
Ao. Univ. Prof. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Heimo WALTER
Getreidemarkt 9/302 , A-1060 Vienna
Room: BA 04A15
Tel.: +43-1-58801-302318
Fax: +43-1-58801-302399
heimo.walter@tuwien.ac.at
Consultation hours
Monday - Thursday 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Research & Working areas
- Employee of the key activitie of the institute for the numerical simulation of selected thermodynamic problems
- Employee of the research project flow distribution in tube networks
- Employee of the research project Numerical calculation of the water circulation in steam generators under dynamic operation conditions
- Head of the research project stability of natural circulation systems.
- Head of the research project sensible and latent heat storage system
Membership in scientific societies
Editorship
- Since August 2015 Editorial board memeber of the journal: Open Physics Journal
- June 2007 - May 2010 Editorial board member of the journal: Open Mechanical Engineering Journal
- Since June 2007 - May 2010 Editorial board member of the journal: Open Mechanical Engineering Reviews
- Since June 2007 - May 2010 Editorial board member of the journal: Open Mechanical Engineering Letters
Invited lectures at scientific conferences
12th International Conference on Energy, and Development, Environment and Biomedicine, Corfu Island, Greece; 25.08.2018 - 27.08.2018
2nd Swiss Symposium Thermal Energy Storage, Luzern, Swiss, Januar 16, 2015
2nd International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Heat and Mass Transfer 2010, Corfu Island, Greece, July 14 - 16, 2011
6th IASME / WSEAS International Conference on Heat Transfer, Thermal Engineering and Environment, Rhodos, Griechenland, August 20 - 22, 2008
Summer academy
Vienna Green Summer Academy. Vienna, Austria, 2.-20. Juli 2012
Smart buildings - planning for the future. Vienna, Austria, 12.-23. Juli 2010
Vienna Green Summer Academy. Vienna, Austria, 7.-25. Juli 2014
Courses
The courses can be retrieved by the following link:
Actual projects
- Static and dynamic stability of natural circulation steam generators
- Pressure drop and fluid flow distribution in a PEM fuel cell
- Integration of a dynamic module for numerical simulation of the evaporator of a natural circulation steam generator into the program KED
- Further development at the computer code DBS which is used for the dynamic simulation of steam generators
Finished projects
- Investigations to the static and dynamic stability of an ultracritical steam generator
- Temperature distribution in the membrane wall of an platen-type superheater
- Stability studies at different natural circulation steam generator designs
- Investigations to the warm start-up behaviour of natural circulation steam generators
- Calculation of the water distribution in a cooling stack
- Environmentally usage of power (Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office (ASO) funded project with project number:4-23-2008 (Project and finance coordinator))
- Temperature distribution in membrane walls
- Condensation of exhaust flue gas from a biomass boiler with a integrated fine dust separation (FFG-Project 815699 (Project and finance coordinator))
- Peripheral conversion of biomass in Substitute Natural Gas (FFG-Project 821863)
- Study to the heat transfer and pressure drop in internally ribbed tubes
- Investigations to the static and dynamic stability of an once through steam generators
- SYMBIOSE - Cross-system for a optimiced decentralised hybrid storage (FFG-Project 834635)
- BimeRi - Production technology for a bimetal tube with longitudinal fins for the use in a latent heat storage system (FFG-Project 843934 (Project and finance coordinator))
- InnoGasClean - Innovative gas cleaning method at biomass gasification (FFG-Projekt 838730)
- SeLaTES sensible and latent energy storage systems as part of the K1-project "GSG-GreenStorageGrid" (FFG-Projekt 836636)
- PRIZE: Fluidized bed heat storage4 device with micro encapsulated phase change material (Project- und Finanzcoordinator)
- Advanced Regenerator: Particle based high temperature heat storage without rotating components with counter-current flow characteristic (Project- und Finanz coordinator) (FFG-Projekt 1396069)
- High temperature heat storage for the thermal center Dürnrohr (Project- and finance coordinator) (FFG-Projekt 865112)