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Halldór Pálsson - Professor
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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Halldór Pálsson
Íslenska
Professor
Location
VR-2 / V02-244
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525 - 4184
Email
halldorp [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science
Website
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/halldor-palsson2/
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4112-6729
Research portal – Halldór Pálsson
Courses 2024 - 2025
VÉL405G - Energy Processes
VÉL601G - Heat Transfer
VÉL215F - Computational Fluid Dynamics
VÉL218F - Direct Geothermal Utilization
VÉL561L - Final project
VÉL561L - Final project
VÉL114F - Geothermal Power Plants
VÉL303G - Thermodynamics and chemical reactions
VÉL064G - Internship for mechanical engineering
VÉL561L - Final project
Published works
2023
Fast and robust femur segmentation from computed tomography images for patient-specific hip fracture risk screening
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization
2020
Life cycle assessment of a geothermal combined heat and power plant based on high temperature utilization
Geothermics
High-Temperature Geothermal Utilization in the Context of European Energy Policy—Implications and Limitations
Energies
2019
Biofidelic finite element models for accurately classifying hip fracture in a retrospective clinical study of elderly women from the AGES Reykjavik cohort
Bone
2018
Mesh Twisting Technique for Swirl Induced Laminar Flow Used to Determine a Desired Blade Shape
Applied Sciences
On the Failure Initiation in the Proximal Human Femur Under Simulated Sideways Fall
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Material mapping strategy to improve the predicted response of the proximal femur to a sideways fall impact
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
2017
Modelling and analysis of a horizontal direct chill casting process
Minerals, Metals and Materials Series
Machine learning for creation of generalized lumped parameter tank models of low temperature geothermal reservoir systems
Geothermics
Fouling Detection in a Parallel Flow Heat Exchanger via a Roesser Model Identification Procedure
IFAC-PapersOnLine
2016
Morphology based anisotropic finite element models of the proximal femur validated with experimental data
Medical Engineering and Physics
Heat exchanger identification by using iterative fuzzy observers
Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung
Online fouling detection of domestic hot water heat exchangers
Heat Transfer Engineering
Structural modeling of the casings in the IDDP-1 well: Load history analysis
Geothermics
Fundamental mode of freely decaying laminar swirling flows
Applied Mathematical Modelling
Complexity analysis of generalized tank models
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council
The influence of the modulus-density relationship and the material mapping method on the simulated mechanical response of the proximal femur in side-ways fall loading configuration
Medical Engineering and Physics
Interactive graph-cut segmentation for fast creation of finite element models from clinical ct data for hip fracture prediction
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
2015
Design of a device to induce swirling flow in pipes: A rational approach
Comptes Rendus - Mecanique
Mixed integer optimization model for utilizing a geothermal reservoir
Geothermics
Calculation of relative permeabilities of water and steam from laboratory measurements
Geothermics
Life cycle inventory of a flash geothermal combined heat and power plant located in Iceland
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Structural modeling of the casings in high temperature geothermal wells
Geothermics
Calculation of relative permeabilities from field data and comparison to laboratory measurements
Geothermics
2014
Utilization of the chloride bearing, superheated steam from IDDP-1
Geothermics
2013
Experimental and CFD simulation of heat efficiency improvement ingeothermal spas
Energy
Inducing swirling flow in heat exchanger pipes for reduced fouling rate
Heat Transfer Engineering
2012
Temperature fluctuations and quality deterioration of chilled cod (Gadus morhua) fillets packaged in different boxes stored on pallets under dynamic temperature conditions
International Journal of Refrigeration
Numerical modelling of temperature fluctuations of chilled and superchilled cod fillets packaged in expanded polystyrene boxes stored on pallets under dynamic temperature conditions
Journal of Food Engineering
Waste-heat for pre-heating internal combustion engines
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
Numerical modelling of temperature fluctuations in superchilled fish loins packaged in expanded polystyrene and stored at dynamic temperature conditions
International Journal of Refrigeration
2011
Continuous-time linear parameter-varying identification of a cross flow heat exchanger: A local approach
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Methodology for pipeline route selection using the NSGA II and distance transform algorithms
Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
Experimental and numerical modelling comparison of thermal performance of expanded polystyrene and corrugated plastic packaging for fresh fish
International Journal of Refrigeration
Numerical heat transfer modelling for improving thermal protection of fish packaging
6th International CIGR Technical Symposium - Towards a Sustainable Food Chain: Food Process, Bioprocessing and Food Quality Management
2010
Analysis of heat transfer in heat exchangers by using the NTU method and empirical relations
12th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling
LCA of combined heat and power production at hellisheidi geothermal power plant with focus on primary energy efficiency
12th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling
Waste heat utilization from a submerged arc furnace producing ferrosilicon
Proceedings of the 12th International Ferroalloys Congress: Sustainable Future
Heat recovery from the exhaust gas of aluminum reduction cells
TMS Light Metals
Assessing relative permeabilities of two phase flows of water and steam in geothermal reservoirs: State of the art relations
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council
Detection of fouling in a cross-flow heat exchanger using a neural network based technique
International Journal of Thermal Sciences
2009
Risk of failure during gait for direct skeletal attachment of a femoral prosthesis: A finite element study
Medical Engineering and Physics
Influence of parameter variations on the braking torque of a magnetorheological prosthetic knee
Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures
Thermal performance of corrugated plastic boxes and expanded polystyrene boxes
2008
A modified method for assigning material properties to FE models of bones
Medical Engineering and Physics
2007
Electrode erosion in submerged arc furnaces
Innovations In The Ferro Alloy Industry - Proceedings of the XI International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry, Infacon XI
Thermal effects on carbon based electrodes close to a high current electric arc
Innovations In The Ferro Alloy Industry - Proceedings of the XI International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry, Infacon XI
2006
Design of a magnetorheological prosthetic knee
Proceedings of NordDesign 2006 Conference
Electrode erosion due to high-current electric arcs in silicon and ferrosilicon furnaces
Steel Research International
2002
Aggregated dynamic simulation model of district heating networks
Energy Conversion and Management
1998
Probabilistic production simulation including combined heat and power plants
Electric Power Systems Research
Keywords for Specialisation:
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Heat transfer
Fluid mechanics
Geothermal
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