Adriaan van Niekerk

Lecturer in Design and Dynamics

University of the West of England

Biography

My name is Adriaan van Niekerk, and my passion is designing innovate engineering products and teaching others to do the same. My mission is to share the knowledge and experience gained after numerous years working in this field.

This site provides you with a glimpse of what I have been up to as well as external links to all my social media accounts and projects.

Interests

Programming engineering solutions
Validate models through experimentation
Continuously improving designs
Teaching others

Education

PhD in Automotive Engineering, 2020

University of the West of England
MEng in Nuclear Engineering, 2016

North West University
BEng in Mechanical Engineering, 2013

North West University

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Recent Posts

Create a fuel file in Ricardo WAVE

How to create a fuel file in Ricardo WAVE.

Dec 29, 2020 2 min read

My recording gear

A list of items that I use to create my videos.

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Ideal Rankine Cycle with feedwater heater calculations

How to calculate the thernal efficiency of an Ideal Rankine Cycle with a regenerative cycle using Python and PYroMat

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Ideal Rankine Cycle with reheat calculations

How to calculate the thernal efficiency of an Ideal Rankine Cycle with reheat using Python and PYroMat

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Ideal Rankine Cycle calculations

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Courses

Understanding Thermodynamics

Understanding Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics.

Jun 30, 2020