Members of the Research Team
- Philippe Billuart, doctoral student (co-adviser prof. Ph. Chatelain)
- Denis-Gabriel Caprace, doctoral student (co-adviser prof. Ph. Chatelain)
- Thomas Gillis, doctoral student (co adviser prof. Ph. Chatelain)
- Maud Moens, doctoral student (co-adviser prof. Ph. Chatelain)
- Philippe Parmentier, doctoral student (co-adviser prof. Ph. Chatelain)
Collaborative theses
- Sophia Buckingham, doctoral student, VKI (co-adviser prof. Y. Bartosiewicz and Jeroen Van Beek of VKI)
Numerical simulation of a backward facing step with heat transfer in liquid metal - Ariane Frère, doctoral student, CENAERO (co-adviser prof. Ph. Chatelain)
Past members
- Laurent Bricteux, UMons
Simulation of turbulent aircraft wake vortex flows and their impact on the signals returned by a coherent Doppler Lidar system (completed March 2008) - Corentin Carton de Wiart
Towards a discontinuous galerkin solver for scale-resolving simulations of moderate reynolds number flows, and application to industrial cases (completed May 2014) - co-advisor prof. Jean-François Remacle (UCL) - Roger Cocle
Combining the vortex-in-cell and parallel fast multipole methods for efficient domain decomposition simulations: DNS and LES approches (completed August 2007) - Goéric Daeninck
Developments in hybrid approaches: vortex method with known separation location, vortex method with near-wall ulerian solver RANS-LES coupling (completed December 2006) - Ivan De Visscher, WaPT
Interaction of wake vortices with the atmosphere and the ground (completed May 2012) - Matthieu Duponcheel, UCL
Direct and large-eddy simulation of turbulent wall-bounded flows: further development of a parallel solver, improvement of multiscale subgrid models and investigation of vortex pairs in ground effect (completed October 2009) - Laurent Georges
Development and validation of a LES methodology for complex wall-bounded flows (completed June 2007) - Hervé Jeanmart, professor at UCL
Investigation of novel approaches and models for large-eddy simulation of turbulent flows (completed December 2002) - Timothée Lonfils
Vortex particle-mesh method with combined immersed boundary and mesh refinement techniques. Application to bluff-body and wake-vortex flows (completed May 2011) - Yves Marichal, WaPT
An immersed interface vortex particle-mesh method (completed September 2014) - co-advisor prof. Philippe Chatelain (UCL) - Paul Ploumhans
Simulation of high Reynolds number flows past bluff bodies using vortex and boundary element methods (completed 2001) - François Thirifay
Simulation of non-reactive and reactive shear flows using lagrangian particle methods (completed May 2006) - Olivier Thiry
Investigation of wall shear stress models for large eddy simulation (completed January 2017) - Péter Vass
Numerical investigation of the tip leakage flow in different high pressure turbine blade configurations (completed June 2012) - co-advisor prof. Tony Arts (the von Karman Institutefor Fluid Dynamics - VKI)
Postdoctoral research fellow
- Dr. Louis Dufresne, Postdoctoral Fellow, funded by the National Sciences and Research COuncil (NSERC) of Canada, then by EC projects : AWIATOR, FAR-Wake and WakeNet2-Europe (2002-2004)