Organizing Committee
Dr. Eugen RUSU
President of the Romanian National Commission of Mechanical Engineering
Galati University Dunarea de Jos
Romania
Biography
Dr. Eugen RUSU received his Post-doctoral specializations at the Hydrographical Institute of the Portuguese Navy, Lisbon, Portugal. In this period, responsible with the wave modelling and operational forecast in some major situations that are related to the environmental evaluations in the coastal zones as: the accident of M/V Prestige (2002) and the NATO exercises: ‘Unified Odyssey’ (2002) and ‘Swordfish’ (2003). Currently, he is a President of the Romanian National Commission of Mechanical Engineering, Vice-rector, University ‘Dunarea de jos of Galaá¹i’, Romania and he is Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, UDJG. His research interests are in the area of Modelling and analysis of the environmental data in marine environment, correlated with the assessment of the natural and technological risks that may occur in these zones. Metocean data analysis and evaluation of the reliability of different data sources. Another direction is related to the renewable energy extraction in marine environment, efficiency assessments performed for various converters and in different environments, studies of the possible coastal impact of the future marine energy parks.
Research Interest
Modelling and analysis of the environmental data in marine environment, correlated with the assessment of the natural and technological risks that may occur in these zones. Metocean data analysis and evaluation of the reliability of different data sources. Another direction is related to the renewable energy extraction in marine environment, efficiency assessments performed for various converters and in different environments, studies of the possible coastal impact of the future marine energy parks.
Biography
BSc in Chemistry & Physics in 1995 and MSc in Catalysis in 1996 at the University of Bucharest (UB), Romania. PhD in Catalysis in 2002 at the Institute of Catalysis – University Lyon 1, France. CNRS post-doctoral researcher at the Institute Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, France, from October 2006 to September 2007. Habilitation in Catalysis in 2013 at UB. Associate Professor at UB from 2005, currently in charge of Chemical Technology and Catalytic Materials courses. Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Catalysts and Catalytic Processes of UB from 2007. Research interests cover the field of catalysis by metal oxides. More than 70 publications including a book chapter.
Research Interest
Research interests cover the field of catalysis by metal oxides.
Biography
Professor Sayma obtained BSc in Mechanical Engineering with Distinction from Birzeit University in Palestine in 1987, MSc in Energy Technology from Salford University in 1990 and PhD from UMIST in 1994. His thesis topic was Finite Element model for dense gas dispersion in the atmosphere. He joined the Aeronautics department at Imperial College London in 1994 on EPSRC funded project as a research assistant where he worked on the development of an external aerodynamic compressible flow model introducing boundary layer grids and viscous effects in the Euler solver. In 1996, he joined the Rolls Royce Vibration University Technology Centre (VUTC) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, where he stayed for about 9 years. He progressed to a Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow and then Principal Research Fellow. In 2001, he was awarded the title RolIs Royce reaserch fellow at Imperial College and in 2003 he was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow co-funded by Rolls-Royce Plc. During his spell at the VUTC, he was one of two main developers for the unsteady aerodynamics and aeroelatisity code AU3D which has been the main aeroelasticity system at Rolls Royce. He also contributed to several major aero-engine projects including analysis of compressors, fans, turbines, rotating cavities, intake and bypass ducts and downstream nozzles. In 2005 he became a Senior Lecturer in Computational Mechanics at Brunel University. A year later, he was given a Chair in Computational Fluid Dynamics at the University of Sussex where he worked at the Thermo-Fluid Mechanics Research Centre (TFMRC) at the Department of Engineering and Design. He continued to lead research in unsteady compressible flow in turbomacinery, where he focused on industrial gas turbines and micro-gas turbines. He held several senior administrative positions, the last of which was the Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange for the School of Engineering and Informatics. He also introduced a new MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology. In January 2013, he joined City University London as a Professor of Energy Engineering. He is currently leading EU FP7 consortium for conducting research and demonstration of a concentrated solar power system powering a small-scale micro-gas turbine. He is also conducting research in waste heat recovery using small scale Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) in addition to continued activity in turbomachinery CFD and aeroelasticity.He has been an active member of the European Turbine Network (ETN), based in Brussels, which coordinates European industrial gas turbine activities across the whole value chain. He has been the chairman of the Cycle Efficiency Technical Committee and he is currently a member of the ETN project board.
Research Interest
Unsteady Aerodynamics and Aeroelaticity, Gas Turbines for jet propulsion, Industrial gas Turbines, Micro-gas turbines, Energy systems including solar power and waste heat recovery