Denis Sotomayor-Zakharov

Research Domain

The use of numerical tools for prediction of ice accretion has become an important step in the design of airplanes and jet engines. The scope of my research is the numerical modeling of ice accretion related phenomena, particularly roughness influence over convective heat transfer, as well as aspects of ice growth and mesh deformation. This research is directed towards the project "ICE-GENESIS", which objective is the creation of the next generation of 3D simulation means for icing.

List of Supervised Projects and Theses

• Numerische Untersuchung des Windkanaleinflusses auf die Auffangraten von Wassertröpfchen eines Tragflügels.
• Numerische Untersuchung der Strömungsstörungen eines Propellers in einem inhomogenen Temperaturfeld.
• Measurement of inlet flow conditions of the Braunschweig Icing Wind Tunnel.
• Wanddruckmessugnen am HMDI-Profil.
• Analyse und Bewertung von CFD-Softwares anhand ausgewählter Benchmarks der Thermo- und Fluiddynamik für den Einsatz in der industriellen Produktentwicklung.
• Evaluation of roughness modeling in turbulence models for icing applications.
• Evaluation of Eulerian particle solver performance on multi-element airfoils.
• Numerische Analyse des Effekts der Rauheit auf die Eisbildung unter Verwendung der DICEPS-Software.
• Implementation of an ice roughness generation algorithm on the DICEPS suite.
• Extension of the DICEPS suite by the implementation of a splashing model for large droplet impact.

Publications

• D. Sotomayor-Zakharov, S. Bansmer, Finite-volume Eulerian solver for simulation of particle-laden flows for icing applications. Computers & Fluids, vol. 228, 2021.

More publications of the workgroup can be found here.