» Biography

She was born in Kalamış İstanbul in 1982.
She completed her primary education in Hüseyin Köse Primary School in Tekirdağ Malkara, secondary education in Malkara Anatolian High School and high school education in Tekirdağ Anatolian High School. In 2002, she won the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Trakya University. She got her bachelor's degree in 2007 as the faculty first. In 2015, she completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Department of Trakya University Institute of Science.
In 2009, she started to work as a research assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Trakya University. Since the beginning of 2016, she has been working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Trakya University.

» Educational Qualifications

» Publications

SCI-SSCI or SCI Expanded Articles

  • Heat Transfer Modelling and Simulation of a 120 mm Smoothbore Gun Barrel During Interior Ballistics,” Defence Science Journal, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 30–39, Jan. 2022. (January 2022)
  • Aldelio Bueno Caldeira, Çiğdem Susantez, ‘‘A simplified numerical approach to hydrogen and hydrocarbon combustion in single and double-layer porous burners’’ International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 45, No 60, pp. 35235-35245, 2020.
  • Çiğdem Susantez, Aldelio Bueno Caldeira, ‘‘Genetic Algortihm Optimization of a TNT Solidification Model’’ Defence Science Journal, Vol. 69, No. 6, pp. 545-549, 2019.
  • Çiğdem Susantez, Kamil Kahveci, Numerical Investigation of Buoyancy Driven Heat Transfer of Water-Based CuO Nanofluids in a Rectangular Enclosure with an Offcenter Solid Conducting Body, Journal of Thermal Science and Technology, 109-127, 37(2), 2017

International Conference Proceedings

  • Çiğdem Susantez, Hilmi Kuşçu, Kamil Kahveci, Cooling Glove Compartment of a Vehicle by Thermoelectric Coolers, Environment. Technology. Resources. 15th International Scientific and Practical Conference. (June 2024)
  • Çiğdem Susantez, Kamil Kahveci, Oktay Hacıhafızoğlu, Hilmi Kuşçu, Effects of the Projectile Position Inside the Cartridge and Cartridge Thickness on the Cook-off, Unitech 2022 Gabrovo International Scientific Conference (November 2022)
  • Çiğdem Susantez, Bruna R. Loiola, and Aldélio B. Caldeira, Numerical Analysis of Explosive Solidification Under The Effect of Different Boundary Conditions, Proceedings of CHT-21 ICHMT International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer August 15 - 19, 2021, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (August 2021)

National Articles

  • Çiğdem Susantez, Investigation of Interior Ballistics of Gun Barrels with Vallier-Heydenreich Method, Savunma Bilimleri Dergisi (The Journal of Defense Sciences), cilt: 19/1, sayı:37, Mayıs 2020. (May 2020)

National Conference Proceedings

  • Bruna Rafaella Loiola, Çiğdem Susantez, Aldelio Bueno Caldeira, Numerical Simulatıon of TNT Casting in a Shaped Charge Shell, 18th Brazilian Congress of Thermal Sciences and Engineering (ENCIT 2020) November 16-20, 2020, Bento Gonçalves, RS, Brazil. (November 2020)

Master`s Theses Advised

  • Hakan Koç, The Effect of Reducing Pressure Loss of Hydraulic Oil Used in Construction Machinery and Tractor on Fuel Economy, Trakya University, Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences, 2024 (June 2024)
  • Hasan Melih Özkan, Investigation of heat transfer in an enclosure containing constant temperature objects, Trakya University Institute of Natural Sciences, 2023 (January 2023)

Referee Positions

  • Journal of Thermal Science and Technology (March 2017)
  • Trakya University Journal of Engineering Sciences(1) (December 2015)
  • Nanomaterials and Energy(1) (July 2013)