Tadej Holler

Research Assistant

Jožef Stefan
Institute
Jamova cesta 39
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

Phone: +386 1 5885 286
Fax: +386 1 5885 377
E-mail: tadej.holler@ijs.si

Research Interests

• Computational modelling of hydrogen combustion

Education

• PhD student, Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, from October 2012
• B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maribor, 2012

Professional Experience

• October 2012 - ; Employed at "Jožef Stefan" Institute
• September 2016 - September 2017; organizing committee chair of international conference "Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2017"
• September 2013 - March 2014; Research cooperation at Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group - NRG, Petten, The Netherlands

Awards

• "ETSON Award 2018" for collaborative papers of junior experts.
• Award for the best contribution in the Special Contest for Young Authors at the conference "Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2018".
• Best paper award in the Student Competition at the 24th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE24).

Professional Societies

• Nuclear Society of Slovenia ("Društvo jedrskih strokovnjakov Slovenije" - DJS)
• The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Selected Publications

Articles in SCI Journals

HOLLER, Tadej, KOMEN, Ed. M. J., KLJENAK, Ivo. The role of CFD combustion modeling in hydrogen safety management. VII., Validation for hydrogen deflagration in large-scale hydrogen-air-steam experiment. Nuclear Engineering and Design : international journal devoted to the thermal, mechanical and structural problems of nuclear energy, ISSN 0029-5493. [Print ed.], 2019, vol. 342, str. 133-246, doi: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2018.11.033. [COBISS.SI-ID 31940135]

HOLLER, Tadej, KOMEN, Ed. M. J., KLJENAK, Ivo. Hydrogen-air-steam deflagration experiment simulated using different turbulent flame-speed closure models. Journal of nuclear engineering and radiation science, ISSN 2332-8975, [in press] 2018, 36 str., doi: 10.1115/1.4039067. [COBISS.SI-ID 31135271] 

CUTRONO RAKHIMOV A., A., VISSER, D. C., HOLLER, Tadej, KOMEN, Ed. M. J. The role of CFD combustion modeling in hydrogen safety management - V: validation for slow deflagrations in homogeneous hydrogen-air experiments. VI., Validation for slow deflagration in homogeneous hydrogen-air-steam experiments. Nuclear Engineering and Design, ISSN 0029-5493. [Print ed.], 2017, vol. 311, str. 142-155, doi: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2016.11.034. [COBISS.SI-ID 30051879]

Technical report

HOLLER, Tadej, KOMEN, Ed. M. J., KLJENAK, Ivo. Pre-test simulations of hydrogen deflagration experiment in HYMIT experimental facility, (IJS delovno poročilo, 12192). 2016. [COBISS.SI-ID 29862439]

Published scientific conference contribution

HOLLER, Tadej, KOMEN, Ed. M. J., KLJENAK, Ivo. CFD and LP simulations of ENACCEF2 hydrogen fast deflagration experiment. V: CIZELJ, Leon (ur.), HOLLER, Tadej (ur.). Proceedings, 26th International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe - NENE 2017, Bled, Slovenia, September 11-14, 2017. Ljubljana: Društvo jedrskih strokovnjakov Slovenije: = Nuclear Society of Slovenia. 2017, str. 418.1-418.8. [COBISS.SI-ID 31098151] 

HOLLER, Tadej, HU, Po, ZHAI, Shuwei, KOMEN, Ed. M. J., KUZNETSOV, Mikhail, KLJENAK, Ivo. FD-based pre-test and post-test simulations of medium-scale hydrogen deflagration experiment. V: Digital proceedings, ECM 2017, 8th European Combustion Meeting, 18th to 21st of April 2017, Dubrovnik, Croatia. [S. l.: s. n.]. 2017, str. 1196-1200. [COBISS.SI-ID 30482983]

