CV
- Associate Professor at the Chair of Turbomachinery, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Member of the OpenFOAM Workshop Committee
- Member of Croatian Society of Mechanics
- Dec 2013 – Feb 2015: Research Associate, University College Dublin, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Dublin, Éire/Ireland – Development of multi-scale solid mechanic solver in OpenFOAM
- Oct 2007 – Sep 2008: Post-doctoral Research Associate, University College Dublin, School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Dublin, Éire/Ireland – Development of finite volume (OpenFOAM) based solution procedure for numerical modelling of interaction between incompressible fluid and viscoelastic bio-film using. Development of finite volume arbitrary crack propagation solver. Development of finite volume multi-material stress analysis solver.
Expertise
Development of advanced finite volume solution procedures for numerical modelling of continuum mechanics (multi-physics) problems using OpenFOAM toolbox. Specially interested in following topics:
- interface tracking method,
- immersed boundary method,
- level set method,
- fluid-structure interaction,
- multi-material stress analysis,
- arbitrary crack propagation,
- liquid film flow,
- phase change,
- solidification,
- evaporation.