Between 2008 and 2022 I worked as a researcher at SINTEF Energy Research. I did my PhD between 2010 and 2013 at NTNU. This is a list of publications from my career as a researcher. Most of the publications are also listed on my ORCID, on ResearchGate, and at my Google scholar account.

Journal papers

E. A. C. Panduro, F. Finotti, G. Largiller, K. Y. Lervåg, A review of the use of nanofluids as heat-transfer fluids for use in parabolic-trough collectors, Applied Thermal Engineering, Volume 211, 2022. Journal version.

O. A. Hjelkrem, K. Y. Lervåg, S. B., C. Lu, C.-J. Södersten, A battery electric bus energy consumption model for strategic purposes, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 94, 2021. Journal version.

O. H. H. Meyer, K. Y. Lervåg, Å. Ervik, A multiscale porous–resolved methodology for efficient simulation of heat and fluid transport in complex geometries, with application to electric power transformers, Applied Thermal Engineering, Volume 183, Part 1, 2021. Journal version. arXiv.

K. Y. Lervåg, H. L. Skarsvåg, E. Aursand, J. A. Ouassou, M. Hammer, G. Reigstad, Å. Ervik, E. H. Fyhn, M. Aa. Gjennestad, P. Aursand, Ø. Wilhelmsen, A combined fluid-dynamic and thermodynamic model to predict the onset of rapid phase transitions in LNG spills, Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Volume 69, 2021. Journal version. arXiv.

E. H. Fyhn, K. Y. Lervåg, Å. Ervik, Ø. Wilhelmsen, A consistent reduction of the two-layer shallow-water equations to an accurate one-layer spreading model, Physics of Fluids 31, 122103 (2019). Journal version. arXiv.

M. Aa. Gjennestad, A. Gruber, K. Y. Lervåg, Ø. Johansen, Å. Ervik, M. Hammer, S. T. Munkejord, Computation of three-dimensional three-phase flow of carbon dioxide using a high-order WENO scheme, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 348, 2017. Journal version. arXiv.

E. Aursand, M. Aa. Gjennestad, K. Y. Lervåg, H. Lund, Potential of enhancing a natural convection loop with a thermomagnetically pumped ferrofluid, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Volume 417, 2016. Journal version. arXiv.

E. Aursanda, M. Aa. Gjennestad, K. Y. Lervåg, H. Lund, A multi-phase ferrofluid flow model with equation of state for thermomagnetic pumping and heat transfer, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Volume 402, 2016. Journal version. arXiv.

K. Y. Lervåg and J. Lowengrub, Analysis of the diffuse-domain method for solving PDEs in complex geometries, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 13, Issue 6 (2015). Journal version. arXiv.

Å. Ervik, K. Y. Lervåg, and S. T. Munkejord, A robust method for calculating interface curvature and normal vectors using an extracted local level set, Journal of Computational Physics, 257, Part A (2014). Journal version. arXiv.

K. Y. Lervåg, B. Müller, and S. T. Munkejord, Calculation of the interface curvature and normal vector with the level-set method, Computers and Fluids, 84 (2013). Journal version.

Conference papers

S. W. Løvseth, I. Snustad, A. L. Brunsvold, G. Skaugen, P. E. Wahl, K. Y. Lervåg, From droplets to process: Multilevel research approach to reduce emissions from LNG processes, in 3rd Trondheim Gas Technology Conference. Energy Procedia, Volume 63, 2014. Conference version.

M. Hammer, P. E. Wahl, R. Anantharamana, D. Berstad, K. Y. Lervåg, CO2 Capture from Off-shore Gas Turbines Using Supersonic Gas Separation, in 12th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies. Energy Procedia, Volume 63, 2014. Conference version.

K. Y. Lervåg and Å. Ervik, Curvature calculations for the level-set method, in ENUMATH 2011 proceedings volume, Conference version. ResearchGate.

K. Y. Lervåg, Calculation of interface curvature with the level-set method, in MekIT'11 - 6th National Conference on Computational Mechanics. arXiv.

K. E. Teigen, K. Y. Lervåg and S. T. Munkejord, Sharp interface simulations of surfactant-covered drops in electric fields, in Fifth European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECCOMAS CFD 2010. ResearchGate.

Theses

K. Y. Lervåg, “Calculation of interface curvatures with the level-set method for two-phase flow simulations and a second-order diffuse-domain method for elliptic problems in complex geometries”. PhD thesis. Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, September 2013.

K. Y. Lervåg, “Simulation of two-phase flows with varying surface tension”, Master’s thesis, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, June 2008.