Prof. Dr.-Ing. Milovan Perić

Curriculum Vitae

Date and place of birth: 24.08.1957 in Čečava, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Professional activities and positions:

Sept. 1976 – July 1980 :     Study of mechanical engineering, branch power and process
                                               engineering, at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
                                               University of Sarajevo; degree “dipl. inž. maš.” with distinction.

Aug. 1980 – Oct. 1980:      Practical training at the Eidgenössisches Institut für
                                               Reaktorforschung in Würenlingen, Switzerland 

Jan. 1981 – Dec. 1981:       Mandatory military service  

Jan. 1982 – Jun. 1982:        Research assistant at the Institute of Power, Process, and
                                                Environmental Engineering, Sarajevo

July 1982 – Oct. 1985:        Postgraduate studies at Imperial College of Science and
                                               Technology, London, UK; degrees: “Diploma of Imperial
                                               College” and “Doctor of Philosophy”, University of London.

Nov. 1985 – April 1986:    Research assistant at the Institute of Power, Process, and
                                               Environmental Engineering, Sarajevo.

May 1986 – Oct. 1991:      Research assistant and lecturer at the Lehrstuhl für   
                                               Strömungsmechanik, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg,
                                               Germany; teaching computational fluid dynamics and
                                               research in the development and application of computational
                                               methods for fluid dynamics, parallel computing and
                                               modeling of turbulence and multi-phase flows.

Nov. 1991 – Oct. 1992:      Visiting scholar at Stanford University; collaboration with
                                               Professor Joel H. Ferziger on the development of
                                               computational methods for fluid dynamics and simulation
                                               of turbulence; work on a book on the topic of computational
                                               methods for fluid dynamics.

Nov. 1992 – Mar. 1993:    Lecturer at the Lehrstuhl für Strömungsmechanik, University  
                                              of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Apr. 1993 – Sept. 2001:    Professor for fluid dynamics at the Institute of Shipbuilding in Hamburg; teaching
                                              computational and applied fluid dynamics; research in the development and application of  
                                              computational methods for fluid dynamics, free-surface flows, parallel computing, multigrid
                                              methods, simulation of turbulence and multi-phase flows, fluid-structure interaction.

Sept. 1997 – Dec. 2001:   Founder and general manager of the ICCM Institute of Computational Continuum Mechanics
                                             GmbH in Hamburg; development and marketing of the software Comet for fluid flow, heat and
                                             mass transfer and fluid-structure interaction, and consulting in the above fields. The company
                                             and the software were sold in 2002 to CD-adapco.

Oct. 2001 – Dec. 2013:    Director of product development, Director of technology, and Vice President for
                                             technology in the software company CD-adapco; leading software development
                                             team in Nürnberg office and advising the management on development and application
                                             of simulation technology in the software STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+. CD-adapco was taken
                                             over by Siemens in 2016 (at that time it had ca. 1000 employees).

Jan. 2014 – Dec. 2024:     Founder and general manager of CoMeT Continuum Mechanics Technologies GmbH and
                                             acting as a consultant to CD-adapco and Siemens, helping to further develop the
                                             multi-physics software Simcenter STAR-CCM+.  In addition, consulting projects for automotive
                                             and marine industry, among others, related to application of computer simulation in design
                                             and optimization processes and problem solving.
                                             Retired in December 2024.

Since 2016 faculty member (without employment) at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen,
Institute of Ship Technology, Ocean Engineering and Transport Systems (now the Institute of Sustainable and
Autonomous Maritime Systems (INAM)).

Until 2023 teaching Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics and supervising master and PhD research projects.

Taught computational methods for fluid dynamics at short courses offered by the von Karman Institute
(Brussels, Belgium) and the Lehrstuhl für Strömungsmechanik, University of Erlangen.

Appointed Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at King’s College, University of
London, and in the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II. Recipient of the
Japanese Government Award for Foreign Specialist.

Published around 200 papers on computational fluid dynamics and related subjects. Co-author of the book
“Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics” (published by Springer in English, German, Japanese, Russian,
and Greek language; 4^th edition in English published in September 2020).