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Ing. Václav Vinš, Ph.D.

Phone +420 266 053 152, +420 266 053 732 E-mail vins.vaclav@seznam.cz Room M2412 Department D2 - Thermodynamics Position Post-doctoral researcher Research area Two-phase flow of vapor-liquid mixture, thermophysical properties, refrigeration
Curriculum vitae
Education
2010: Ph.D. at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, study program: Mathematical and Physical Engineering, title: Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Investigation of the Two-phase Flow through Small-Diameter Tubes
2005: Ing. at CTU in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Applied Mechanics

Study stays and working activities
2011: Young Scientist IAPWS Project - Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) - Development of thermodynamic models for hydrates in water-carbon dioxide mixture (6 months)
2001 – 2009: cooperation with PH department at CERN laboratory (Switzerland, Geneva) –development of the vapor cooling circuits intended to particle detectors of the TOTEM experiment and the Inner Detector (ID) of the ATLAS experiment
2008 till now: research assistant at the Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, v. v. i.
2006 – 2008: part time job at the Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, v. v. i. – modeling of the vapor-liquid nucleation employing the gradient theory
2005: Technical Student Program at CERN – TS department, CFD studies for LHCb and ALICE detectors using commercial software STAR-CD (10 months)
2003: Summer Student Program at CERN – PH department, testing of the prototypes of heat exchangers and heaters for the SCT and Pixel detectors of the ID of ATLAS experiment (2 months)
2002: study at the Lund Institute of Technology at Lund University (Sweden) organized by Erasmus/Socrates program, concentration on turbulence and heat transfer (5 months)
2001 – 2005: assistant in the research at Department of physics at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at CTU in Prague

Scientific community membership
IAPWS - Working group for Thermophysical Properties of Water and Steam
View author's publications in the ASCR database
Selected publications
V. Vinš, J. Hrubý, V. Vacek: Numerical simulation of gas-contaminated refrigerant two-phase flow through adiabatic capillary tubes, Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 53 (23-24), 5430-5439, 2010.
G. Hallewell, V. Vacek, V. Vinš: Properties of saturated fluorocarbons: Experimental data and modeling using perturbed-chain-SAFT, Fluid Phase Equilibria 292 (1-2), 64-70, 2010.
V. Vacek, V. Vinš: Two-phase flow analyses during throttling processes, International Journal of Thermophysics 30(4), 1179-1196, 2009.
V. Vinš, V. Vacek: Effect of Gas Impurities on the Throttling Process of Fluorocarbon Refrigerants: Estimation of the Henry’s Law Constant, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, 54(9), 2395-2403, 2009.
V. Vinš, V. Vacek: Mass flow rate correlation for two-phase flow of R218 through a capillary tube, Applied Thermal Engineering 29, 2816-2823, 2009.
M. Deile, E. Radermacher, M. Oriunno, G. Ruggiero, V. Vacek, V. Vinš et al.: The TOTEM experiment and the CERN Large Hadron Collider, Journal of Instrumentation 3, S08007, 2008.
M. Oriunno, M. Battistin, E. David, P. Guglielmini, C. Joram, E. Radermacher, G. Ruggiero, J. Wu, V. Vacek, V. Vinš: Design and prototype studies of the TOTEM Roman pot detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, A 581, 499-503, 2007.
V. Vacek, V. Vinš: A study of the flow through capillary tubes tuned for a cooling circuit with saturated fluorocarbon refrigerants, International Journal of Thermophysics 28, 1490-1508, 2007.
D. G. Labetski, J. Hrubý, V. Vinš, M. E. H. Van Dongen: Computation of nucleation rates for n-nonane using gradient theory, Nucleation and atmospheric aerosols, 97-101, 2007.
Projects
2011-2013 GPP101/11/P046Sufrace properties of metastable fluids for technical applications - theoretical and experimental study

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