David Hartwanger
Professional Activities
Industry Sectors
- Steel industry
- Rolling and cold mill research investigations
- Engineering Education
- Design of pressure and gravity driven pipe flows
- Design of open channel & water hammer test apparatus
- Pharmaceutical
- Chemical mixer analysis and design
- Marine
- Rowing oar hydrodynamics analysis
- Hydrodynamics of a range of craft
- Design of sporting surf-skis
- Rotating Machinery
- Centrifugal pump design
- Axial fan design
- Positive displacement pumps
- Wind turbine analysis & design
- Ocean stream turbine analysis & design
- Heat Transfer
- Conjugate heat transfer and cooling
- Heatsink design, analysis & selection
- Development of peltier applications
- Oil & Gas
- Analysis of multiphase flows in risers
- Analysis of pyrolysis reactors
Specialist Skills
- Design engineering
- Wide knowledge of a range of fluid dynamics obtained as an academic
Education
M.Sc. Degree in Fluid Dynamics
Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, Mechanical Engineering Dept.
- Published an article in the SA institute R&D journal.
B.Sc. Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa.
