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Hendrik Nicolai

Title: 
Assistant Professor
Hendrik Nicolai
Contact Information
Address: 

Macdonald Engineering Building, Room 156

Email address: 
hendrik.nicolai [at] mcgill.ca
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Degree(s): 

Ph.D. Mechanical and Process Engineering, Technical University Darmstadt
M.A.Sc. Mechanical and Process Engineering, Technical University Darmstadt
B.A.Sc. Mechanical and Process, Technical University Darmstadt

Courses: 

MECH 265: Numerical Linear Algebra (3 credits)

MECH 309: Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering (3 credits)

MECH 501/600:聽Computational Turbulence (3/4 credits)

Research areas: 
Combustion and Energy Systems
Selected publications: 
  • Schneider, M., Rong, F. Z., Hasse, C., & Nicolai, H. (2026).聽Combustion modelling for the flame鈥搘all interaction of thermodiffusively unstable hydrogen/air flames. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1029, A36.聽
  • Nicolai, H., Schuh, V., B盲hr, A., Schneider, M., Rong, F., Kaddar, D., Bode, M. and Hasse, C., 2025.聽Laminar and turbulent hydrogen-enriched methane flames: Interaction of thermodiffusive instabilities and local fuel demixing.聽Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 41, p.105885.聽
  • Schuh, V., Kaddar, D., B盲hr, A., Bode, M., Hasse, C. and Nicolai, H., 2026.聽An Extended Artificially Thickened Flame Model for Turbulent Hydrogen and Hydrogen-Enriched Flames With Intrinsic Instabilities Under Gas Turbine Relevant Conditions.聽Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power,听148(2), p.021007.聽
  • Koob, P., Nicolai, H., Lindenthal, A., Witkind Hirth, F.A., B眉rkle, N., Soworka, T., Eggels, R., Clemen, C., Koch, R., Behrendt, T. and Schroll, M., 2025, June.聽Comprehensive Modeling of the Cause-And-Effect Chain in Aero-Engine Combustor Simulations: From Primary Breakup to Soot Formation.聽In Turbo Expo (Vol. 88780, p. V03AT04A005). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.聽
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Current research: 
  • Development and application of high-fidelity numerical models in reactive flows.
  • Scale-resolving simulations in reactive multi-phase flows under laminar and turbulent conditions
  • Collaborative research with industrial partners on gas turbines and aircraft engines, exploring the aerodynamic and thermal interactions.聽
  • Model Development and Simulation of zero-carbon fuels, such as hydrogen and hydrogen-ammonia mixtures.
Areas of interest: 
  • Direct Numerical Simulations, Large-Eddy Simulation and RANS simulations in the context of reacting flows.
  • Reduced-order Modeling of Technical Systems by Chemical Reactor Networks
  • Advanced flamelet-based tabulation approaches for laminar and turbulent reacting flows
  • Statistical and geometrical subgrid-scale turbulence-chemistry interaction Closures
  • Numerical methods for reactive flows targeting high-performance computing and GPU acceleration.
  • Higher-order Methods for Reacting Flows
Areas of expertise: 

Thermofluids

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