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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
2017
Minimizing visual effects and optimizing routes and locations for geothermal steam gathering system
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP
Coupled pump and pipe system analysis for optimum design of district heating system
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP
Modelling and analysis of a horizontal direct chill casting process
Minerals, Metals and Materials Series
2016
Structural modeling of the casings in the IDDP-1 well: Load history analysis
Geothermics
Optimum topology, route and site selection of a steam system for geothermal power plant
IAENG International Journal of Computer Science
2015
Modelling of geothermal drilling parameters - A case study of well MW-17 in Menengai Kenya
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council
Power plant maintenance scheduling using dependency structure matrix and evolutionary optimization
Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science
Structural modeling of the casings in high temperature geothermal wells
Geothermics
2013
Specified maintenance of steam turbines in geothermal power plants
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Power Division (Publication) POWER
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
Thermoelectric-based power generator for powering microcontroller based security camera
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
Methodology for pipeline route selection using the NSGA II and distance transform algorithms
Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
A thermoelectric-based point of use power generator for steam pipes
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council
Geothermal heat in agriculture: Preliminary results of an energy intensive system in Iceland
Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council
2008
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
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
Electrode erosion due to high-current electric arcs in silicon and ferrosilicon furnaces
Steel Research International
2005
Extracting information from conventional AE features for onset damage detection in carbon fiber composites
Essential Technologies for Successful Prognostics - Proceedings of the 59th Meeting of the Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology
Pipe route design using variable topography distance transforms
Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference - DETC2005
2002
Seismic design of geothermal pipeline supports
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP
2001
Comparative study of seismic analyses for piping systems
Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
2000
Evolution and design of distributed learning rules
Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Symposium on Combinations of Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks
1999
Evolution of gene coordination networks
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
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
1996
The geometrical effect on the thermal stresses of a self-baked carbon electrode
Scandinavian Journal of Metallurgy
Dynamic dual bin packing using fuzzy objectives
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation
1994
Verifying finite element assumptions using structural system identification
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications
1993
Structural analysis of a transform fault-rift zone junction in North Iceland
Tectonophysics
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