Projects
Global circulation and mesoscale modeling of the Martian atmosphere: Applied to the detection of subsurface liquid water KU Leuven
The search for life in our solar system has been one of the most interesting topics in natural sciences. Based on the observations for Earth, the keystone of life is liquid water. On Mars, water ice exists under the surface. Moreover, a recent discovery has proven the existence of a liquid water lake beneath the south polar cap. Considering the possibility that Early Mars was covered with an ocean, if Mars had harboured life, the life on ...
Short- and Long-Term Optimal Control of Hybrid GEOTABS Buildings KU Leuven
This dissertation investigates the optimal control of hybrid GEOTABS buildings both in the short- and the long-term, and with a focus on the geothermal borefield aspect. Building energy intensities have decreased since the 90s, but not enough to offset the strong growth in building floor area. As a result, global building energy use and related CO2 emissions continue to rise. More efforts towards energy efficient buildings are necessary. One ...
A new-generation high-order Flux Reconstruction solver to model aerothermodynamics and transition for hypersonic vehicles KU Leuven
During the last decade there has been a renewed interest worldwide in hypersonic flows research by space agencies, academia, aerospace and aviation industry. When designing hypersonic vehicles (e.g. for future manned or robotic space missions, tourism, new-generation airliners), the characterization of aerothermodynamics (ATD) is arguably the most critical aspect to consider, involving phenomena such as chemical dissociation/ionization and ...
Massively Parallel and Robust High-Order Methods for Transitional Hypersonic Flow Modelling on Unstructured Grids: Application to Reusable Launcher Stages KU Leuven
During their ascent and descent trajectories, reusable space vehicles travel primarily in the hypersonic regime (5 < Mach < 25) which is characterized by high speeds, strong shock waves, chemical dissociation, radiation, viscous interaction, etc. Additionally, the flow experiences various changes in regimes, i.e. laminar, transitional and turbulent, along the trajectory. Prediction of the onset and extent of the transition from laminar ...
Development of a CFD tool and associated experimental validation validation KU Leuven
In navigation areas with bottoms covered by a thick fluid mud layer, deep-drafted ships may be allowed to sail at a limited vertical distance above the mud-water separation , and sometimes ships even sail through the mud. This causes a very intense interaction between the water column, the mud layer and the ship. The purpose of this project is to develop a numerical methodology to calculate the interaction between water, mud and a moving ...
Non-linear and time-varying data-based modeling of rotating machinery. University of Antwerp
Modelling and control of Non-Newtonian fluids (MOCONEF) Ghent University
This project aims to offer a theoretical and practical (experimental) framework to test dynamics and motion variations in liquids which fall beyond the classical linear Newtonian properties. Such liquids are very often encountered in practice, to enumerate a few: blood, liquid detergent, liquid steel, oil, shampoo, ice/water mixture, gel, etc. The novelty of the proposed approach is that emerging tools from mathematics are cross-fertilized ...
Adaptive multi-scale and multi-fluid modeling of the solar-atmosphere KU Leuven
The overarching goal of this project is to develop an innovative multi-scale approach for simulating the transport and conversion of vast amounts of energies in different forms within the solar atmosphere, by combining novel self-consistent multi-fluid models with pioneering integrated adaptive procedures. The resulting simulation model will allow for a dynamic adaptation of both the physico-chemical models and the computational mesh in ...