Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Schuster

Contact

Location

University of Duisburg-Essen
Institute for Energy and Environmental Process Engineering
Chair of Turbomachinery
Lotharstraße 1, D-47057 Duisburg

Room MF 023a

E-Mail

s.schuster@uni-due.de

Phone

(+49) 203 – 379 3531

since 2018	Co-Chair of the ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition
since 2012	Reviewer for different conference and Journals such as: ASME, ETC, European sCO2 Alliance MDPI, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Elsevier

Thermal turbomachines, Computational fluid dynamics of compressible flows, real gas flow, two-phase flow, condensation

Numerical schemes for the calculation of real gas and two-phase flows (2019 - )

Wet compression (2017 - )

Modelling methods for the liquid phase in condensing flows (2016- )

Implementation of the Moments method in the Lagrangian frame of reference into the 1D and 3D version of the Cambridge code SteamBlock.
Implementation of full spectrum and monodispersion method into the 1D version of SteamBlock.

Supercritical Carbon Dioxide system (2015 - )

Performance map computation of sCO2 compressors considering phase change
Involved in sCO2-HeRo, sCO2-Flex, sCO2-4-NPP, CO2OLHEAT
Co-proposer for the sCO2-HeRo project in the European research framework H2020
General specification of the machine design consisting of radial compressor – electrical generator and radial inflow turbine.
Building of a CFD setup to design and optimize the compressor and turbine in CFX.
Special attention paid to the fluid properties and simulation near the critical point.

Design tool for axial pumps (2015)

Creation of a program for fully automated axial pump design.
Starting from one 1D to a CAD kernel to the output of the geometry in IGES format and input files for mesh generation software. Programming done in Matlab.

Condensation in radial turbines (2010 – 2016)

Modelling of the processes from droplet formation to liquid film atomization.
Implementation of the equations for nucleation rate and droplet growth into the Eulerian-Lagrangian framework of CFX. Subroutines programmed in Fortran.
Validation against results of Laval nozzle experiments.
Cooperation in the International wet steam modelling project (IWSMP).
Particle tracking extended to take into account turbulent fluctuation and diffusion.
Development of a CFD program to calculate the film motion on the surface of radial turbine blades. Partial-Differential-Equations are solved with the finite difference method. Programming is done in Fortran.
Derivation of correlations for the design process based on the CFD investigations.

Pelton turbines for energy recovery in air conditioning units (2009 - 2010)

Investigation of the flow of CO2 from supercritical to two-phase flow.
Simulation with evaporation performed with CFX. Crucial design parameters were determined.

Fluid-Structure-Interaction (2008 - 2009)

2024 2019-2023	Deputy Head at the Chair of Turbomachinery, University of Duisburg-Essen Department Head Numerics at the Chair of Turbomachinery, University of Duisburg-Essen
2017 - 2019	Research Associate Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Research group of Dr. Alexander White
Sept. 2016 - Feb. 2017	Visitor to the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Research group of Dr. Alexander White
2011 - 2017	Research Assistant at the Chair of Turbomachinery, University of Duisburg-Essen
Oct. 2010 - Dec. 2010	Graduate Assistant at the Chair of Turbomachinery, University of Duisburg-Essen
2008 - 2010	Student trainee in the department for thermodynamic and aerodynamic of steam turbines, Siemens AG Mülheim, Germany

2015	Doctoral degree in mechanical engineering (Dr.-Ing.), University of Duisburg-Essen
2005 – 2010	Graduation with a diploma degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in mechanical engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen