Thursday, 10th October 2024
Venue: The Council Room, 170 Queen's Gate, South Kensington,
London, SW7 5HF
Symposium and Da Vinci Competition
PC UK Presentations
Introduction and welcome
9:00 – 9:10 Oliver Buxton (Imperial College London)
Mini session: sustainable aviation
9:10 – 9:30 Rafael Palacios (Imperial College London), Turbulence in the path of sustainable aircraft
9:30 – 9:50 Sebastian Eastham (Imperial College London), Aerospace sustainability as a problem of multiphase reacting flows
9:50 – 10:10 Irene Dedoussi (University of Cambridge), Forward and adjoint atmospheric modelling approaches for sustainable aviation
10:10 – 10:30 Jennifer Wen (University of Surrey), CFD based predictive tools for liquid hydrogen hazards and their limitations
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:20 Kostas Steiros (Imperial College London), New insights on the self-similar behaviour of turbulent flows
11:20 – 11:40 Maarten van Reeuwijk (Imperial College London), CFD modelling of trees: what is the value of the drag coefficient?
11:40 – 12:00 Omar Matar (Imperial College London), Direct numerical simulations of multiphase flows in stirred vessels and static mixers
12:00 – 12:20 Colm-Cille Caulfield (University of Cambridge), In search of stratified turbulence
Lunch
13:20 – 13:40 Emily Manchester (University of Manchester), Modelling turbulence in cardiovascular disease
13:40 – 14:00 Paul Bruce (Imperial College London), Novel surfaces for the control of hypersonic boundary layer transition
14:00 – 14:20 Lidia Caros Roca (Imperial College London), Aerodynamic optimisation of aerofoils for Martian rotorcraft
14:20 – 14:40 Shane Windsor (University of Bristol), How birds interact with air flows
Coffee break
Finals of the 19th ERCOFTAC Da Vinci Competition
15:00 – 15:20
Neelakash Biswas (Imperial College London, UK)
Multiscale Energy Transfers in the Near Wake of a Model Wind Turbine
15:20 – 15:40
Christopher Geschwindner (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Optical Diagnostics for Carbonaceous Solid Fuels and Flame Retarded Polymers in Laminar And Turbulent Flows
15:40 – 16:00
Daniele Massaro (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Space-Adaptive Simulation of Transition and Turbulence in Shear Flows
16:00 – 16:20
Fabio Pino (The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium)
Feedback Control of Liquid Metal Coating
16:20 – 16:40
Matthias Steinhausen (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Modeling of Near-Wall Flame Dynamics in Laminar and Turbulent Combustion
16:40 – 17:10
Coffee Break (and committee deliberating)
17:10 – 17:20
Decision & presentation of da Vinci award
17:20 – 17:30
Closing remarks
19:30 Gala Dinner: Restaurant "Ognisko"
Friday, 11th October 2024
Venue: The Council Room, 170 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London, SW7 5HF
Technical and Committee Meetings
Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) and Knowledge Network Committee (KNC)
ERCOFTAC Council (EC) and General Assembly (GA) Meetings
09:00 - 12:00 SPC and KNC Meetings
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:30 EC and GA Meetings
More information on the Imperial website. Please bear in mind that Imperial is in a very expensive part of a very expensive city!
Co-organisers:
The Festival is hosted by the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial in association with the Brahmal Institute for Sustainable Aviation
Sponsors:
The Autumn Festival is sponsored by Zenotech Ltd.
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