Our employees:

Our technical staff has been working within the field of turbulent flow and combustion in professor Magnussen’s group at SINTEF for 3-20 years before joining ComputIT. Half the technical staff has a PhD, the rest MSc, in Mechanical Engineering. The PhD theses are on various topics in numerical modeling of turbulent combustion, soot formation and oxidation, and also on user interface design for CFD codes.

Anette Mjøen, Secretary Anette Mjøen is secretary and has been working in ComputIT since 2001. She is responsible for the practical operation of the office.
Bjørn Erling Vembe, PhD, Chief Engineer Bjørn E. Vembe is chief engineer at ComputIT and head of the Stavanger office. He has been working within the field of turbulent flow and combustion in professor Magnussen’s group at SINTEF for 13 years before joining ComputIT in 1999.
Bjørn F. Magnussen, PhD, Professor, Chairman of the board Bjørn F. Magnussen is chairman of the board of ComputIT and also engaged in the daily operation of the company as director of strategy. He is professor emeritus in Applied Thermodynamics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.
Brynjar Lakså, MSc, Chief Engineer Brynjar Lakså is chief engineer at ComputIT. He has been working within the field of turbulent flow and combustion in professor Magnussen’s group at SINTEF for 13 years before joining ComputIT in 1999.
Bård Grimsmo, PhD, Chief Engineer Bård Grimsmo is chief engineer at ComputIT. He has been working within the field of turbulent flow and combustion in professor Magnussen’s group at SINTEF for about 20 years before joining ComputIT in 1999.
Kjell Erik Rian, PhD, Senior Engineer Kjell Erik Rian is senior engineer at ComputIT. He has been working at NTNU and SINTEF for about 15 years with turbulent flow and combustion, especially modeling of explosions and compressible flows, and was Associate Professor at NTNU before joining ComputIT in 2008.
Lars Lilleeng, MSc, Project Engineer Lars Lilleeng is project engineer at ComputIT since 2001. He has been working within the field of turbulent flow and combustion in professor Magnussen’s group at SINTEF before joining ComputIT.
Leif Lien, BSc, BBA, Accountant He is working part time in ComputIT since 2003 with responsibility for economy systems and the account management.
Nils Inge Lilleheie, MSc, Chief Engineer Nils I. Lilleheie is chief engineer at ComputIT. He has been working within the field of turbulent flow and combustion in professor Magnussen’s group at SINTEF for 17 years before joining ComputIT in 1999.
Robert Olsen, PhD, Senior Engineer Robert Olsen is senior engineer at ComputIT. He has been working within the field of CFD modeling, especially of multiphase flows, at SINTEF Energy Research for about 10 years before joining ComputIT in 2008.
Rune Natten Kleiveland, PhD, Senior Engineer Rune N. Kleiveland is senior engineer at ComputIT. He has been working within the field of turbulent flow and combustion in Professor Magnussen’s group at SINTEF for about 8 years before joining ComputIT in 2004.
Trond Evanger, MSc, Managing Director Trond Evanger is Managing Director of ComputIT. In addition to be working within the field of turbulent flow and combustion in professor Magnussen’s group at SINTEF for 15 years, he has had various manager positions in engineering companies  before he together with professor Magnussen and the engineering company ICG (now COWI) established ComputIT in 1999.

 

ComputIT`s employees have up to 30 years of experience in development and application of CFD tools and are specialists in several areas:

• mathematical modelling of turbulent flows and combustion
• modeling of turbulent structure – chemical kinetic interaction
• detailed chemical chemistry, soot formation, thermal NOx formation, reduced chemistry of NOx formation and destruction
• ignition/extinction modeling
• modeling of combustion instabilities
• combustion modelling of applications for burners, furnaces and engines
• low NOx technology, optimization of low emission burners
• spray modeling in relation to water spray interaction with combustion processes
• modeling of burning sprays
• modeling of LNG combustion
• development and coding of graphical user interfaces in general and in particular the KFX interfaces
• operational aspect of CFD tools
• CAD and GIS systems
• analyses and design of pipeline commissioning operations like dewatering and drying, pipeline pigging, gas transport in large sub sea pipe networks
• multiphase flows in pipelines and vessels and multiphase separation processes
• modeling of turbulent flow, compressible flow and two-phase flow
• inductrial application of CFD for design and solution of practical problems