Banaszek Jerzy

Functions within the Institute and WUT:

• Deputy Director of the Institute of Heat Engineering, 1996-2005;
• Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Power &Aeronautical Engineering, 2005-2008;
• Dean of the Faculty of Power &Aeronautical Engineering, 2008-2016;
• WUT Senate member since 2008;
• Head of the Senate Committee for Education since 2012;
• Member of the Senate Committee for Science since 2016;
• WUT Rector’s Proxy for Satellite & Space Technology since 2016;
• Member of the Advisory Council of WUT Applied Research Institute since 2008;
• Member of the Advisory Council of WUT Center for Advanced Studies since 2016.

Membership of professional bodies

• Member of the Committee on Thermodynamics and Combustion, Polish Academy of Sciences since 1993;
• Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Power Technology. 

Key research areas:

• Multi-scale mathematical modelling and computer simulation of complex coupled fluid flow, heat and mass transfer problems and their applications in engineering, including: theory and development of new numerical techniques and efficient computational algorithms, analysis of high temperature systems, renewable and storage energy systems, porous media, metal alloys phase transition in both microgravity and terrestrial conditions, validation procedures of numerical models.

 Teaching courses:

• Advanced Thermodynamics, sem. III, BE course, – lectures & classes (in Polish);
• Energy Transport, sem. I, M.Sc.  course , lectures & classes (in English);
• Numerical Methods in Heat Transfer, sem. I, M.Sc.  course , lectures (in English);
• Numerical Methods in Heat Transfer, sem. I, M.Sc.  course , lectures (in Polish);
• Basic Theory of Thermodynamics and Heat Machines, postgraduate courses, lecture.

 Key publications:  

• Banaszek J., A Conservative Finite Element Method for Heat Conduction Problems. Int. J. Num. Meth.Eng., vol.20, (1984), pp. 2033-2050;
• Banaszek J., Comparison of Control-Volume and Galerkin Based FEM for Diffusion Type Problems. Numerical Heat Transfer Part B - Fundamentals, vol.16, (1990),no.1.
• Banaszek J., Domański R., Rebow M. and El-Sagier F., Experimental Study of Solid-Liquid Phase Change in a Spiral Thermal Energy Storage Unit, Applied Thermal Engineering, vol.19, 1999, pp.1253-1277.
• Banaszek J., Jaluria Y., Kowalewski T.A., and Rebow M.; Semi-implicit FEM Analysis of Natural Convection in Freezing Water. Num. Heat Transfer Part A, vol.36, (1999), pp.449-472.
• Banaszek J., Domański R., Rebow, M. and El-Sagier F., Numerical Analysis of the Paraffin Wax-Air Spiral Thermal Energy Storage Unit, Applied Thermal Engineering, vol.20, (2000), pp.323-354.
• Furmański P. and Banaszek J., Finite Element Analysis of Concurrent Radiation and Conduction in Participating Media, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, vol.84, (2004), No.4, pp. 563-573.
• Banaszek J. and Browne D.J., Modelling Columnar Dendritic Growth into an Under-Cooled Metallic Melt in the Presence of Convection, Materials Transactions, vol.46, (2005), no.06, pp.1378-1387.
• Banaszek J., Mc Fadden S., Browne D.J., Sturz L. and Zimmermann G., Natural convection and CET prediction in a front tracking model of alloy solidification, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2007, vol. 38A, pp.1476-1484.
• Banaszek J. and Seredynski M., The accuracy of a solid packing fraction model in recognizing zones of different dendritic structures, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 55, 2012, pp. 4334–4339.
• Seredyński M., Łapka P., Banaszek J., Furmański P., Front tracking method in modeling transport phenomena accompanying liquid–solid phase transition in binary alloys and semitransparent media, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 90, 2015,
   pp. 790-799.

Participation in research projects (examples):

• „Numerical analysis of selected problems for convective and conductive heat transfer in bodies of complex geometry and material properties”, Polish Government’s Research Program MR I-10, the main researcher and project manager,1981-1985;
• „Special approximation techniques im Finite Element Method for fluid flow and heat transfer problems”, Polish Government’s  Research Program CPBP 02.18, the main researcher and project manager, 1986-1990;
• „Experimental and numerical study of natural convection with phase change in binary media”, two grants of the Polish State Committee for Research, the main researcher and project manager, 1996-1998 and 1999-2001;
• „Modelling of complex heat transfer in melting an solidification of one-component and binary media”, the grant of the Polish State Committee for Research, the main researcher and project manager, 2001-2003;
• “Columnar to Equiaxed Transition in Solidification”, University College Dublin, Ireland, the grant of the European Space Agency and Irish Research Committee, one of the main contractors, 2001-003 i 2004-2005;
• „Study of thermal radiation and natural convection influence on heat transfer in materials of high porosity with applications to energy conversion systems and thermal insulations, the grant of the Polish State Committee for Research, one of the main researchers, 2003-2005;
• „Micro-macroscopic model of binary solution solidification”, the grant of the Polish State Committee for Research, the main researcher and project manager, 2006-2008;
• „Numerical simulator of  micro i macro-structures developing in binary metal alloys crystallization”, the grant of the Polish State Committee for Research, the main researcher and project manager , 2011-2014.

Awards:

• III-rd Degree Individual Award of the Minister of Science, Higher Education and Technology for achievements in the field of scientific research, 1981;
• Award of the IV Department of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences for achievements in thermodynamics, 1988;

• Team award of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for co-authorship of the monograph: „Modeling of Transport Phenomena in Cooled and Solidifying Single Component and Binary Media”, 2006;
• 3 Individual Awards of the Rector of Warsaw University of Technology for scientific achievements in 1985, 1989, 1993;
• 5 Team Awards of the Rector of Warsaw University of Technology for scientific achievements (including four I-degree and one II-degree): 1987, 2000-2001, 2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2008-2009;
• 10 Individual Awards of the Rector of Warsaw University of Technology for organizational achievements in the academic years: 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019.
• Individual First-degree Award of the Rector of Warsaw University of Technology for overall achievements, 2019.
• Golden Cross of Merit from the President of Poland, 2004;
• the Medal of the Commission of National Education, 2013;.
• Knight's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Polish from the President of Poland, 2017.

Achievements in Research Staff Education:

• 4 promoted doctors (3 doctorates with distinction);
• reviewer of 7 professors' applications (including one abroad), 5 habilitation (D.Sc.) theses and 15 doctoral dissertations (including one abroad);
• multiple reviewer of international and domestic conference papers;
• multiple reviewer for world-wide and domestic scientific journals, such as Numerical Heat Transfer, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Communications in Applied Numerical Methods, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Heat &Mass Transfer Journal, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Transport in Porous Media, Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, Archives of Thermodynamics, Archives of Mechanics and others;
• expert and reviewer in the Prelude and Sonata competitions of the National Science Centre in 2013-2015.

Other:

• Fulbright Senior Fellowship, Rutgers University New Jersey, 1998;
• Monograph: Banaszek J., Furmanski P. and Rebow M., Modelling of Transport Phenomena in Cooled and Solidifying Single Component and Binary Media, ISBN 83-7207-585-9, 2005, pp.1-276;
• Chapter in Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses, ed. Richard B. Hetnarski, Springer, (ISBN 978-94-007-2738), 2014: Banaszek J., Seredyński M., „Phase Change Heat Transfer Problems”.