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prof.dr.ir. C.H. Venner (Kees)

Full Professor

About Me

Chair of the Engineering Fluid Dynamics Group. 

Research and teaching in fluid dynamics. Research themes led by scientific staff in the group are:

  • Rotating flow machines
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics Algorithms and Design
  • Aeroacoustics and Aerodynamics
  • Biomedical Fluid Mechanics
  • Fluid Mechanics of Functional Material

Chair of the Thermal Fluid Engineering department.

Lead the Me-MSc specialisation Energy & Flow until October 1 2023

Leading the Me-MSc specialisation "Aeronautics"

Leading he double degree program Mechanical Engineering (UTwente) and Aeronautical Engineering (ITA, Brazil)

PhD from University of Twente, 1991, in the area of Thin layer flow/Lubrication and Multigrid/Multilevel methods. Held visiting scientist and Postdoc positions at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, and at Imperial College, London, UK. 2000-2014 assistent/associate prof. in the Engineering Fluid dynamics group at the University of Twente. Senior visiting scientist at SKF RTD Houten, The Netherlands.

30+ years of expertise in theoretical and applied research and leading research projects in different areas in fluid mechanics, including small scale  thin layer flow and optimal interface design on a nanoscale in lubrication and microfluidics, biomedical fluid mechanics, wind turbines and aircraft aerodynamics/aeroacoustics, windturbines, Expertise in experimental and numerical methods among which Multigrid/multilevel methods for scientific computing.

Author of 100+ papers in international journals. h-factor 41 (google). Author of book "Multilevel methods in Lubrication (Elsevier).

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Expertise

Engineering & Materials Science
Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication
Film Thickness
Point Contacts
Wind Tunnels
Physics & Astronomy
Elastohydrodynamics
Film Thickness
Lubrication
Chemistry
Lubrication

Research

Research and teaching in fluid dynamics. Mission is to carry out research and provide teaching at a high academic level and directly link knowledge and applications to the solution of society's major problems nowadays, i.e. transition to a sustainable/resillient society, and contribute to a planet on which all living beings have space to live in healthy eco-systems and are treated with respect. In additional to the many technical applications I am intrigued by nature and the way in which all natural beings are perfectly adapted to the fluid mechanics and heat transfer of their natural habitat.

Research themes in the group Engineering Fluid Dynamics are:

  • Rotating flow machines
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics Algorithms and Design
  • Aeroacoustics and Aerodynamics
  • Biomedical Fluid Mechanics
  • Fluid Mechanics of Functional Materials

 

Publications

Recent
Mahajan, J. N. (2023). Design of energy efficient adaptive hearing protection device. [EngD Thesis, University of Twente]. University of Twente.
Zhang, M., Wang, J. , Venner, C. H., & Sun, H. (2023). A thermal EHL investigation for finite line contact under starved condition on bush-pin hinge pairs in industrial chains. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part J: Journal of engineering tribology, 237(5), 1119-1132. https://doi.org/10.1177/13506501221143071
Biesheuvel, J., Tuinstra, M. , de Santana, L. D. , & Venner, C. H. (2023). Acoustic Lucky Imaging for microphone phased arrays. Journal of sound and vibration, 544, [117357]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2022.117357
dos Santos, F. L. , Venner, K. , & de Santana, L. D. (2022). Turbulence distortion effects for leading-edge noise prediction. In Proceedings of the 28th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV 2022 (Proceedings of the International Congress on Sound and Vibration; Vol. 2022, No. 28). International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV).
dos Santos, F. L., Botero-Bolívar, L. , Venner, C. H. , & de Santana, L. D. (2022). Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Characteristics of the NACA 0008 Airfoil. In 33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2022 (Vol. 4, pp. 2674-2689). International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS). https://www.icas.org/ICAS_ARCHIVE/ICAS2022/data/preview/ICAS2022_0128.htm
Hoeijmakers, H. W. M., Groot Koerkamp, L. H. , de Santana, L. D. , Venner, C. H. , Stramigioli, S. , Mulder, J. L. , Brentjes, A., Gijsman, F., & Hartman, S. A. (2022). Investigation flapping-flight aerodynamics of a robotic bird. In 33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2022 (pp. 3326-3351). (33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2022; Vol. 5). International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS).
Meijerink, B. J. , Dos Santos, F. L., Botero-Bolívar, L. , Venner, C. H. , & de Santana, L. D. (2022). Angle of Attack Effects on the Wall-Pressure Fluctuations of an Airfoil in Turbulence. In 28th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, 2022 [AIAA 2022-3043] American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3043
Botero-Bolívar, L. , Dos Santos, F. L. , Venner, C. H. , & de Santana, L. (2022). Study of the Development of a Boundary Layer by Measuring the Unsteady Surface Pressure. In 28th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, 2022 [AIAA 2022-3012] American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3012
Dos Santos, F. L., Botero-Bolívar, L. , Venner, C. H. , & de Santana, L. D. (2022). On the turbulence distortion effects for airfoil leading-edge noise prediction. In 28th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, 2022 [AIAA 2022-3045] American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3045
Botero-Bolívar, L. , Dos Santos, F. L. , Venner, C. H. , & de Santana, L. (2022). Influence of the Free-stream Turbulence on an Airfoil’s Wall-pressure Fluctuations. In 28th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, 2022 [AIAA 2022-3102] American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3102
Dos Santos, F. L. , Venner, C. H. , & de Santana, L. (2022). Tripping device effects on the turbulent boundary layedevelopment. In AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum [AIAA 2022-3332] American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3332

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Education

Secondary school "Bisschop Bekkers College" Eindhoven, the Netherlands. MSc. (1987) and PhD (1991) from University of Twente, in the area of Thin layer flow/Lubrication and Multigrid/Multilevel methods. Recipient of a Royal Society "Academie-onderzoeker" grant in 1990.  Held visiting scientist and Postdoc positions at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (1988-2002) , and at Imperial College, London, UK. 2000-2014assistent/associate prof. in the Engineering Fluid dynamic group at the University of Twente. Senior visiting scientist at SKF RTD Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.

Courses Academic Year  2023/2024

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
 

Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

Contact Details

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University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex (building no. 20), room N246
De Horst 2
7522LW  Enschede
The Netherlands

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University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex  N246
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands