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4th International Workshop on Flow-Induced Blood Damage in Rotating Systems (BDW2024) - Report

The 4 th International Workshop on Flow-Induced Blood Damage in Rotating Systems (BDW2024) has been a great success. It took place on the 5 th and 6 th of September 2024 in Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany. Figure 1: Impressions of the BDW2024 After the first edition in 2019, its second


ERCOFTAC Spring Festival 2025 - Date Announced: 22nd-23rd May 2025

ERCOFTAC Spring Festival 2025 - the date has been announced: 22nd - 23rd May 2025 Organised by PC Nordic with location in Stockholm, Sweden. Please save the date and do spread the word. R​ead more


Chairperson’s Address October 2024

Chairperson's Address, October 2024 Dear Colleagues and Members, A few weeks ago, we were having the Autumn Festival in London hosted by a previous da Vinci winner: Professor Oliver Buxton ( find a recent interview here ). The da Vinci award makes the Autumn Festival special and one of my


Interview with Prof. Jonathan Morrison - SIG47 Coordinator

We are starting a new series of communications to promote activities conducted within ERCOFTAC SIGs to give more visibility and increase participation to the different SIGs. For this purpose, we are going to ask SIG Coordinators to answer a few questions. T​he first coordinator who replied to us


Autumn Festival 2024: PC United Kingdom

We hope you all found the ERCOFTAC Autumn Festival 2024 enlightening , insightful and enjoyable! Thank you to the PC United Kingdom and Imperial College London : Prof. Oliver BUXTON Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London O​liver was ERCOFTAC Da Vinci winner in 2010


19th Da Vinci Competition Winners 2024

Matthias Steinhausen and Christopher Geschwindner - Two Winners of 19th Da Vinci Competition 2024 The Winners of the 19th Da Vinci Competition 2024 Congratulations to: Christopher Geschwindner (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) who won with his paper Optical Diagnostics for