forced by harmonic velocity oscillations : scaling and prediction of transfer functions. National Aerospace Propulsion Conference, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 20-22 January 2025. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-32147
• Heinzmann, S. M., Gopalakrishnan, H. S., & Bothien, M. R. (2025, September 16). Novel framework to predict the linear stability of transverse thermoacoustic modes in reheat combustors. 32. Deutscher Flammentag, Paderborn, Deutschland, 15.-17. September 2025. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35935
• Gopalakrishnan, H. S., Schioppa, A., Mouratian, V., Gruber, A., Gicquel, L., & Bothien, M. R. (2025, September 11). Laminar premixed flame transfer functions of carbon-free fuels : comparison between flow solvers and transport models. Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion (SoTiC), Trondheim, Norway, 8-11 September 2025. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34501
• Gopalakrishnan, H. S., Gruber, A., Moeck, J. P., & Bothien, M. R. (2025, September 11). Laminar premixed flame transfer functions of carbon-free fuels : computations and transfer function scaling. Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion (SoTiC), Trondheim, Norway, 8-11 September 2025. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34502
• Heinzmann, S. M., Leder, N., & Bothien, M. R. (2025, September 9). The effect of transversal velocity fluctuations on the thermoacoustic response of reheat flames. Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion: Industry Meets Academia (SoTiC), Trondheim, Norway, 8-11 September 2025. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34242
• Heinzmann, S. M., Leder, N. A., Gopalakrishnan, H. S., & Bothien, M. R. (2025, September 8). Thermoacoustic FEM modeling of partly autoignition and propagation-stabilized flames. Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion: Industry Meets Academia (SoTiC), Trondheim, Norway, 8-11 September 2025. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34241
• Heinzmann, S., Gopalakrishnan, H., Wood, B., & Bothien, M. R. (2025). Linear stability analysis of transversal thermoacoustic modes in reheat combustors [Conference paper]. V03AT04A051. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2025-152879
• Gopalakrishnan, H., Maddipati, R., Gruber, A., Bothien, M., & Aditya, K. (2024). A reactor-network framework to model performance and emissions of a longitudinally-staged combustion system for carbon-free fuels [Conference paper]. Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2024: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition: Volume 3B: Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions, GT2024-129095(V03BT04A064). https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2024-129095
• Æsøy, E., Indlekofer, T., Bothien, M., & Dawson, J. R. (2023). The effect of hydrogen on non-linear flame saturation. Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2023 : Volume 3B: Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2023-103741
• Gopalakrishnan, H. S., Heggset, T., Gruber, A., Bothien, M. R., & Moeck, J. (2023, September). Prediction of autoignition-stabilized flame dynamics in a backward-facing step reheat combustor configuration. Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion: Industry Meets Academia (SoTiC), Zurich, Switzerland, 11-14 September 2023. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29566
• McClure, J., Bothien, M., & Sattelmayer, T. (2022). High-frequency mode shape dependent flame-acoustic interactions in reheat flames [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2022, 3A. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2022-81127
• Gant, F., Cuquel, A., & Bothien, M. (2021, September). Autoignition flame transfer matrix : analytical model versus large eddy simulations. Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion: Industry Meets Academia (SoTiC 2021), 6-10 September 2021. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23280
• Gant, F., Ghirardo, G., Cuquel, A., & Bothien, M. (2021, September 16). Delay identification in thermoacoustics. Proceedings of the ASME 2021 Turbo Expo. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2021-58903
• Æsøy, E., Aguilar, J. G., Bothien, M., Worth, N. A., & Dawson, J. R. (2021, September 16). Acoustic-convective interference in transfer functions of methane/hydrogen and pure hydrogen flames. Proceedings of the ASME 2021 Turbo Expo. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2021-60058
• Fournier, G. J. J., Meindl, M., Silva, C. F., Ghirardo, G., Bothien, M., & Polifke, W. (2021, September 16). Low-order modeling of can-annular combustors. Proceedings of the ASME 2021 Turbo Expo. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2021-58947

Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts

• Bothien, M. (2025, August 26). Hydrogen in gas turbines : enabler for the future energy system. International Summer University Renewable Energy and Sustainability, Falera, Switzerland, 24 August - 5 September 2025.
• Bothien, M. (2024, June 7). Wasserstoff: Schlüsselelement der Energiewende. 11. Energiekongress, St. Gallen, Schweiz, 7. Juni 2024.
• Bothien, M. (2023, November 7). Das künftige Energiesystem und die Rolle von Wasserstoff. Keynote-Vortrag zur 22. Fachtagung Energie-Agentur der Wirtschaft (EnAW), Bern, Schweiz, 7. November 2023.
• Bothien, M. (2023, May 10). Wasserstoff – Baustein im künftigen Energiesystem. Unternehmerapéro der Gemeinde Eschen-Nendeln, Fürstentum Liechtenstein, 10. Mai 2023.
• Bothien, M. (2021, June). Flame transfer matrices and network modeling. Flame Transfer Functions: Theory, Analysis and Application, Workshop at ANNULiGhT Network Training Event, Online, 14-18 June 2021.

