Anton BERGANT

Dr. Anton Bergant has become involved in hydraulics as a junior fireman in his village. As a professional engineer and researcher, he has focused on the hydraulics of water turbines and systems. He leads the Applied Research and Calculations Department in Litostroj Power and is a part-time employee with at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. In Litostroj, he has been the principal investigator on many research and industrial projects for domestic and international customers. He has served as a member of professional boards for the resolution of water hammer and flow-induced vibration problems. Dr. Bergant’s main topic of research is the transient cavitating pipe flow. He is currently collaborating with researchers from Australia, Canada, China, The Netherlands, Montenegro, and Poland. He has been involved in the design and construction of several experimental apparatuses (Adelaide, Delft, Podgorica) and the development of software codes for hydraulic transients in systems. Recently he has developed a novel water hammer interferometer.

Water Hammer in Zlatoličje hydropower plant, Slovenia. Powerhouse with channels and Kaplan turbine. Comparison of calculated and measured results for the emergency shutdown of the turbine unit from the load of 75 MW.

1957 Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia

1980 Joins Litostroj, Slovenia

1981 Undergraduate degree, thesis on water hammer, University of Ljubljana

1985 Master’s degree, University of Ljubljana

1989 Research officer, University of Adelaide (to 1993)

1993 Defends doctorate on transient cavitating flow, University of Ljubljana

1996 Assistant professor, University of Ljubljana

1998 Head of department, Litostroj

2001 Parttime employment, University of Ljubljana

2009 Associate professor, University of Ljubljana

Izbrana dela | Important Works

A. Bergant, A.R. Simpson, and J. Vítkovský (2001) Developments in unsteady pipe flow friction modelling. Journal of Hydraulic Research 39(3):249-258.

A. Bergant, A.R. Simpson, and A.S. Tijsseling (2006) Water hammer with column separation: a historical review. Journal of Fluids and Structures 22(2):135-171.

Selected Awards

2016 Recognition of University of Montenegro

2009 Decoration for special merits, FA Slovenia

1995, 1997 SSF and MST postdoctoral fellowships - University of Adelaide

1987 ORS award, United Kingdom

1986 RA visiting scholarship - University of Leeds