Helge I. Andersson
Background and activities
Area of work
Courses
- TEP4156 Viscous flows and boundary layers (autumn course for MSc students)
- TEP4112 Turbulent flows (spring course for MSc students)
- EP8405 Turbulence (for PhD students)
Administrative duties
- Member of the PhD committee at Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology (2012 - ?)
Research
- Flow of particle-laden suspensions
- Flow around bluff bodies with focus on complex wake phenomena
- Flows in rotating systems affected by Coriolis forces
- Flows in laminar and turbulent boundary layers
Skills and expertise
- Fluid mechanics of viscous liquids and gases
- Turbulences, including physics of turbulence, simulations, and mathematical modeling
- CFD (computational fluid dynamics)
Background
Education
- M.Sc. in Engineering Physics, NTH, Trondheim 1975
- Dr.Ing. in Fluidmechanics, Dept. of General Sciences, NTH, Trondheim 1982
Work experience
- Norwegian Water Resources and Electricity Board, Oslo, 1977-1978
- Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTN), Trondheim, 1978-1983
- Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium 1983-1984
- NTH, now NTNU, 1984 – present (Professor from 1985)
- NTNU, Head of Department, Division of Mechanics, Thermo- and Fluiddynamics, 1999-2002
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) High-order overset grid method for detecting particle impaction on a cylinder in a cross flow. International journal of computational fluid dynamics (Print). vol. 33 (1-2).
- (2019) Forces and torques on a prolate spheroid: low-Reynoldsnumber and attack angle effects. Acta Mechanica. vol. 230 (2).
- (2019) Turbulent wake behind a concave curved cylinder. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 878.
- (2019) Preferential orientation of tracer spheroids in turbulent channel flow. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters. vol. 9 (3).
- (2019) Settling tracer spheroids in vertical turbulent channel flows. International Journal of Multiphase Flow. vol. 118.
- (2019) On heat transfer in unsteady von Karman flow. Heat Transfer Research. vol. 50 (3).
- (2019) Low-frequency oscillations in flow past an inclined prolate spheroid. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. vol. 78.
- (2019) Near-Wake of an Inclined 6:1 Spheroid at Reynolds Number 4000. AIAA Journal. vol. 57 (4).
- (2019) A novel approach to rigid spheroid models in viscous flows using operator splitting methods. Numerical Algorithms. vol. 81 (4).
- (2019) A slender body model for thin rigid fibers: validation and comparisons. arXiv.org.
- (2019) Computational methods for tracking inertial particles in discrete incompressible flows. arXiv.org.
- (2019) Diagnostic tools of particle rotation anisotropy. International Journal of Multiphase Flow. vol. 120.
- (2019) Mapping spheroids rotation modes in turbulent channel flow: effects of shear, turbulence, and particle inertia. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 876.
- (2019) Passive directors in turbulence. Physical Review Fluids. vol. 4.
- (2018) Numerical investigation of free-stream turbulence effects on the transition-in-wake state of flow past a circular cylinder. Journal of turbulence. vol. 19 (3).
- (2018) Inertial particle impaction on a cylinder in turbulent cross-flow at modest Reynolds numbers. International Journal of Multiphase Flow. vol. 111.
- (2018) Treatment of solid objects in the Pencil Code using an immersed boundary method and overset grids. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics.
- (2018) Turbulent wake behind side-by-side flat plates: Computational study of interference effects. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 855.
- (2018) Influences of upstream extensions on flow around a curved cylinder. European journal of mechanics. B, Fluids. vol. 67.
- (2018) Wake behind a concave curved cylinder. Physical Review Fluids. vol. 3 (9).