Development of shock-capturing strategies for the high-order discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) applied to scale-resolved simulations of turbulent flows.
Quantification of the impact of manufacturing geometric uncertainties and tolerances on the global performance of low-pressure compressors and development of through-flow models. Walloon region project MARIETTA.
Development of a fluid-mechanics-based model for stalagmite growth that incorporates the trajectory of falling drops, the drop impact and splash, and the chemical processes in the thin residual film.
> Physical Review Fluids, 8(5), 2023
> Proceedings of the Royal Society. Mathematical, Physical and Egineering Sciences, 475, 2019
Extension of the open-source coupling tool CUPyDO to perform partitioned unsteady adjoint calculations using heterogeneous fluid and solid solvers.
Numerical and experimental investigation of the crossing of an object through a fluid-fluid interface, liquid entrainment and film drainage. Numerical simulations are based on the Particle-Finite Element Method (PFEM). FNRS project WOLFLOW.
> Physical Review Fluids, 9, 2024
Bi-global stability analysis of the interaction between a laminar boundary layer and an impinging shock wave to better understand the transition to turbulence and the breathing dynamics of the recirculation bubble.
Extension of PFEM (Particle-Finite Element Method) that treats solid and fluid phases in a homogeneous framework and integrates phase changes and heat transfer in order to simulate additive manufacturing processes.
Investigation of multiphysics turbulent flows involving the transport of active quantities with low diffusivity, including mixed (forced + natural) convection at large Prandtl number and viscoelastic turbulence (elasto-inertial turbulence) at high Schmidt number.
Development of a Python-based flexible coupling tool, CUPyDO, for fully partitioned unsteady fluid-structure interaction simulations, including under-relaxation coupling algorithms, non-matching interface meshes and multi-core parallelization.
> Advances in Engineering Software, 128, 2019
> Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 348, 2019
Development of dartflow, a 3D full potential flow and adjoint solver based on the finite element method (FEM) with coupling through CUPyDO for steady fluid structure interaction calculations and aeroelastic optimization.
New unsteady aerodynamic modeling methodology for predicting the transonic flutter of 2D and 3D configurations, in which the flow response to small amplitude periodic deformations of the structure over a range of frequencies is obtained through the interpolation of few dominant flow modes.
Development of a fully-partitioned approach in CUPyDO combining the particle finite element method (PFEM) and the finite element method (FEM) for fluid-structure interation problems involving free surfaces, large deformations and strong added-mass effects.
> Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 348, 2019
> Advances in Engineering Software, 128, 2019
> International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 110(10), 2016
Physical modeling, simulations and experimental study of the fiber drawing process used in the manufacturing of fibreglass.
Analysis of the aerodynamic loads and flow dynamics around a 4:1 rectangular cylinder and oscillating flat plates at high angle-of-attack.
> Experiments in Fluids, 58(5), 2017
> Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodyanamics, 189, 2019
Development of an efficient flamelet-based combustion model for compressible flows, with applications in scramjet simulations.
> Combustion and Flame, 162(3), 2015
