Team
Tenured Academic Staff
Guest professors
Post-doctoral Research Staff
Fluid-structure interaction simulations and uncertainty quantification of flow-induced vibration in tube bundles
Research Staff
Development of techniques to simulate the interaction between airjets and a flexible, fuzzy yarn
Multi-fidelity simulation of airborne wind energy systems
Geometry- and turbulence-resolved simulation of airborne wind energy systems
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)
- Vinayak Ramachandran Nambiar (Leading edge erosion of wind turbine blades by droplet impact, at Soete)
- 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)
Supporting Staff
- Annick De Coster (Financial and administrative management)
- Yves Maenhout (System administrator)
Retired Academic Staff
- Erik Dick (Mach-uniform algorithms, transition models)
Former Staff
- Thomas Haas (High-fidelity simulation of airborne wind energy systems)
- Wim Beyne (Design methods for thermal storage systems)
- Navaneeth Kodunthirappully Narayanan (Development of fluid-structure interaction algorithms for tents subjected to ponding water and wind flow)
- Sarah Vandenbulcke (Computational biomechanics modeling of the cerebrospinal fluid: model development and application to Chiari type 1 malformation, at IBiTech)
- François Trigaux (Scale-resolved aeroelastic simulation of large wind turbines using the actuator line method, at UCLouvain)
- Peyman Havaej (CFD-FSI modelling of thermo-elastohydrodynamic lubrication in line contacts, at Soete)
- Nicolas Boutet (Analytical study of multi-secant quasi-Newton methods for optimization problems, at RMA)
- Federico Canè (Patient-specific computational fluid dynamics models of the human left heart using the chimera technique, at IBiTech)
- Kelbij Star (Development of reduced order modeling methods for incompressible flows with heat transfer and parametric boundary conditions, at SCK-CEN)
- Toon Demeester (Efficient quasi-Newton methods for steady free surface flow)
- Alec Bagué (Fluid-structure interaction of hydrofoils, at Maritime)
- Lucas Delcour (Development of numerical modelling techniques for air-jet weft insertion)
- Laurent De Moerloose (Computational analysis of two-phase flow-induced vibration in heat exchanger and piping geometries)
- Jimmy Colliers (Wind-structure interactions of tensile surface structures, at VUB)
- Alireza Rasekh (Thermal study of axial flux permanent magnet synchronous machines)
- Jolan Wauters (Development and application of surrogate-assisted optimization under uncertainty strategies for unmanned aerial vehicles)
- Gilberto Santo (Fluid-structure interaction simulations of wind turbines with composite blades)
- Mathijs Peeters (Efficient methods for automated conversion of wind turbine blade designs into high-fidelity finite element models with shell and solid elements)
- Akil Osman (Computational fluid-structure interaction study of the aeroelastic behavior of a wire in transonic and supersonic flows)
- Iva Papeš (Computational analysis of a twin screw expander for small scale ORC systems)
- Alessandra Bavo (Integrating valve leaflet motion into patient-specific numerical blood flow simulations of the human heart : strategies and challenges)
- Jeroen De Ridder (Computational analysis of flow-induced vibrations in fuel rod bundles of next generation nuclear reactors)
- Jan Vierendeels (Fluid-structure interaction based on computational fluid dynamics)