Biography
Hrvoje Jasak has a first degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Zagreb (1992), and a PhD in CFD from Imperial College London, with Prof. A.D. Gosman (1993-1996). He was a Senior Development Engineer at CD-adapco (now Siemens PLM) (1996-2000), Technical Director at Nabla Ltd (2000-2006), and has worked as a core developer on the new generation software at Ansys-Fluent Inc. (2000-2008). He is a director of Wikki Ltd.
Hrvoje holds a Professorship at the University of Zagreb and a Mercator Fellowship at TU Darmstadt, Germany.
Hrvoje is one of the two original co-authors of OpenFOAM, a Member of OpenFOAM Governance Steering Committee and Chair of the OpenFOAM Numerics Technical Committee.
Research
His research interests are on numerical simulation methods, mathematical modelling of continuum phenomena and numerical mathematics, numerical modelling in multi-phase and free surface flows, naval hydrodynamics and wave modelling, dynamic mesh handling, error estimation, mesh adaptivity and practical software development. He is particularly experienced in numerical modelling of complex heat and mass transfer systems and multi-physics applications.
Hrvoje is a professional programmer with 25 years of experience in C++ and object-oriented software design, high performance computing, linear algebra on HPC platforms and related topics. In his career he has managed large software projects and wrote approx. 1 million lines of C++ source code.
Hrvoje's active projects are in the area of multi-physics modelling of complex coupled system, such as numerical simulation of batteries, scale-resolved simulations of wear in mixed lubricated contact, exa-scale HPC applications of linear algebra and others.
Publications
- A tensorial approach to computational continuum mechanics using object-oriented techniques, HG Weller, G Tabor, H Jasak, C Fureby, Computers in physics 12 (6), 620-631 http://doi.org/10.1063/1.168744
- OpenFOAM: A C++ library for complex physics simulations, H Jasak, A Jemcov, Z Tukovic, International workshop on coupled methods in numerical dynamics 1000, 1-20 http://csabai.web.elte.hu/http/simulationLab/jasakEtAlOpenFoam.pdf
- High resolution NVD differencing scheme for arbitrarily unstructured meshes, H Jasak, HG Weller, AD Gosman, International journal for numerical methods in fluids 31 (2), 431-449 https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(19990930)31:2%3C431::AID-FLD884%3E3.0.CO;2-T
- OpenFOAM: Open source CFD in research and industry, H Jasak, International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering 1 (2), 89-94 https://doi.org/10.2478/ijnaoe-2013-0011
- A pressure-based, compressible, two-phase flow finite volume method for underwater explosions, ST Miller, H Jasak, DA Boger, EG Paterson, A Nedungadi, Computers & Fluids 87, 132-143 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2013.04.002
- A moving mesh finite volume interface tracking method for surface tension dominated interfacial fluid flow, Ž Tuković, H Jasak, Computers & fluids 55, 70-84 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2011.11.003
- A computational method for sharp interface advection, J Ronby, H Bredmose, H Jasak, Royal Society open science 3(11) https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160405
- Error analysis and estimation for the finite volume method with applications to fluid flows, H Jasak, PhD Thesis, Imperial College London (University of London) 1996 https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/8335/1/Hrvoje_Jasak-1996-PhD-Thesis.pdf
- OpenFOAM: Selected papers of the 11th Workshop, J M Nobrega, H Jasak, Springer Nature 2019 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60846-4
Teaching and Supervisions
Teaching
Teaching materials are available on Moodle and TIS for students registered at the University. Please follow the links for full course description.
MPhil Course Description
Undergraduate Teaching Description
Hrvoje has supervised 14 PhD students on topics ranging from basic numerical modelling, high-performance computing, free surface and multi-phase flows and various multi-physics applications. He has supervised over 50 MSc projects.
Most of his work is industrially funded in collaboration with leading companies worldwide.
