Background and activities
| PERSONAL DATA | |
| Name: | Bjørn Hafskjold |
| Address: | Tillerringen 54, 7092 TILLER (private) Dept. for kjemi, 7491 TRONDHEIM (work) |
| Phone: | +47 72880858 (private), +47 73594487 (work), +47 91897078 (mobile) |
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| Date/place of birth: | 1947-03-21/Drammen |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Language abilities: | English (fluent), some French, German and Japanese |
| Education |
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| 1966 – 71: | NTH, Trondheim: Siviling. |
| 1971 – 79: | Dr. techn. (NTH) |
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| Interests |
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| Professional | Management, transport processes in condensed media(liquids and solids), numerical simulations (molecular dynamics), teaching |
| Private | Mountaineering, orienteering |
| PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND | |
| 1971 - 81 | Doctorate student at NTH, Univ. of Paris, Univ. of Bergen, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook. Worked with numerical simulations of molten salts and electrolyte solutions, leading to the degree dr. techn. at NTH. |
| 1981 - 85 | Researcher, group leader and Research director at SINTEF Petroleum technology (PETEK). Responsible for budget, sales and review of projects. Established and completed SINTEF's collaborative project ISEP with Southwest Research Inst. (SwRI), San Antonio, Texas. Manager of SINTEF's Center for petroleum process technology. |
| 1985 - 87 | Division manager of Petroleum technology at IKU. |
| 1988 - present | Professor i physical chemistry at NTH/NTNU. Teaching physical chemistry and research on coupled transport processes in liquids and at surfaces. |
| 1996 - 98 | Dean at Faculty of Chemistry and Biology, NTNU. |
| 1999 - 2004 | Project leader NOTUR (Norwegian high-performance comuting). |
| 2004 - 05 | CEO of UNINETT Sigma AS and project leader NOTUR II. |
| 2005 - 13 | Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, NTNU.) |
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2019) Pressures Inside a Nano-Porous Medium. The Case of a Single Phase Fluid. Frontiers in Physics.
- (2018) Non-isothermal transport of multi-phase fluids in porous media. The entropy production. Frontiers in Physics. vol. 6.
- (2017) Development of an inventory for Alternative Conceptions among students in chemistry. LUMAT: Research and Practice in Math, Science and Technology Education. vol. 5 (1).
- (2017) Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of the transient Ludwig-Soret effect in a binary Lennard-Jones/spline mixture. The European Physical Journal E : Soft matter. vol. 40 (4).
- (2017) Transient Heat Flow in a One-component Lennard-Jones/spline Fluid. A Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Study. Computational methods in science and technology. vol. 23 (3).
- (2004) Can such long time steps really be used in dissipative particle dynamics simulations?. Molecular Simulation. vol. 30 (13-15).
- (2004) Molecular Simulations of Surface Forces and Film Rupture in Oil/Water/Surfactant Systems. Langmuir. vol. 20 (26).
- (2004) Thermal flux through a surface of n-octane. A non-equilibrium molecular dynamics study. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. vol. 108.
- (2004) Nonequilibrium molecular-dynamics simulation of net evaporation and net condensation, and evaluation of the gas-kinetic boundary condition at the interphase. Physics of fluids. vol. 16.
- (2004) Chain Length Dependencies of the Bending Modulus of Surfactant Monolayers. Physical Review Letters. vol. 92.
- (2004) Simulating the effect of surfactant structure on bending moduli of monolayers. Journal of Chemical Physics. vol. 120.
- (2003) Molecular-level calculation scheme for pressure in inhomogeneous systems of flat and spherical layers. Molecular Simulation. vol. 29 (2).
- (2003) Effect of surfactant structure on interfacial properties. Europhysics letters. vol. 63 (6).
- (2003) Investigation of Surfactant Efficiency Using Dissipative Particle Dynamics. Langmuir. vol. 19.
- (2002) Microscopic pressure tensor for hard-sphere fluids. Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. vol. 66 (1).
- (2001) Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Steady-State Heat and Mass Transport in Condensation. II. Transfer Coefficients. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. vol. 240.
- (2000) Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of steady-state heat and Mass Transport in Condensation. I. Local Equilibrium. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. vol. 232.
- (2000) Diffusion measurements at long observation times in the presence of spatially variable internal magnetic field gradients. Journal of magnetic resonance (San Diego, Calif. 1997 : Print). vol. 146.
- (1999) Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of coupled heat- and mass transport in binary fluid mixtures in pores. International journal of thermophysics. vol. 20.
- (1999) Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of coupled heat- and mass transport in binary fluid mixtures in pores. International journal of thermophysics. vol. 20.