Lubomir Bures

• Fundamental study on microlayer forming process in nucleate boiling
• Development of the CFD code PSI-BOIL

Spring semester 2021 - teaching assistant ETH Zurich, Computational Multiphase Thermal Fluid Dynamics

Fall semester 2020 - semester project supervision, Mingzheng Gong (EPFL), topic: Direct numerical simulation of  sodium boiling 

Spring semester 2020 - teaching assistant ETH Zurich, Computational Multiphase Thermal Fluid Dynamics

Spring semester 2019 - teaching assistant ETH Zurich, Computational Multiphase Thermal Fluid Dynamics

Spring semester 2019 - master project supervision, Kin Wing Wong (EPFL), topic: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Studies on Forced Convective Heat Transfer for Internally Heated Flows

• K. W. Wong, L. Bures and K. Mikityuk (2020). CFD Study of the Effect of Sliding Bubbles on Heat transfer in Laminar Regime, in: Proceedings of  the International Topical Meeting on Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH'20), accepted, delayed due to Covid-19

Fall semester 2018 - semester project supervision, Kin Wing Wong (EPFL), topic: Direct numerical simulation of molten salt boiling 

•   K. W. Wong, L. Bures, S. Nichenko  and J. Krepel (2019). DNS of the Molten Salt Bubble Growth with PSI-BOIL, presented at ICAPP 2019 – International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, Juan-les-pins, France, May 2019

• 2018-now PhD student (EPF Lausanne)
• 2016-2018 MSc Nuclear Engineering (Joint Swiss Master ETH Zurich-EPF Lausanne)
• 2013-2016 BSc Nuclear Engineering (Czech Technical University in Prague)

• ORCID, Author ID: :0000-0001-6204-0938

 Journal papers

• L. Bures and Y. Sato (2021). On the modelling of the transition between contact-line and microlayer evaporation regimes in nucleate boiling, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 916, A53, DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2021.204
• L. Bures and Y. Sato (2021). Direct numerical simulation of evaporation and condensation with the geometric VOF method and a sharp-interface phase-change model, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 173, 121233, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121233
• L. Bures, Y. Sato and A. Pautz (2021). Piecewise linear interface-capturing volume-of-fluid method in axisymmetric cylindrical coordinates, Journal of Computational Physics, 436, 110291, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110291
• L. Bures and Y. Sato (2020). Direct Numerical Simulation of Phase Change in the Presence of Non-Condensable Gases, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 151, 119400, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.119400
• L. Bures and S. Caruso (2018). Acropolis: Novel Approach to Single-Pin Depletion Calculations Using Stochastic Optimization, Nuclear Science and Engineering, 191:1, 66-84, DOI: 10.1080/00295639.2018.1442059

Conference contributions

• L. Bures and Y. Sato (2020). Sharp-interface phase-change model with the VOF method, in: Proceedings of the 5th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC), 63-66, DOI: 10.1615/TFEC2020.cmd.031939
• L. Bures and Y. Sato (2019). New contact line region model for multi-scale analysis of nucleate boiling, presented at SWEP2 – Surface Wettability Effects on Phase Change Phenomena workshop, Mons, Belgium, June 2019

October 2019 - now: President of the PhD and Postdoc Association at PSI