Vehicle Thermal Management Systems Conference and Exhibition - VTMS 14

Scott Porteous: Ricardo Lead Analyst, Ricardo UK Ltd

Scott has nine years of experience with Ricardo having worked there since graduating from Loughborough University with a Masters in Automotive Engineering. He now leads the 1D thermal fluids team located within the Analysis Capability Group and had a specialist interest in advanced vehicle thermal management solutions and waste heat recovery. Currently Scott is working as a Ricardo Lead Analyst on the thermal optimisation workstream of APC’s Latitude project as well as Chief Engineer on an ORC demonstrator programme

Ed Tate: Director of Experience Management for Transportation and Mobility Solutions, Simulia

Dr Edward Tate is the Director of Experience Management for Transportation and Mobility solutions at Simulia. In this role, he helps customers deploy Simulia’s solutions so they design better vehicles faster, with less expense and risk. He has over 25 years of experience working in the automotive industry with suppliers and OEMs. He worked on many vehicle programs including the General Motors EV1 and the Chevrolet Volt. His long-term focus is on improving vehicle efficiency, performance, and comfort. He holds more than 30 patents covering vehicle electrification, batteries, thermal management, diagnostics, and controls. He continues to work on developing and delivering solutions that improve vehicles so they operate better anywhere and in any conditions.

Michael Hauenstein: Team Leader Thermal Simulation, Autoneum Management AG

Michael Hauenstein leads the aero/thermal simulation team at the research department of Autoneum. He has collected many years of experience as senior engineer and software developer in the fields of thermal management, aerodynamics and measurement systems. Besides the work on innovation and customer projects, his research also focuses on methodology development and validation, for example on coupling techniques for complex transient scenarios like engine bay cool-down and cabin comfort simulations. Furthermore, he concentrates on the development and integration of in-house tools and methods to enhance simulation capabilities in general.

Peter Connor: Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham

Peter H. Connor received an M.Eng. and Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of Nottingham, UK, in 2009 and 2014 respectively. He is a Senior Research Fellow in the Fluids and Thermal Engineering Research Group and the Power Electronics, Machines and Control Research Group in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham. His research interests are mechanical design and thermal management of electrical machines for industrial power generation and high-speed, high power-density traction and aerospace applications.

Ian Turner: Senior Aerodynamicist, Williams Advanced Engineering

A graduate in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Glasgow and with an MSc in Motorsport Engineering and Management from Cranfield University, Ian has spent most of his career at Williams specialising in aerodynamics.

Ian began with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) team and subsequently moved into the Williams wind tunnel where he worked on Formula One cars; specifically focusing on the front wing, an area critical to aerodynamic performance.

This mix of CFD and wind tunnel experience has provided Ian with a wide range of skills on which he has built during his subsequent move into Williams Advanced Engineering in 2014. As Senior Aerodynamicist for the technology and engineering services business of the Williams Group, Ian now works on a diverse range of projects across multiple sectors, such as automotive, specifically concept cars, refrigeration, sports science and energy storage.

Prior to joining Williams Ian worked for the Ford Motor Company and also for Rolls-Royce Aero Engines.

Torkel Stengvist: Application Engineer, Gränges Research and Innovation

Torkel Stenqvist, received a M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden. Mr Stenqvist worked with austenitic and duplex stainless steel development at Sandvik Steel, Sandviken Sweden, between ‘88 and ‘92. (Mainly corrosion, strength, and welding.) He was employed by Gränges in ’92, in the development company (today Gränges Research and Innovation) in Finspång, Sweden. There he was part in developing aluminium alloys for the automotive brazing industry – mainly new core materials. In 2000 he became an “Application engineer” at Gränges Sweden, supporting the sales, quality, and process development departments, as well as the customers with material knowledge. After ten years he moved back to research, doing more fundamental research in areas important for the brazing process, the material behaviour during the brazing, and the properties of the brazed product.

Diego Davila: Senior Engineering Services Engineer, Siemens Industry Software

Diego holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering by the University of Vigo (Spain). After some time working in the Computational Fluid Dynamics research group at university, he joined CD adapco in 2011 (now part of Siemens Industry Software). He has since been working in the Engineering Services group, where he has carried out many projects for clients, focusing on the fields of fluid dynamics, thermal engineering, fluid-structure interaction and most recently system simulation. He has worked in a variety of industries, such as automotive, nuclear, telecommunications, personal care, marine, etc.