HOLLER, Tadej, HU, Po, ZHAI, Shuwei, KOMEN, Ed. M. J., KUZNETSOV, Mikhail, KLJENAK, Ivo. CFD-based blind simulation of medium-scale hydrogen deflagration experiment. V: A new paradigm in nuclear power safety, ICAPP 2017 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, April 14-28, 2017, Fukui and Kyoto. [S. l.]: Atomic Energy Society of Japan. 2017, str. 17216-1-17216-6. [COBISS.SI-ID 30482471]

HOLLER, Tadej, HU, Po, ZHAI, Shuwei, KOMEN, Ed. M. J., KUZNETSOV, Mikhail, KLJENAK, Ivo. CFD and lumped-parameter simulations of medium-scale hydrogen deflagration experiment in the hymit experimental facility. V: NURETH-17, 17th International Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Sept. 3-8, 2017, X'ian, China. [S. l.]: American Nuclear Society. 2017, 11 str. [COBISS.SI-ID 30772775]

HOLLER, Tadej, GHIONZOLI, P. B., KOMEN, Ed. M. J. CFD-based validation of different combustion models for slow hydrogen deflagration. V: NURETH-17, 17th International Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Sept. 3-8, 2017, X'ian, China. [S. l.]: American Nuclear Society. 2017, 11 str. [COBISS.SI-ID30772519]

HOLLER, Tadej, JAIN, Varun, KOMEN, Ed. M. J., KLJENAK, Ivo. Large-scale homogeneous hydrogen-air-steam deflagration experiment simulated using two turbulent flame speed clore models. V: ICONE24, The 24th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, June 26-30, 2016, Charlotte, NC, USA. [S. l.]: ASME = American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 2016, 6 str. [COBISS.SI-ID 29621799]

HOLLER, Tadej, KOMEN, Ed. M. J., KLJENAK, Ivo. Comparison of CFD and LP codes for the simulation of hydrogen combustion experiments. V: SNOJ, Luka (ur.), LENGAR, Igor (ur.). Proceedings, 25th International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe - NENE 2016, Portorož, Slovenia, September 5-8, 2016. Ljubljana: Nuclear Society of Slovenia. 2016, str. 809.1-809.12. [COBISS.SI-ID 30223399]

HOLLER, Tadej, KOMEN, Ed. M. J., KLJENAK, Ivo. Flame propagation dependency analysis on confinement geometry shape in hydrogen-air-steam combustion simulations. V: World Congress on Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer, MHMT 2016, April 4-5, 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. Ottawa: International ASET Inc., str. 113-1-113-7, doi: 10.11159/csp16.113. [COBISS.SI-ID 30145063]

HOLLER, Tadej, JAIN, V., KOMEN, E. M. J. Validation of two turbulent flame speed closure models for slow and fast hydrogen deflagration. V: NURETH-16, 16th International Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, August 30 - September 4, 2015, Chicago, IL, USA. [S. l.]: American Nuclear Society. 2015, str. 749-760. [COBISS.SI-ID 29063719]

HOLLER, Tadej, KLJENAK, Ivo, KOMEN, Ed. M. J. Simulation of hydrogen combustion experiment in large-scale experimental facility with ANSYS fluent CFD code. V: JENÄŒIÄŒ, Igor (ur.). Proceedings, 24th International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe - NENE 2015, Portorož, Slovenia, September 14-17. Ljubljana: Nuclear Society of Slovenia. 2015, str. 504.1.-504.8. [COBISS.SI-ID 29174055]

Published scientific conference contribution abstract

HOLLER, Tadej, KOMEN, Ed. M. J., KLJENAK, Ivo. Two combustion modeling approaches for simulation of the large-scale homogeneous hydrogen-air-steam deflagration experiment. V: CHABIŃSKI, MichaÅ‚ (ed.). Proceedings of the XXII. International Symposium on Combustion Processes, 22-25 September 2015, Gliwice, Poland : [book of abstracts]. Gliwice: Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Thermal Technology, 2015, pp. 63-64. [COBISS.SI-ID 29196327]

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ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7053-7626