Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Division of Fluid Dynamics, SWEDEN
My main area of research is numerical simulation of the turbulent flow in water turbines, in which I have been working since 1997. I have developed an in-house CFD code for that purpose, but have since 2005 switched to the use and development of OpenFOAM/FOAM-extend and become highly involved in that community. We have focused on turbulent swirling flows, vortex breakdown, vortex ropes, active flow control, cavitation, rotor-stator interaction, system transients, turbulence modeling etc. in both academic cases and water turbine geometries. We do numerical and experimental investigations of the air-cooling of hydropower electric generators. I am also involved in projects on tidal current electric energy production, welding, fiber flow, flow in flow meters, heat transfer at free surfaces, and bio-mechanics (flow-induced forces in stent grafts, and flow in the neck during whiplash motion). See www.tfd.chalmers.se/%7Ehani/ for more information.