Philippe Gyan: Innovation Pilot Battery System Modeling Research Engineer, Renault

Philippe GYAN graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon with a Master of Science in 1998, and with a Ph.D in 2003, in Mechanical Engineering, Energy and Thermal Management. He worked then at Renault Mechanical Department, on the deployment of calculation tools for vehicle performances and fuel economy. Since 2008, he has been working in the Research Department at Renault on powertrain sizing for Electric Vehicles, on battery electrical, thermal, and ageing modelling. He contributed in several French national and European collaborative projects SIMSTOCK, SIMCAL, MOBICUS, and MAT4BAT, on battery ageing modeling, with several publications, and presentations in international conferences.

David Greenwood: Professor, Advanced Propulsion Systems, Warwick Manufacturing Group

David Greenwood is Professor of Advanced Propulsion Systems and Director of Energy at WMG, The University of Warwick. His research spans batteries, electric motors, power electronics, and the integration and control of these for propulsion and energy applications.

He joined WMG in 2014 from engineering consultancy Ricardo UK Ltd where he was Head of Hybrid and Electric Systems leading advanced technology projects for OEM and Tier 1 customers in passenger cars, defence, motorsport and the clean energy markets.

Professor Greenwood holds advisory and board positions for the Advanced Propulsion Centre, Innovate UK (Faraday Challenge and IDP), EPSRC (Energy), and the Faraday Institution. He is head of the Advanced Propulsion Centre's Electrical Energy Storage Spoke. 

Jason King: Business Development Director, Integral Powertrain Ltd

After graduation in 1993, Jason started his career at Perkins Engines, and this was then followed by 9 years at Cosworth from 1997 to 2006. After a short spell at Tata Motor European Technical Centre he then spent 7 years at Ricardo as a Chief Engineer in the Hybrid & Electric Systems Product Group, leading the Innovate UK HyBoost and ADEPT programmes amongst others. Since joining Integral Powertrain in 2014 he has been responsible for multiple road and race car electric motor and inverter projects. Integral Powertrain has world leading capability in electric machines and drives, hybridisation and boosting technology.

Alexander Herzog: Technical Consultant, IAV GmbH

I received my diploma in physics from the University of Stuttgart in 2007. In the same year, I started working as a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in the department for theoretical physics in Stuttgart. At the same time, I was employed as a lecturer in Technical Physics at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Stuttgart. In 2010 I got my PhD from the Technical University in Kaiserslautern. I started working as a development engineer at IAV in 2010, where I operated as a subproject leader for model-based charge-air-temperature control from 2012 to 2013 and as a technical project leader for thermal management in 2014. In 2015, I became a technical consultant for thermal management. As such, I am responsible for research and development in this field. Also since 2015, I am a lecturer in automotive mechatronics at the Technical University of Clausthal.

Anna Rubekina: Quality Assurance Engineer , Mentor Graphics Corp., Russia

In 2007, Anna graduated Lomonosov Moscow State University, faculty of mechanics and mathematics with specialization in fluid dynamics. After finishing successfully education, Anna worked in gas turbine industry as CFD specialist. In 2015, she joined Mechanical Analysis Division of Mentor Graphics Corporation. My current position is quality assurance engineer of FloEFD technological core. Anna am focus on testing and validation of physical models and features relevant to science-consuming industry including EV.

Antonino La Rocca: Research Fellow, University of Nottingham

Antonino La Rocca received a Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of Nottingham, UK, in 2016. He is a Research Fellow in the Fluids and Thermal Engineering Research Group and the Power Electronics, Machines and Control Research Group in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham. His research field is the thermo-mechanical modelling of high speed and high power dense electrical machines and power electronics designs for advanced generation and propulsion systems by the use of Lumped Parameters Thermal networks (LPTN) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and FEA.

Chris Hebert: Engineering Director – Aerodynamics , D2H

Chris Hebert is the Engineering Director – Aerodynamics for D2H, a consultancy based in Buckingham, UK offering aerodynamic, thermodynamic, design and FEA services to motorsport, Olympic Sport, automotive and high-performance engineering companies around the globe. Prior to this Chris was Head of Aerodynamics for Toyota Motorsport and fulfilled various aero trackside and development roles for the Red Bull and Jaguar Formula 1 teams.

