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

 

ORCID iD icon ORCID: 0000-0002-2055-1163
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Industrial & Academic Career

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

Academic Education

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

Research Activities

Activities in Scientific Bodies and Other Organisations

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

Fields of Specialization

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

Working and Research Topics

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

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Wet compression (2017 - )

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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)

  • CFD study on oscillation of a thin plate in a wake of a cylinder.
  • Two-Way coupling simulations with CFX .