Team

Tenured Academic Staff

Joris Degroote

Fluid-structure interaction, quasi-Newton methods

Guest professors

Benoît Marinus (at RMA)

Aeroplanes

Post-doctoral Research Staff

Wim Beyne

Computational fluid dynamics with heat exchange

Nicolas Delaissé

Fluid-structure interaction of elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication

Henri Dolfen

Fluid-structure interaction simulations and uncertainty quantification of flow-induced vibration in tube bundles

Thomas Haas

High-fidelity simulation of airborne wind energy

Research Staff

Axel Bral

Development of techniques to simulate the interaction between airjets and a flexible, fuzzy yarn

Niels Pynaert

Optimization of flexible aircraft models for airborne wind energy

Victor Van Riet

Development of novel techniques for the simulation of solid-liquid phase change problems

Affiliated Research Staff

• Matija Avirovic (Experimental study of passive control of the flow around a high lift-to-drag ratio airfoil at very high altitude, at RMA)
• Amith Balusubramanya (Fluid-structure interaction simulations of cardiovascular problems, at IBiTech)
• Kamiel Ceusters (Development of a numerical multi-physics method to analyze the vibration characteristics of rotating components in liquid metal, at SCK)
• Tom De Bruyn (Adjoint optimization of composite blades, at VKI)
• Romain Poletti (Real-time optimization of bio-inspired wings using the deformable overset method and machine learning, at VKI)
• Mathieu Vervaecke (Fluid-structure interaction simulation of the wire drawing process)

Former researchers

Supporting Staff

• Annick De Coster (Financial and administrative management)
• Yves Maenhout (System administrator)

Visiting Professor

• Benoît Marinus (Aeroplanes)

Retired Academic Staff

• Erik Dick (Mach-uniform algorithms, transition models)