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Organised by PC Belgium with location in Liège, Belgium

T​hursday, 12th October 2023
V​enue: University of Liège, Salle des Professeurs, Rectorat, Batiment A1, Place du 20 Août 7-9, 4000 Liège

Symposium and Da Vinci Competition

PC Belgium Presentations

08:30 – 08:45 Coffee
08:45 – 09:00 Opening remarks and welcome word
09:00 – 10:30 Symposium – part 1

• Raphaël Dubois (Université de Liège) - Investigation of the Flow around Twin Cylinders in the Post-critical Regime

• Nicolas Delaissé (Ghent University) - Simulation of Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication

• Alessio Pappa (Université de Mons) - Flashback Prevention in a Micro Gas Turbine Fuelled By Hydrogen without any Combustor Redesign

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Symposium – part 2

• Romain Debroeyer (Université Catholique de Louvain) - Analysis of Mixing Phenomena in a Supersonic Air Ejector Using Large Eddy Simulation

• Margaux Boxho (Cenaero, Université de Liège, Université Catholique de Louvain) - Development of Machine Learning Based Wall Shear Stress Models for LES in the Presence of Adverse Pressure Gradients and Separation

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Symposium – part 3

• Johan Meyers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - Development and Validation of Wind-Farm Blockage and Wake Models

• Thierry Magin (von Kármán Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Université Libre de Bruxelles) - Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic Flows

• Alessandro Parente (Université Libre de Bruxelles) - Data-driven, physics-informed simulation of turbulent reacting flows: current state, challenges and perspectives

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee

Finals of the 18^th ERCOFTAC Da Vinci Competition

V​enue: University of Liège, Salle Académique, Rectorat, Batiment A1, Place du 20 Août 7-9, 4000 Liège

15:00 – 15:20

Niklas Hidman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Dynamics of Bubbles across Scales

15:20 – 15:40

Christian Lagemann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Optical Flow Learning in Particle-Image Velocimetry

15:40 – 16:00

Esther Lagemann - Mäteling (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Modal Scale Decomposition in Turbulent Flows

16:00 - 16:20

Javier Sierra-Ausin (IMFT Toulouse, France)
Mode interactions in External Flows

16:20 – 16:40

Kamila Zdybał (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Reduced-Order Modeling Of Turbulent Reacting Flows Using Data-Driven Approaches

16:40 – 17:10 Coffee Break / Committee meets and selects a winner
17:10 – 17:40 Da Vinci Award Ceremony and Closing

19:30 Gala Dinner: Restaurant: Histoire Sans Faim; Rue Sebastien Laruelle 3, 4000 Liege

F​riday, 13th October 2023
V​enue:Salle du Décanat, Institut de Mathématiques, B37, Sart-Tilman Campus, University of Liege

Technical and Committee Meetings

Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) and Knowledge Network Committee (KNC)
Managing Board (MB) and General Assembly (GA) Meetings

09:00 - 12:00 SPC and KNC Meetings
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:30 MB and GA Meetings
15:30 - 16:30 Lab visits: Hydraulics, Thermodynamics and Wind Tunnel

Download the p​rogramme here

Accommodation:

• Hotels in walking distance to the University of Liege, Rectorat (first day) in the city centre (~ Opera): there are many options going from apartments, small boutique hotels and the larger ones: Pentahotel, Van der Valk Congres (other side of the Meuse, nice walk of about 10' in the morning), Selys.

• Hotels convenient for transport, near Guillemins are a good option (late arrival, easy bus connection to center and campus): Ibis Styles or the Yust hotels as probably good/safe options as they are brand new and part of chains. This is the easiest in terms of transport, but requires a 20' walk to go to the Rectorat; for the second day, there are the buses in front of the hotel.

T​raveling to Sart-Tilman Campus (second day):

• For the second day, the best option is to take the bus from Guillemins station (48 or 58) and stop at Polytech. Taxis are available for around €25 - €30. For bus service https://www.letec.be/ctronic tickets are available with the app installed. If traveling by carto the Campus there are parking places available right next to the building (in Allée de la Découverte).

Arriving to Liege:

• for almost every one, and especially UK, France and Netherlands, the best is to go to Bruxelles-Midi, either from the airport (Zaventem) or direct by train. There are fast connections from UK (Eurostar), from France/Netherlands (Thalys) and Germany (ICE), next to regular trains. From Bruxelles-Midi, there are direct trains to Liège Guillemins once an hour (Liège-Welkenraedt, about 1h). For tickets : https://www.belgiantrain.be (NL/FR/EN). Belgian train tickets are not on reservation - they are valid for one ride during the whole day. Train conductors accept electronic tickets (obtained via mail, or a dedicated app), no need to print if a bar/qr code is present.

• another option is Brussels-South (Charleroi) airport. From there, you there is a bus shuttle 1 (6 euro, buy ticket before boarding on electronic distributor, every 30') to Charleroi-Central train station; from there you have a direct train to Liège Guillemins (Liège-Herstal, 1h30 travel) every hour.

• for German participants, there is in fact a much better option since the ICE to Brussels (from Cologne) stop at Liège Guillemins.

• for people staying in the city center, there are a few small stations in the city itself. In particular Liège Saint-Lambert is close to the Opera. You will have to change trains in Guillemins.

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