Dom Dathan: Aerothermal Engineer, D2H

After graduating from Cambridge University with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Dom joined D2H in 2015 as an Aerothermal Engineer. He has since been involved in a range of cutting-edge projects for many multinational motorsport, automotive and technology-focused clients including the design & wind tunnel testing of the latest ‘go-faster’ parts for our summer and winter Olympians, generation of high-speed algorithms and mining tools for experimental data processing, right through to creating accurate physics-based models of vehicle braking systems for aero-thermal evaluation.

Dig Vijay: Application Engineer – Thermal Management, Gamma Technologies

Dig earned his master’s degree in energy systems from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India) in 2012. He received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Technical University Freiberg (Germany) in 2016. My Ph.D. research was focused on forced convective heat transfer through high porosity open cell foams. He is currently working as an application engineer at the European office of Gamma Technologies in Germany. In his current role at Gamma Technologies his primary focus is on the thermal management of conventional and electrified vehicles. For many years he is active in the automobile sector with a main focus on 1D/3D computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer analyses of existing and forthcoming technologies

Christian Rathberger: Senior Manager department - Thermal and Manufacturing Solutions, Magna Powertrain

• Studies of Technical Mathematics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (1994-2002)
• Work at Engineering Center Steyr, MAGNA Powertrain as Software Developer (Thermal Management Software KULI) and Thermal Management Engineer (2002-2011)
• 2011-today: Manager and Senior Manager for Vehicle Thermal Management and related software development (KULI).
• Strong focus on e-mobility related thermal management topics in recent years.

Xavier Moya: Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Cambridge

Xavier Moya is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge. He received his BSc in Physics in 2003, and his PhD in Physics in 2008, from the University of Barcelona. He has been a Fellow of Churchill College since 2014. His research focuses on magnetocaloric materials, electrocaloric materials and mechanocaloric (elastocaloric and barocaloric) materials for environmentally friendly cooling applications. He is the recipient of the prestigious Young Researcher in Experimental Physics Prize 2015, awarded by the Spanish Royal Society of Physics to researchers of exceptional scientific talent aged under 35, the prestigious Emerging Talent Award 2017, awarded by the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK to researchers aged under 40 with an outstanding scientific trajectory, and the USERN Prize in Physical Sciences 2018, awarded by the UNESCO Universal Scientific Education and Research Network to researchers aged under 40 for a significant advancement in scientific research.

Gerald Seider: Consultant, InDesA GmbH

Dr. Seider studied mechanical engineering/aerospace at the Technical University of Aachen (Germany) and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (USA). He continued his studies after his diploma at the Aerodynamic Institute in Aachen where he received his doctoral degree on the simulation of airfoil aerodynamics. In 1991 he joined BMW Powertrain being responsible for CAE application with respect to thermal design and analysis of gasoline engines as well as for cooling systems. Leaving BMW after sixteen interesting years Dr. Seider started his own services and consultancy company InDesA GmbH in May 2008.

Zachary J. Edel: Senior Research Engineer, ThermoAnalytics, Inc.

At ThermoAnalytics, Dr. Edel is a Senior Research Engineer and the chief engineer of the TAITherm battery extension. He is involved in thermal/electric and thermal/CFD simulation, advanced physics modeling, algorithm development, and multi-physics coupling. Dr. Edel has over 11 years of research experience developing advanced physics models, performing numerical modeling, and performing experimentation and data analysis. He developed the TAI-NREL battery lifetime simulation approach and has given numerous presentations at international conferences on battery lifetime modeling, battery thermal runaway modeling, and battery thermal management. In 2013, he received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics from Michigan Technological University.

Andy Jones: Design Engineer, HiETA Technologies Ltd

Andy Jones has a background in multidisciplinary consultancy. He now specialises in developing technology through the design freedoms of additive manufacture.

Alex Redwood: Head of Design, HiETA Technologies Ltd

Alex Redwood is Head of Design at Additive Manufacturing (AM) & thermal management specialists HiETA Technologies Ltd based in Bristol. Graduating from Swansea University with an MSc in Aerospace Engineering, he joined the Aerospace design consultancy Assystem, as a Structural Design Engineer. Here, he worked on the Airbus A380 and A350XWB production programs as well as providing in service support to Rolls-Royce military fleet. He then became Lead Design Engineer on A350 XWB Wingtip Test program, before joining HiETA technologies in March 2015. At HiETA Technologies, Alex leads design engineering activities covering heat rejection systems, turbo machinery and micro gas turbine systems.

