Hrvoje Kozmar
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
University of Zagreb
Ivana Lučića 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
E-mail:    hkozmar@fsb.hr
Office:    605
Phone:   +385 1 6168 162
CV:         CV_HKozmar_20231215

DEGREES

    PhD Physics (Dr. rer. nat.), Technical University of Berlin, 2023    
    PhD Mechanical Engineering (Dr. sc.), University of Zagreb (in conjunction with the Technical University of Munich), 2005
    MSc Mechanical Engineering, University of Zagreb (in conjunction with the Technical University of Munich), 2000
    BSc Mechanical Engineering, University of Zagreb, 1994

 

RESEARCH INTEREST

    Environmental and Structural Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Renewable Energy and Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Professor, 12/2018-
• Associate Professor, 07/2013 - 12/2018
• Assistant Professor, 07/2008 - 07/2013
• Postdoc, 07/2005 - 07/2008
• PhD student, 04/2000 - 07/2005
• MSc student, 03/1996 - 04/2000 

    Department of Fluid Mechanics
    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
    University of Zagreb, Croatia
          Including research stays abroad:

1. Technical University of Munich (30 months)
2. University of Notre Dame (13 months)
3. Technical University of Berlin (6 months)
4. University of Florence (4 months)
5. German Aerospace Center (2 months)

• Mechanical Engineer, 12/1994 - 03/1996

    Soltech Zagreb Inc.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Grand Medal (highest award for outstanding academic achievement), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, 2023
• German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship at the Technical University of Berlin, 2023
• World's top 2% scientist, Stanford University, 2020, 2022
• Member of the Croatian Academy of Engineering, 2021
• Research Award of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2020
• Research Award of the Republic of Croatia, 2019
• Special recognition for extraordinary personal contributions to the activities and development of the Croatian DAAD Club, 2018
• German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship at the Technical University of Berlin, 2012
• Special recognition by the German Ambassador to Croatia for extraordinary personal merits in developing and strengthening German-Croatian relations, 2012
• Senior Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame, 2007
• Croatian Department of Science and Technology Fellowship, 2006
• German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship at the German Aerospace Center Göttingen, 2006
• Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Fellowship, 2005
• Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich, 2002
• German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich, 1999
• Croatian Department of Science and Technology Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich, 1998
• Shipyard Brodosplit scholarship for undergraduate studies at the University of Zagreb, 1989
  

MEMBERSHIP

• University of Zagreb University Council (Board of Trustees)
• Croatian Academy of Engineering
• International scientific advisory board for the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Prague
• Guest editor of a special issue of Wind and Structures on downslope windstorms (Vol. 24, Issue 6, 2017)
• Editorial board member for international journals:
  a) Wind and Structures,
  b) Transactions of Famena (Editor-in-Chief),
  c) Transactions of the VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, Civil Engineering Series,
  d) Frontiers in Built Environment: Wind Engineering and Science,
  e) Wind.
• Former President of the Croatian DAAD Club (currently supervisory board member)
• Chief Editor of the Fulbright Foundation for Engineering Science in Croatia
• Member of the NATO Science and Technology Organization
• Former member of the University-of-Zagreb council for student support
• Supervisory board member – Croatian Society of Mechanics
• Co-chair of the 7ICCSM international conference in 05/2012
• Reviewer for the Croatian government, DAAD, US-Israeli Science Foundation, etc., research grant proposals

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Golem P, Večenaj Ž, Kozmar H, Grisogono B (2022) The Effect of Orography on Bora Wind Turbulence, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 187, 193-212.
• Buljac A, Kozmar H, Yang W, Kareem A (2022) Concurrent wind, wave and current loads on a monopile-supported offshore wind turbine, Engineering Structures 255, 113950, 1-17.
• Kozmar H, Hadžić N, Ćatipović I, Rudan S (2022) Wind load assessment in marine and offshore engineering standards, Ocean Engineering 252, 110872, 1-14.
• Cindori M, Čajić P, Džijan I, Juretić F, Kozmar H (2022) A comparison of major steady RANS approaches to engineering ABL simulations, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 221, 104867, 1-28.
• Kozmar H (2021) Flow, turbulence and surface pressure on a wall-mounted cube in turbulent boundary layers, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 210, 104503, 1-15.
• Škvorc P, Kozmar H (2021) Wind energy harnessing on tall buildings in urban environments, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 152, 111662, 1-18.
• Bosnar D, Kozmar H, Pospíšil S, Macháček M (2021) Thrust force and bending moment acting on a horizontal axis wind turbine with a high tip speed ratio at high yaw angles, Wind and Structures 32(5), 471-485.
• Golubić D, Meile G, Brenn G, Kozmar H (2020) Wind-tunnel analysis of natural ventilation in a generic building in sheltered and unsheltered conditions: Impact of Reynolds number and wind direction, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 207, 104388, 1-17.
• Buljac A, Kozmar H, Pospišil S, Macháček M, Kuznetsov S (2020) Effects of wind-barrier layout and wind turbulence on aerodynamic stability of cable-supported bridges, Journal of Bridge Engineering 25(12), 04020102-1 - 04020102-18.
• Kozmar H (2020) Surface pressure on a cubic building exerted by conical vortices, Journal of Fluids and Structures 92, 1-18.
• Kozmar H, Laschka B (2019) Wind-tunnel modeling of wind loads on structures using truncated vortex generators, Journal of Fluids and Structures 87, 334-353.
• Marušić A, Kozmar H, Pospišil S, Kuznetsov S (2017) Wake characteristics of ice-accreted cylindrical bars in a cross-flow at subcritical Reynolds numbers, Journal of Aerospace Engineering 31(2), 06017007-1-06017007-7.
• Pavlović B, Pavičević M, Buljac A, Džijan I, Kozmar H (2017) Design curves for gas pressure drop in excess flow safety valve, Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice 8(4), 06017005-1-06017005-5.
• Kozmar H, Allori D, Bartoli G, Borri C (2016) Complex terrain effects on wake characteristics of a parked wind turbine, Engineering Structures 110, 363-374.
• Lepri P, Večenaj Ž, Kozmar H, Grisogono B (2015) Near-ground turbulence of the Bora wind in summertime, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 147, 345-357.
• Križan J, Gašparac G, Kozmar H, Antonić O, Grisogono B (2015) Designing laboratory wind simulations using artificial neural networks, Theoretical and Applied Climatology 120(3-4), 723-736.
• Kozmar H, Butler K, Kareem A (2012) Transient cross-wind aerodynamic loads on a generic vehicle due to bora gusts, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 111, 73-84.
• Kozmar H, Procino L, Borsani A, Bartoli G (2012) Sheltering efficiency of wind barriers on bridges, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 107-108, 274-284.
• Kozmar H (2012) Physical modeling of complex airflows developing above rural terrains, Environmental Fluid Mechanics 12(3), 209-225.
• Kozmar H (2010) Scale effects in wind tunnel modeling of an urban atmospheric boundary layer. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 100(1-2), 153-162.

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