Ercoftac Autumn Festival 2009

1-2nd October 2009
EPFL
Lausanne, Switzerland

Thursday 1st October

8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee, Room CO 011

9:00-12:00 Presentations by ERCOFTAC Special Interest Group coordinators and members

Anthony Hutton - The emerging role of hybrid simulations
Jari Hämäläinen - Fibre suspension flows: State-of-the-art modeling and experiments
Anton van Steenhoven -Bio-thermal modelling of patients under hypothermic conditions

10:15-10:45 Coffee Break

Sedat Tardu - Microfluidics: State-of-the-art
René Oliemans - Best practice guidelines for computational turbulent dispersed multiphase flows
Michael Leschziner - Simulation of synthetic jets

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-17:30 The ERCOFTAC 'da Vinci 2009 Doctoral Thesis Award', Room CO 011

Presentations by the finalists, followed by the awards ceremony

BenjaminBohm - Experiments for the validation of LES: Turbulence-flameinteractions in extinguishing turbulent opposed jet flames - TUDarmstadt, Germany.
Angela Ferrari -A new parallel 3D SPH scheme for free surface flows - University of Trento, Italy.
Sven Grundmann - Transition control using dielectric-barrier discharge actuators - TU Darmstadt, Germany.
Florian Schwertfirm - Direct simulation and modelling of micromixing in high Schmidt number flows - TU Munchen, Germany.
JeroenWitteveen - Efficient and robust uncertainty quantification forcomputational fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction - TUDelft, The Netherlands.

9:00-12:00

12:00-14:00 Buffet lunch

14:00-17:00 Managing Board and General Assembly meetings, Room CO 122

There is no registration fee for the ERCOFTAC Autumn Festival or the committee meetings.
Coffee and refreshments will be provided.
Lunch on the 1st of October is at the participant's cost at one of the many restaurants on the EPFL campus.
The cost of the evening meal on the 1st October is covered personally by those attending.
Participants are responsible for arranging their own accommodation in Lausanne.
Documents for the committee meetings will be distributed in the coming weeks.