Group of Power & Flow

Group Bastiaans

Group Bastiaans focuses on mechanical engineering, modelling combustion and sustainable energy sources.

Research Profile

The expertise in this group includes fluid mechanics, modeling and simulation, computational fluid dynamics, numerical simulation, numerical modeling, numerical analysis and CFD simulation.

Current research includes the performance of flamelet generated manifolds (FGM) in premixed turbulent cases, measuring burning velocities with the heat flux method and FGM and pre-assumed PDF's In LES of combustion. Upcoming projects will look at complicated diffusion and combustion design.

Meet some of our Researchers

Associate Professor

Rob Bastiaans

Doctoral Candidate

Boyan Xu

Related themes

Within the research group Power&Flow, Bastiaans is specialized in the following themes:

Theme within Power & Flow

Combustion Systems and their Fuels

This theme is connected to the development of smart injection and combustion strategies of future ultra-clean and efficient combustion…

Theme within Power & Flow

Metal Fuels as dense CO2-free Energy Carriers

This theme is concerned with a novel type of fuels: metal powders that have a tremendously high energy density and can act as a major…

Student opportunities

Are you a student interested in graduating or doing a project in the Power & Flow group? Our research covers a very broad range of subjects. We design, make and test systems for various power and flow applications. In most of our graduation projects we perform experimental, theoretical or numerical studies of the interplay between heat (production) and flow. Students use these studies to either understand the fundamentals of these heat and flow problems or to apply them and find practical solutions on how to operate or optimize the application.

Research projects

Bastiaans is currently working on the following research projects:

Research project

High Hydrogen Gas Turbine Combustor High Pressure Test DEI120081

Research project

FLEXnCONFU - FLEXibilize combined cycle power plant through Power-to-X solutions using non-CONventional fuels

Research project

Combustion strategies for next generation fuel-flexible burners

Research project

Metal-to-Power

Towards implementation of metal powders as CO2-free fuels, development of experimental and numerical tools

Research Project

The CFD design and optimisation of a compressor, combustor, turbine system towards a 100 kW hydrogen fuelled micro gas turbine

Recent Publications

Our most recent peer reviewed publications

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