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Magnús Þór Jónsson - Professor
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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Magnús Þór Jónsson
Íslenska
Professor
Location
VR-2 / V02-240
Phone
525 - 4639
Email
magnusj [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1079-0483
Research portal – Magnús Þór Jónsson
Courses 2024 - 2025
VÉL206M - Computer Aided Design
VÉL205M - Mechatronics
VÉL212F - Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
VÉL406G - Dynamics and vibrations
VÉL609G - Innovation and design
VÉL113F - Design Optimization
VÉL114F - Geothermal Power Plants
VÉL120F - Geothermal Wells
VÉL101G - Engineering Design Processes
Published works
2022
Pyflow Wellbore Simulator
2021
Finite Element Modelling of a Novel Casing Protection for High Temperature Geothermal Wells
Electrical Resistance Study between Well Casings at Reykjanes Geothermal Field
2020
Casing-to-casing resistance study performed at Reykjanes geothermal field in Iceland to estimate fracture connectivity
Geothermics
2018
Geothermal Well Casings Used as Electrodes in a Resistivity Study at Reykjanes Reservoir in Iceland
Increased Reliability of Supercritical EOS1sc Module in iTOUGH2
2017
Conceptual Models for Fracture Characterization at Reykjanes Geothermal Field
Modelling and analysis of a horizontal direct chill casting process
Minerals, Metals and Materials Series
Coupled pump and pipe system analysis for optimum design of district heating system
Minimizing visual effects and optimizing routes and locations for geothermal steam gathering system
Structural Analysis of the Casings in Deep Geothermal Wells
2016
Structural modeling of the casings in the IDDP-1 well
Geothermics
Deep Roots of Geothermal Systems
Optimum topology, route and site selection of a steam system for geothermal power plant
IAENG International Journal of Computer Science
Deep Roots of Geothermal Systems
2015
A New Approcach for Managing Outages at Hydro Power Plants Using dependency Structure Matrix
Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information
Power plant maintenance scheduling using dependency structure matrix and evolutionary optimization
Modelling of geothermal drilling parameters - A case study of well MW-17 in Menengai Kenya
Structural modeling of the casings in high temperature geothermal wells
Geothermics
Modelling and Optimization of Geothermal Drilling Parameters
The Wellbore Simulator FloWell - Model Enhancement and Verification
An Approach to Optimum Route and Site Selection of a Steam Gathering System for Geothermal Power Plants using Multiple Weight Distance Transform
Applied Mechanics and Materials
Geothermal District Heating System Under Variable Loads - Pump Station and Pipe System Design
International Journal of Advancements in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering– IJAMAE
Structural Analysis of Casings in High Temperature Geothermal Wells in Iceland
2014
Geothermal District Heating System Under Variable Loads
Numerical Model for Mist Separators
2013
A Thermoelectric-Based Point of Use Power Generator for Steam Pipes; Geo-Heat Center Quarterly Bulletin
Geo-Heat Center Quarterly Bulletin
Using Probabilistic Analysis with Finite Element Modeling of High Temperature Geothermal Well Casings
Specified maintenance of steam turbines in geothermal power plants
Collapse analysis of the casing in high temperature geothermal wells
The wellbore simulator flowell
A coupled wellbore-reservoir simulator utilizing measured wellhead conditions
2012
Development of a Coupled Geothermal Reservoir-Wellbore Simulator Using Measured Wellhead Parameters and Inverse Analysis
Thermal and Structural Analysis of the Casing in a High Temperature Geothermal Well During Discharge
COUPLING WELLBORE SIMULATOR WITH RESERVOIR; PROCEEDINGS
Improved power production efficiency of hydrothermal reservoirs using downhole pumps
Coupling wellbore simulator with reservoir simulator
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
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 in superchilled fish loins packaged in expanded polystyrene and stored at dynamic temperature conditions
