Team
Tenured Academic Staff
Guest professors
Research Staff
Development of techniques to simulate the interaction between airjets and a flexible, fuzzy yarn
Development of novel techniques for the simulation of solid-liquid phase change problems
Affiliated Research Staff
- Daniele Di Cristofaro: Fluid-structure interaction of hydrofoils, at Polimi
- 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
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
- Romain Poletti: Flight control of flapping-wing micro air vehicles using CFD simulations and reinforcement twinning, at VKI
- Mathieu Vervaecke: Fluid-structure interaction simulation of the wire drawing process
- Nicolas Delaissé: Quasi-Newton methods for partitioned simulation of fluid-structure interaction and 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 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
Faculty member at KU Leuven - 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, at Composites
- Akil Osman: Computational fluid-structure interaction study of the aeroelastic behavior of a wire in transonic and supersonic flows
Faculty member at University of Aleppo - 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