The Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics (German: ''Fraunhofer-Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik''), commonly known as the Ernst Mach Institute and also by the abbreviation Fraunhofer EMI, is a facility of the

Fraunhofer Society The Fraunhofer Society () is a German publicly-owned research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science (as opposed to the Max Planck Society, which works primarily on Basic re ...

in Germany. The Institute is based in

Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...

. Its activities are applied research and development in the fields of

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and high-speed measurement techniques. The Institute also has offices in

Efringen-Kirchen Efringen-Kirchen is a municipality in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Fortifications During World War I fortifications were built at Istein; these were destroyed at the end of the war. In 1936 plans were drawn up to tur ...

and

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. The name "Ernst Mach Institute" is named for the physicist

Ernst Mach Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach ( ; ; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the understanding of the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or object to that of ...

(1838–1916), who first used

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to visualize ballistic and gas-dynamic processes.

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*http://www.emi.fraunhofer.de/ Laboratories in Germany Fraunhofer Society {{germany-org-stub

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