Serdar Hiçdurmaz

Leading activities in nationally-funded research projects. • Conceptual and detailed modeling solar receivers, heat exchangers, thermal energy storage systems and electric heaters. • Development of reduced order thermal models for power generation and Power-to-Heat applications. • Experience in contract negotiations with external partners for research and demonstration projects. • Techno-economic assessment of emerging concepts. • Project acquisition and proposal drafting.

Development of a thermal code from scratch in MATLAB for granular flows. • Development of reduced order thermal models for CSP applications. • Design and construction of prototype scale test set-ups. • Image Processing / PTV measurement of granular material. • Development of an image processing algorithm in Python using OpenCV library. • Thermal, mechanical, rheological, optical and size characterization of granular materials.

CFD model development for multiphase flow in ANSYS/Fluent. • Granular Particle Characterization. • Development of particle-based thermal energy storage and heat exchanger concepts. • Design and development of experimental set-ups related to main heat transfer topics for educational purposes. Lab tutor for experimental heat transfer and fluid dynamics courses.