Robin Kamenicky

Experience

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  Motorola Solutions

  Aug 2014 - Oct 2014

  Technical internship

  IT customer service support in Mobile Lifecycle Management team. Customers were situated in Great Britain. Issues were about barcode readers and were comunicated mainly over a phone and an email.

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  Emerson

  Nov 2014 - Jun 2015

  Development of CO2 reciprocating compressor – master's thesis

  The development of CO2 reciprocating compressor was a topic of my diploma thesis. The goal of the work was to increase compressor COP, which was successfully done. Ansys WB was used for static structural analysis, modal analysys and CFD analysis. English was the language of the thesis. This was made possible because of cooperation between Brno University of Technology and Emerson Climate Technologies.

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  Techno-Consult interiery obchod

  Sept 2015 - Dec 2015

  Mechanical Designer

  I designed store equipment using SolidWorks CAD software.The main languages used at the workplace were German and Czech.

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  Centrum výzkumu Řež / Research Centre Řež

  Feb 2016 - Nov 2017

  Research Scientist

  The work focused on the R&D of plasma-facing components for nuclear fusion. I took part in a few different projects, where I was in charge of structural mechanics and fluid dynamics analyses using Ansys Workbench and OpenFOAM. Nonetheless, projects were often approached by a team of computational specialists, mechanical designers, manufacturers and experimental researchers.The tokamak divertor mock-up development project was one of the most challenging problems due to the heat load it absorbs (up to 20 MW/m2). It required unique mechanical solutions to reduce secondary stress from high-temperature gradients. Once the component was finished, it was used for commissioning tests of high heat flux testing facility in a laboratory in the Czech Republic. The facility is used for the validation of first wall ITER components.A design of first wall samples for experimental testing of various cooling concepts considered for DEMO thermonuclear fusion reactor was the second project. Three designs were proposed and tested. These included counterflow pipes configuration, pipe with inserted twisted tape and hypervapotron.Other work I took part in was numerical calculations and development of radiative cooling concepts for the DEMO fusion reactor, and introduction of OpenFOAM software within the Research Centre Rez. Show less

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  University of Strathclyde

  Jan 2018 - Dec 2022

  The main research objective was to develop and validate a numerical methodology to describe physics during immersion quenching, a manufacturing procedure used to alter metallic components properties. This metallurgical process consists of two major elements: metallic component temperature elevation and its rapid cooling. Due to the high-temperature range within the solid, four heat transfer regimes may appear when water is the coolant. That leads to very distinct cooling behaviour and complex physical phenomena. To fulfil the project aim, two computational regions, solid and fluid, were defined. These were allowed to interact and exchange information at their interface. Each region was governed by different equations, and fluid was allowed to boil. Frequent interaction with the C++ source code was necessary to progress beyond the state of the art. The software of choice was OpenFOAM. The project was done in cooperation with Aubert & Duval company and Advanced Forming Research Centre. Show less

  • Honorary Research Fellow

    May 2022 - Dec 2022

  • Research Associate

    Jan 2022 - May 2022

  • PhD student

    Nov 2017 - Dec 2021

  • Teaching Assistant

    Sept 2018 - Jun 2021

  • Consultant

    Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
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  Tokamak Energy

  May 2022 - now

  Development of divertor cooling technologies for thermonuclear fusion spherical tokamak.

  • Plasma Facing Components Cooling Systems Section Lead

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Divertor Development Engineer

    May 2022 - Aug 2022