Prof. Thorsten Stoesser

University College London

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Professor Thorsten Stoesser is the Leader of the Fluids Mechanics Research Group at the University College London. His research interest is in developing advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools and their application to solve environmental fluid mechanics problems. Thorsten has published over 100 peer reviewed journal papers on developing, testing and applying advanced CFD methods to predict the hydrodynamics and transport processes in rivers, estuaries and coastal waters, fluid-structure interaction of marine turbines, and the nearfield dynamics of jets and plumes. For his research Prof. Stoesser received twice the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Prize (2012 and 2016), in 2015 he won the International Association of Hydro-environmental Research (IAHR) Harold Shoemaker Award and in 2016 he won the Institution of Civil Engineers’ George Stephenson medal. He has received over £3.5M in funding from industry, government institutions and research councils including the DFG (Germany, NSF (USA) and EPSRC (UK).

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Computational Fluid Dynamics Numerical Modeling Numerical Simulation Fluid Mechanics CFD Simulation Turbulence Computational Fluid Mechanics Modeling and Simulation Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics CFD Coding

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
Committee on Fluid Mechanics
Committee on Coastal and Maritime Hydraulics

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
Committee on Fluid Mechanics	Vice Chair	2024-05-07	Now
Committee on Global Water Security	Member	2021-12-07	Now
Committee on Fluid Mechanics	Member	2021-07-01	2024-05-07
Global Water Security Working Group	Member	2020-03-01	Now
United Kingdom Chapter	Chair	2019-10-29	Now
JHR Editorial Board	Associate Editors	2013-01-01	Now

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
An Eulerian-Lagrangian Numerical Method to Predict Bubbly Flows	2018
Inferring Thermal Turbulent Structures Properties in the Wake of an Array Cylindrical Obstacles	2018
Flow resistance of in-line vegetation in open channel flow	2017
Effect of Three-Dimensional Mixing Conditions on Water Treatment Reaction Processes	2015
Disinfection Kinetics in CFD Modelling of Solute Transport in Contact Tanks	2014
CFD Study of Flow and Transport Characteristics in Baffled Disinfection Tanks	2013
CFD Modeling of Turbulent Jet Mixing in a Water Storage Tank	2007
Turbulent Open-Channel Flow over a Permeable Bed	2007
Double-Averaged Velocity Profile over Large-Scale Roughness	2005
Large Eddy Simulation of Open-Channel Flow over a Layer of Spheres	2005
Large Eddy Simulations of Flow over Two Dimensional Dunes	2005
Assessment of the Morphodynamic Development of Restored Flood Plains-Explained with the Measure at the Upper Rhine River Between Markt and Breisach	2004
On the Use of a 3D CFD Model to Simulate Reservoir Sedimentation Processes	1999

My Videos

Title	Year
Thorsten Stoesser - Water surface boils in open-channel flows-what lies beneath	2021
Thorsten Stoesser - Open-channel water surface boils: repercussion to bed generated turbulence?	2021

IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date
Harold Jan Schoemaker Award	2015