CV
Ekrem Ekici
Summary
Currently employed at KFUPM. Postdoctoral Fellow
Publications
- Shape Optimization for Thermoacoustic Instability (Oral Presentation)2022Presented in Rolls Royce Doctoral Network, Derby, UK
- Thermodynamic assessment of a geothermal power and cooling cogeneration system with cryogenic energy storage2022Energy Conversion and Management
- Adjoint Based Shape Optimization for Thermoacoustic Stability of Combustors using NURBS2023UK Fluids Conference, 17-19 October, Glasgow, UK
- Real-time parameter inference of nonlinear bluff-body-stabilized flame models using Bayesian neural network ensembles2023In the proceedings of Turbo Expo: Power for Land, Sea, and Air
- Shape Sensitivities for Thermoacoustic Stability of Annular Combustors.2023In the proceedings of Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion: Industry meets Academia (SoTiC), 11-14 September, Zurich, Switzerland
- Adjoint Based Shape Optimization for Thermoacoustic Stability of Combustors Using Free Form Deformation2024In the proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo, London, UK
- Adjoint Based Shape Optimization for Thermoacoustic Stability of Combustors using Free Form Deformation2024British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC), 9-11 April, Newcastle, UK
- Shape sensitivity of thermoacoustic oscillations in an annular combustor with a 3D adjoint Helmholtz solver2024Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
- Helmholtz-x: Parallelized adjoint open source solver for the thermoacoustic Helmholtz equation2025Engineering with Computers
- Shape Optimization of an Industrial Aeroengine Combustor to Reduce Thermoacoustic Instability2025Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power
Presentations
- Adjoint Based Shape Optimization for Thermoacoustic Stability of Combustors2023University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UKUpon Dr. Alexander Wray's invitation, I have given a seminer in Deparment of Engineering, University of Strathclyde.
- helmholtz-x : Parallelized Open-source Solver for Thermoacoustic Helmholtz Equation2024Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, GermanyI have given a talk about my solver **helmholtz-x** upon my visit of Wolfgang Polifke's research group.
- Adjoint-based Shape Optimization for Thermoacoustic Stability of Combustors Using Free Form Deformation (Poster Presentation)2024Flow instability, modelling and control, UK Fluids Network, Special Interest Groups, Imperial College London, London, UKI did a flash talk and poster presentation in Imperial College London upon invitation.
- Shape Optimization of Annular Combustors with an Open Source Parallelized ThermoacousticHelmholtz Solver2025Aerospace Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, TRI have given a talk about my helmholtz-x solver and its applications for combustor designs.
Teaching
- Aerospace Engineering Tutor2024University of Cambridge, Summer SchoolRole: Undergraduate course
- Demonstrator2022University of CambridgeRole: Undergraduate course
- Computer Science Tutor2024University of Cambridge, Summer SchoolRole: Undergraduate course
Portfolio
- Finite Element Method
- Metaheuristic optimizationPortfolioMetaheuristic approaches can be useful when solving combinatorial optimization problems.
- PulseVADPortfolioDeveloping the current VADs is vital to assist the increasing number of patients with heart failures.
- Thermoacoustic Instability
- Wound HealingPortfolioWound healing is a diffusion driven, millennium old phenomenon occurring in almost every creature.