E​uropean Drag Reduction
a​nd Flow Control Meeting (EDRFCM) 2024

10th - 13th September 2024

Castello del Valentino Turin (Torino), Italy

 

ERCOFTAC Drag Reduction and Flow Control special interest group (SIG 20) is pleased to announce the next European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting (EDRFCM 2024) at Castello del Valentino, Turin (Torino), Italy under the patronage of the Politecnico di Torino.

Subjects:

All laminar & turbulent drag reduction and flow & noise control studies, including: riblets, surface roughness, porous surface, compliant walls, polymer & surfactant additives, synthetic jets, super-hydrophobic surfaces, flexible structures, wall oscillations, travelling waves, flow separation control, plasma flow control, electro-magnetic control and machine learning.

Organisers:
  • Jacopo Serpieri, Politecnico di Torino, jacopo.serpieri@polito.it
  • Kwing-So Choi, University of Nottingham, kwing-so.choi@nottingham.ac.uk
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    P​rogramme and Book of Abstracts:

    Meeting Programme can be downloaded from here.

    Book of Abstracts can be downloaded from here.

    Registration:

    The registration fee is 390 EURO (reduced to 350 EURO for ERCOFTAC members), which includes lunch, coffee and tea over the 4-day meeting and a Book of Abstract. It also includes tickets to a welcome reception, visit to Castello del Valentino and a meeting banquet.

    Meeting Venue:
    The meeting will be held at Castello del Valentino, a beautiful late-medieval palace and UNESCO world heritage site, which is located in the homonymous parkin the city centre and along the Po river. The city of Turin (Torino) features magnificent examples of Italian baroque and liberty architecture and is the gateway to the western Italian Alps and to the picturesque Langhe and Monferrato countryside areas.

    Some useful information in Torino can be found here.