Cedric Rouaud: Project Director, Ricardo UK Ltd

Dr. Cedric Rouaud is Global Technical Expert for Ricardo in thermal management and waste heat recovery for conventional and electrified vehicles (passenger car and commercial vehicles including battery, electric motor, power electronics) since 2017. He joined Ricardo in 2008 as principal thermal engineer and since 2011 he was chief engineer for powertrain development and thermal management expert. He began his professional career in Renault as a research thermal engineer in 2000, while fulfilling his doctorate diploma in the University of Poitiers on thermal management of hybrid electric vehicle. He was thermal management chief engineer in Renault until 2008. During his career, he has managed projects on thermal management for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, performing simulations and tests (test rig and vehicle) including development of advanced technologies improving heat transfer methods and advanced thermal control methods.

Emily Tao: Engine Technology – Functional Test Engineer, Advanced Engine, SAIC Motor UK Technical Centre Limited

Emily Tao graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2011 with a 1st Class Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering. Following that she obtained a Master degree from Imperial College London. In 2013, She joined SMTC UK on the Graduate Development Program within the Advanced Engines department. Since completing the program, she works as a Functional Test Engineer specialising in thermal systems, responsible for thermal technology development and testing.

George Corfield: Engine Technology – Senior Manager, Advanced Engine, SAIC Motor UK Technical Centre Limited

George Corfield graduated from Swansea University in 2005 with a 1st class Honours degree in Automotive Engineering. His first graduate job was at Prodrive Automotive Technology but quickly progressed into MotorSport holding the role of Senior Powertrain Development Engineer for Subaru & Mini World Rally Team. In 2012 George moved to SMTC-UK where he currently holds the position of Engine Technology Senior Manager. In this position he is responsible for Powertrain Technology Selection and Development.

Fabien Fiquet: Project Engineer- Simulation, Ricardo

Fabien graduated in 2014 with a Master's Degree in Automotive Engineering from ESTACA and a MSc in Advanced Motorsport Engineering from Cranfield University. He has since been working at Ricardo UK as a simulation engineer. He first worked in the Technical Consulting team, on performance simulation activities including 1D engine and hybrid vehicle modelling applied to passenger cars and HDVs. In 2016, he joined Ricardo Innovations, focusing on the development of Ricardo's integrated model-based development toolchain. He continuously develops the toolchain to better capture complex interactions between vehicle systems and the environment, under real driving conditions, to allow complete modelling and global optimisation of vehicle operation to deploy cleaner, more energy efficient and cost-effective transportation solutions.

Jeremy Kroeker: Dana Incorporated, Research Analyst

Jeremy Kroeker is a research analyst with Dana Incorporated. Joining the company in 2016 as a mechanical designer, he is a member of Dana’s heat transfer analytical development group. In this role, he focuses on developing fundamental testing to improve understanding of heat exchanger durability and analyzes Dana’s thermal products for conformance with durability requirements in electric, plug-in hybrid, oil, and fuel thermal management systems.

Mustafa Nomani: Senior Manager, Tata Motors Limited

Working in the domain of in-cabin flow and thermal simulations, for passenger and commercial vehicles, under Digital Validation Group in Tata Motors for six years. Simulation experience include flow and thermal analysis of the HVAC system, majorly on cooling aspect, and its optimization using mathematical models and computational fluid dynamics to model the human thermal physiology and its allied parameters inside the vehicle cabin to improve the passenger thermal comfort. Completed Bachelor in Engineering in the field of Automobile from the University of Mumbai and has completed Master’s in the field of Thermal and Fluid Engineering from IIT Guwahati.

Konstantinos Karamanos: PhD Student, Queen's University Belfast

Konstantinos Karamanos is a PhD student at Queen’s university of Belfast. He is currently on the second year of his PhD and the aim of his project is to develop a multi-fidelity model that analyses the heat transfer characteristics of the under-hood thermal systems of a diesel bus. He has obtained a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northumbria University and an MSc in Renewable Energy from Durham University.

Robin Francis: CTO, Kernoite Ltd

Arne Schlegel: Research Engineer Heat Exchanger, Aleris

Mike Kean: _, Sunamp

Antoine Delacroix: _, Toyota Europe SA, Belgium

Robert Corbishley: _, MAHLE Powertrain Ltd