Rob Bastiaans
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Rob Bastiaans is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). In this capacity, he is also Chairman of the Dutch Section of the Combustion Institute and Chairman of the workgroup on Fuel Flexibility and Emissions of ETN (European Turbine Network). His teaching at TU/e revolves around mechanical Engineering, modelling combustion and sustainable energy sources.
Rob’s areas of expertise include fluid mechanics, modeling and simulation, computational fluid dynamics, numerical simulation, numerical modeling, numerical analysis and CFD simulation. Current research includes the performance of flamelet generated manifolds (FGM) in premixed turbulent cases, measuring burning velocities with the heat flux method and FGM and pre-assumed PDF's In LES of combustion. Upcoming projects will look at complicated diffusion and combustion design.
Coincidences are logical” - Johan Cruijf
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Rob Bastiaans obtained his MSc with honours on aero-acoustics and received his PhD in the field of DNS and LES of transitional to turbulent buoyant convection flows including experiments. Later, he carried out research in experimental particle techniques, in which he developed new image analysis software for flow quantification. In addition to his work at TU/e, Bastiaans is a senior visiting professor at the Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) at Stanford University.
Rob was treasurer of both the Dutch section of the Combustion Institute and the Dutch section of the International Flame Research Foundation, IFRF (NVV). He has also been a team member of Micro Turbine Technology (MTT). In the past, he has worked on development of a compressible DNS/LES code including combustion.
Key Publications
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T. Cardoso de Souza,R.J.M. Bastiaans,L.P.H. De Goey,B.J. Geurts
Modulation of a methane Bunsen flame by upstream perturbations
Journal of Turbulence (2017) -
A. Donini,R.J.M. Bastiaans,J.A. van Oijen,L.P.H. de Goey
A 5-D implementation of FGM for the large eddy simulation of a stratified swirled flame with heat loss in a gas turbine combustor
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (2017) -
M. Goswami,R.J.M. Bastiaans,L.P.H. de Goey,A.A. Konnov
Experimental and modelling study of the effect of elevated pressure on ethane and propane flames
Fuel (2016) -
G.M. Ottino,A. Fancello,M. Falcone,R.J.M. Bastiaans,L.P.H. Goey, de
Combustion modeling including heat loss using flamelet generated manifolds: a validation study in OpenFOAM
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (2016) -
J.A. van Oijen,A. Donini,R.J.M. Bastiaans,J.H.M. ten Thije Boonkkamp,L.P.H. de Goey
State-of-the-art in premixed combustion modeling using flamelet generated manifolds
Progress in Energy and Combustion Science (2016)
Ancillary Activities
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