DrGiovanni Giustini

PhD position available (UK students only): boiling in nuclear reactors

Honorary Lecturer in the Nuclear Engineering Group, Mechanical Engineering Department.

I am interested in numerical modelling of heat transfer and fluid flow, in particular multi-phase flow with phase change and boiling heat transfer, and in the development of interface-capturing CFD techniques for simulation of industrial two-phase flows on arbitrary geometries using unstructured meshes.

My current research focuses on wettability and phase-change phenomena at solid surfaces and is sponsored by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under fellowship grant 'Modelling surface effects in two-phase fluid processes across scales'.

Education

2009 BSc in Energy Engineering, University of Bologna

2012 MSc. in Energy Engineering, University of Bologna

2016 PhD Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London

Experience

2016-2020, Postdoctoral research associate, Imperial College London, Mechanical Engineering Department, Nuclear Engineering Group

2017-2019, Scientific administrator, Indo-UK Civil Nuclear Network

2020-2022, EPSRC Research Fellow, Imperial College London, Mechanical Engineering Department.

2022 - to date, Lecturer in Engineering Simulation and Data Science and EPSRC Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester.

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Animations from my research

CFD simulation of bubble release from a cavity during boiling of liquid sodium - temperature distribution around the bubbles: blue = cold, red = hot.
CFD simulation of pool boiling from a cavity in a pool of liquid sodium, using a novel method for capturing interfacial mass transfer implemented in the OpenFOAM code. Animation of phase distribution field - blue = sodium vapour, red = liquid sodium.