About me
I work as a scientist at SINTEF Energy Research in Trondheim, Norway. My research interests mainly lie in the intersection between fluid mechanics, molecular dynamics and thermodynamics, with a particular focus on interfacial phenomena.
For my PhD, I developed multiscale numerical methods for understanding small water drops inside oil, and how they behave when subjected to an electric field. Using molecular dynamics, I worked on computing interfacial properties caused by real crude oil components called asphaltenes, and subsequently we used these properties in CFD simulations to explain the crumpling of droplets which are deflated. You can read all about it in my thesis (PDF), or look at a slide show based on my thesis defence (big file, takes time to load).
Contact info:
email: asmund.ervik@NOSPAM.sintef.no (without the "NOSPAM.").
phone: ((+47)) (970) 03466
My office is in room A306 of "Varmeteknisk laboratorium".
Besides the science:
I live in Trondheim, Norway with my wife Elisa and my daughters Aurora and
Runa. In the winter I go skiing alot, and in summer I skateboard and
snorkle when I can find the time. Sometimes
I take my Fortran and go
code golfing.
My work
Collaborators outside SINTEF:
Bernhard MüllerNTNU
Prof. Erich A.
Müller, Imperial College London
Prof. Jean-Luc Reboud, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
Dr. Erik Bjørklund, Wärtsilä Oil and Gas Systems
Reproducible science:
As students we are taught that science should be reproducible, but the
rapid evolution of computational science has left this ideal as often
unfulfilled.
The current
"Reproducible
Research"
movement
aims to rectify this. I strive to live up to this ideal through the data, code and documents posted at
my Figshare
site and at my Bitbucket
site.
[DOI] [arXiv]
» (with K. Y. Lervåg and S. T. Munkejord, 2013).
A robust method for calculating interface curvature and normal
vectors using an extracted local level set.
Journal of Computational Physics 257, Part A, 259-277.
[DOI]
» (with M. Hammer and S. T. Munkejord, 2013).
Method Using a Density–Energy State Function with a Reference Equation of State for Fluid-Dynamics Simulation of Vapor–Liquid–Solid Carbon Dioxide.
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 52 (29), 9965-9978.
[Slides]
» (with M. O. Lysgaard, C. Herdes, E. A. Müller, S. T. Munkejord and B. Müller, 2015).
A Multiscale Coarse-Grained Molecular and Continuum Model for
the Flow of Droplets in Oil With Asphaltenes.
PetroPhase 2015.
[arXiv]
» (with S. T. Munkejord and B. Müller, 2014).
Extending a serial 3D two-phase CFD code to parallel execution over MPI by using the PETSc library for domain decomposition.
CFD2014: The 10th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics In the Oil & Gas, Metallurgical and Process Industries.
[DOI] [arXiv] [Poster]
» (with S. M. Hellesø, S. T. Munkejord and B. Müller, 2014).
Experimental and computational studies of water drops falling through model oil with surfactant and subjected to an electric field.
ICDL 2014: The IEEE 18th International Conference on Dielectric Liquids.
[PDF]
» (with H. Amrouche et al., 2013).
Application of molecular simulation techniques to CCS activities.
The 7th Trondheim CCS Conference.
[PDF]
» (with A. Brunsvold and H. Zhao, 2013).
Experimental methods for investigating the discrete droplet
impact phenomena of a model fluid relevant for LNG heat exchangers.
The ASME 2013 Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting.
[PDF]
» (with K. Y. Lervåg, 2011).
[arXiv]
Curvature calculations for the level-set method.
ENUMATH 2011 proceedings volume, Springer.
[PDF]
» Å. Ervik (2012).
“The local level-set extraction method for robust calculation of geometric quantities in the level-set method”.
NTNU.
Here is my CV and the LaTeX source it was built from.
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