Publikationen vor Tätigkeit an der ZHAW

• Die unten stehende Liste zeigt nur die Veröffentlichungen in wissenschaftlichen Journals. Ein komplette Liste der Veröffentlichungen findet sich auf: www.researchgate.net/profile/Mirko-Bothien, scholar.google.de/citations oder www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri . Eine Übersicht meiner Patente zeigt folgender Link: worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search
• Gant, F., Bunkute, B., Bothien, M. R., Reheat flames response to entropy waves, Proc. of the Combustion Institute, 38(4):6271-6278, 2021.
• Æsøy, E., Aguilar, J. G., Wiseman, S., Bothien, M. R., Worth, N. A., Dawson, J. R., Scaling and Prediction of Transfer Functions in Lean Premixed H2/CH4-Flames, Combustion and Flame, 215:269-282, 2020.
• Bothien, M. R., Ciani, A., Wood, J. P., Fruechtel, G., Toward Decarbonized Power Generation With Gas Turbines by Using Sequential Combustion for Burning Hydrogen, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 141(12):121013-1-10, 2019.
• Ghirardo, G., Moeck, J. P., Bothien, M. R., Effect of Noise and Nonlinearities on Thermoacoustics of Can-Annular Combustors, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 142(4): 041005-1-10, 2019.
• Jiang, Y., del Alamo, G., Gruber, A. Bothien, M. R., Seshadria, K. Williams, F. A., A skeletal mechanism for prediction of ignition delay times and laminar premixed flame velocities of hydrogen-methane mixtures under gas turbine conditions, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 44(33):18573-18585, 2019.
• Gant, F., Scarpato, A., Bothien, M. R., Occurrence of multiple flame fronts in reheat combustors, Combustion and Flame, 205:220-230, 2019.
• Ciani, A., Bothien, M. R., Bunkute, B., Wood, J. P., Fruechtel, G., Superior fuel and operational flexibility of sequential combustion in Ansaldo Energia gas turbines, Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society, 3:630–638, 2019.
• Ghirardo, G. and Bothien, M. R., Quaternion structure of azimuthal instabilities. Physical Review Fluids, 3(11):113202, 2019.
• Konduri, A., Gruber, A., Xu, C., Lu, T., Krisman, A., Bothien, M. R., Chen, J. H., Direct numerical simulation of flame stabilization assisted by autoignition in a reheat gas turbine combustor. Proc. of the Combustion Institute, 37(2):2635-2642, 2019.
• Bothien, M. R., Lauper, D., Yang, Y., Scarpato, A., Reconstruction and Analysis of the Acoustic Transfer Matrix of a Reheat Flame from Large-Eddy Simulations. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 141(2):021018-021018-9, 2019.
• 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):011007-011007-10, 2018.
• Weilenmann, M., Xiong, Y., Bothien, M. R., Noiray, N., Background Oriented Schlieren of fuel jet flapping under thermoacoustic oscillations in a sequential combustor. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 141(1):011030-011030-8, 2018.
• Acharya, V., Bothien, M. R., Lieuwen, T., Non-linear Dynamics of Thermoacoustic Eigen-mode Interactions. Combustion and Flame, 194:309-321, 2018.
• Ghirardo, G. Boudy, F., Bothien, M. R., Amplitude Statistics Prediction in Thermoacoustics. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 844:216-246, 2018.
• Ghirardo, G., Juniper, M., Bothien, M. R., The Effect of the Flame Phase on Thermoacoustic Instabilities. Combustion and Flame, 187:165-184, 2017.
• Bothien, M. R., Noiray, N., Schuermans, B., Analysis of Azimuthal Thermoacoustic Modes in Annular Gas Turbine Combustion Chambers. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 137(6):061505-061505-8, 2015.
• Bothien, M. R. and Wassmer, D., Impact of Density Discontinuities on the Resonance Frequency of Helmholtz Resonators. AIAA Journal, 53(4):877-887, 2015.
• Bothien, M. R., Noiray, N., Schuermans, B., 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):041504-041504-9, 2013.
• Noiray, N., Bothien, M. R., Schuermans, B., Investigation of Azimuthal Staging Concepts in Annular Gas Turbines. Combustion Theory and Modelling, 15(5):585-606, 2011.
• Lacarelle, A., Luchtenburg, D. M., Bothien, M. R., Noack, B. R., Paschereit, C. O., Combination of Image Postprocessing Tools to Identify Coherent Structures of Premixed Flames. AIAA Journal, 48(8):1708-1720, 2010.
• Bothien, M. R., Moeck, J. P., Paschereit, C. O., Comparison of Linear Stability Analysis with Experiments by Actively Tuning the Acoustic Boundary Conditions of a Premixed Combustor. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 132(12):121502-121502-10, 2010.
• Bothien, M. R. and Paschereit, C. O., Tuning of the Acoustic Boundary Conditions of Combustion Test Rigs With Active Control: Extension to Actuators With Nonlinear Response. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 132(9):091503-091503-10, 2010.
• Bothien, M. R., Moeck, J. P., Paschereit, C. O., Assessment of Different Actuator Concepts for Acoustic Boundary Control of a Premixed Combustor., Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 131(2):021502-021502-10, 2009.
• Bothien, M. R., Moeck, J. P., Paschereit, C. O., Active Control of the Acoustic Boundary Conditions of Combustion Test Rigs., Journal of Sound and Vibration, 318(4-5):678-701, 2008.
• Bothien, M. R., Moeck, J. P., Lacarelle, A., Paschereit, C. O., Time Domain Modelling and Stability Analysis of Complex Thermoacoustic Systems. Proc. of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 221(5):657-668, 2007.

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