International Journal of Refrigeration
Thermoelectric-based power generator for powering microcontroller based security camera
2011
SIMULATION OF TWO-PHASE FLOW IN GEOTHERMAL PIPES USING SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS
Geothermal heat in agriculture
A thermoelectric-based point of use power generator for steam pipes
Load History and Buckling of the Production Casing in a High Temperature Geothermal Well
Numerical Modelling of Temperature Fluctuations in Superchilled Fish Loins Packaged in Expanded Polystyrene and Stored at Dynamic Temperature Conditions
A Methodology for Optimal Geothermal Pipeline Route Selection With Regards to Visual Effects Using Distance Transform Algorithms
Simulation of Two-Phase Flow in Geothermal Pipes
LOAD HISTORY AND BUCKLING OF THE PRODUCTION CASING IN AbHIGH TEMPERATURE GEOTHERMAL WELL
Methodology for pipeline route selection using the NSGA II and distance transform algorithms
2010
An application of the DSM method on software development at CCP
2009
AE Entropy for the Condition Monitoring of CFRP Subjected to Cyclic Fatigue
Journal of Acoustic Emission
Acoustic Emission Feature for Early Failure Warning of CFRP Composites Subjected to Cyclic Fatigue
Journal of Acoustic Emission
2008
Production Capacity Assessment
Monitoring The Evolution of Individual AE Sources In Cyclically Loaded FRP Composites
Journal of Acoustic Emission
Acoustic emission based fatigue failure criterion for CFRP
International Journal of Fatigue
2007
Comparative study of road accidents in iceland and side impact compatibility
SAE Technical Papers
Thermal effects on carbon based electrodes close to a high current electric arc
On Using AE Hit Patterns for Monitoring Cyclically Loaded CFRP
Monitoring the Evolution og Individual AE Sources in Cyclically Loaded FRP Composites
Electrode erosion in submerged arc furnaces
On Using AE Hit Patterns for Monitoring Cyclically Loaded CFRP
Journal of Acoustic Emission
2006
Orkulosun og varmaflutningur í ljósbogaofni
Electrode erosion due to high-current electric arcs in silicon and ferrosilicon furnaces
Steel Research International
2005
Pipe route design using variable topography distance transforms
Fault Detection of CRFP During Initial Loading
Predicting Fatigue Strength of CFRP During Fatigue Testing - Signal and Hardware Selection
Extracting information from conventional AE features for onset damage detection in carbon fiber composites
Multidisciplinary Optimization - Pump station and Pipe System Design
2004
Computer-based design tool for geothermal piping systems
NDT methods for evaluating carbon fiber composites
2003
Model selection in one class nu-SVMs using RBF kernels
Model selection in one-class v-SVMs using RBF kernels
2002
Modal Analysis of Free Vibrating Ship Structures
Seismic design of geothermal pipeline supports
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP
Uppröðun pípuundirstaðna með erfðaalgrími
Verktækni - tímarit VFÍ
Comparative Study of Vibration and Underwater Vessel Noise
2001
Áhrif jarðskjálfta á hönnun pípukerfa
Verktækni - tímarit VFÍ
Comparative study of seismic analyses for piping systems
2000
Evolution and design of distributed learning rules
Constrained Nonlinear Integer Programming
International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems
1999
Evolution of gene coordination networks
Genetic production systems for intelligent problem solving
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
1998
Cumulant based modal parameter extraction of structures
Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Transactions of the ASME
1997
Weight optimization of transmission towers
1996
Optimizing the sailing route for fixed groundfish survey stations
Dynamic dual bin packing using fuzzy objectives
The geometrical effect on the thermal stresses of a self-baked carbon electrode
Scandinavian Journal of Metallurgy
1995
THE EFFECT OF CHARGING THROUGH A CENTRAL HOLE IN A SÖDERBERG ELECTRODE
1994
Verifying finite element assumptions using structural system identification
1993
Structural analysis of a transform fault-rift zone junction in North Iceland
Tectonophysics
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