Dr. Jan BOHACEK

Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria, EU

At the METAL'18 conference Dr. Bohacek (collaborator of Prof. Ludwig) will present the plenary lecture: "Simulation in Metallurgy: Past Achievements and Future Challenges".

Education:

• Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Laboratory, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
  Doctoral degree - 2011 (Effect of flow parameters of water and air atomized sprays on cooling intensity of hot surfaces)
• Victor Kaplan Dept. of Fluid Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
  Master’s degree – 2005 (Ejector type cooling nozzle)

Employment history:
since 2017 in Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Laboratory, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.

Postdoctoral training:
since 2011 at Chair of Simulation and Modeling Metallurgical Processes, Montanuniversitaet Leoben.

Fellowships:

• in 2010 in SVS FEM s.r.o., Brno, Czech Republic
• in 2008 a member of CFD group under supervision of Dr. Tim Peeters in Tata Steel, Ijmuiden, the Netherlands

Volunteer referee tasks:
for Materials and Metallurgical Transactions and Transactions of the Foundry Research Institute.

Publications: available on http://smmp.unileoben.ac.at/de/2706/

Interests:

• CFD simulations in ANSYS Fluent, Palabos (LBM), MATLAB,
• Free-surface flows coupled with heat transfer and solidification,
• hyperbolic PDEs, shallow water equations, approximate Riemann solvers,
• linear solvers on GPUs,
• automation with Raspberry PI and Qt.

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