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CURRICULUM VITAE Christian LACOR Last update: january 2011 1 PERSONALIA Born 30/06/1956 in Wilrijk Belgian nationality Married, 2 children Tel: +32-2-6292379 Fax: +32-2-6292880 E-mail: [email protected] 2 ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AND DIPLOMA'S PhD Applied Sciences (Engineering). Promoter: Prof. Ch. Hirsch, Greatest Distinction, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), 1986. Title PhD thesis: 'A Computational Method for Steady, Three-Dimensional, Inviscid, Subsonic Flows' Burgerlijk Werktuigkundig-Electrotechnisch Ingenieur (Master of Science In Electromechanical Engineering), Greatest Distinction, VUB, 1979 3 CAREER 1/1/2011 Full professor (gewoon hoogleraar), Faculty of Engineering, VUB 1/3/2005 Chairman of the Research Group Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics 1/8/2001 Professor (hoogleraar), Faculty of Engineering, VUB 1/4/1997 1/8/2001 Associate professor (Hoofddocent), Faculty of Engineering, VUB 1/10/1990-1/4/1997 Assistant professor (Docent), Faculty of Engineering, VUB 1/10/1988-1/10/1990 Senior Research Scientist (Eerstaanwezend assistent), Faculty of Engineering, VUB 1/10/1987-1/10/1988 Research Scientist (Assistant), Faculty of Engineering, VUB
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CURRICULUM VITAE Christian LACOR

Last update: january 2011

1 PERSONALIA

Born 30/06/1956 in Wilrijk

Belgian nationality

Married, 2 children

Tel: +32-2-6292379

Fax: +32-2-6292880

E-mail: [email protected]

2 ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AND DIPLOMA'S

PhD Applied Sciences (Engineering). Promoter: Prof. Ch. Hirsch, Greatest Distinction, Vrije

Universiteit Brussel (VUB), 1986.

Title PhD thesis: 'A Computational Method for Steady, Three-Dimensional, Inviscid, Subsonic

Flows'

Burgerlijk Werktuigkundig-Electrotechnisch Ingenieur (Master of Science In Electromechanical

Engineering), Greatest Distinction, VUB, 1979

3 CAREER

1/1/2011 Full professor (gewoon hoogleraar), Faculty of Engineering, VUB

1/3/2005 Chairman of the Research Group Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics

1/8/2001 Professor (hoogleraar), Faculty of Engineering, VUB

1/4/1997 – 1/8/2001 Associate professor (Hoofddocent), Faculty of Engineering, VUB

1/10/1990-1/4/1997 Assistant professor (Docent), Faculty of Engineering, VUB

1/10/1988-1/10/1990 Senior Research Scientist (Eerstaanwezend assistent), Faculty of Engineering,

VUB

1/10/1987-1/10/1988 Research Scientist (Assistant), Faculty of Engineering, VUB

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1/08/1985-31/7/1987 Senior Researcher at Flemish Science Foundation (Aangesteld Navorser NFWO)

1/10/1980-31/7/1985 Researcher at Flemish Science Foundation (Aspirant Vorser NFWO)

1/10/1979-1/10/1980 Researcher IWONL

4 EDUCATIONAL TASKS

4.1 TEACHING

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

Compulsory courses

Basistechnieken voor computersimulaties (Basic Techniques for Computer Simulations)

5 ECTS, 2nd BA year

Technologie project Werktuigkunde en Elektrotechniek (Technology project Mechanics and

Electrotechnique)

3 ECTS, 2nd BA year

Warmte- en stromingsleer: Basisbegrippen (Heat transfer and fluid mechanics: basics)

7 ECTS, 3rd BA year (responsible for part on fluid mechanics)

Warmte- en stromingsleer: Modelleren (Heat transfer and fluid mechanics: modelling)

7 ECTS, 3rd BA year (responsible for part on fluid mechanics)

Aërodynamica (Aerodynamics)

5 ECTS, 1st MA Electromechanical Engineering

Numerieke technieken in de aërothermodynamica (Numerical techniques in

aerothermodynamics)

5 ECTS, 1st MA Electromechanical Engineering

Elective courses in 2nd MA Electromechanical Engineering

Geavanceerde transportsystemen voor de ruimtevaart (Advanced transport systems for

aerospace)

3 ECTS

Computational Fluid Dynamics

3 ECTS

FACULTY OF SCIENCES

Elective courses

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Computertechnieken voor numerieke analyse (Computer techniques for numerical analysis)

3 ECTS

GRADUATE SCHOOL ON MECHANICS (GRASMECH)

(organized by the different universities in Belgium under the auspices of the National Committee of

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)

Solution of The Time Dependent RANS equations with the Finite Volume Method

3 ECTS (every other year, together with Prof. Dick)

Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes and Large Eddy Simulation Techniques for turbulence and

transition

3 ECTS (every other year, together with Profs. Benocci, Carati, Dick, Winckelmans)

4.2 MASTER THESIS

Promoter of 20 MA thesis in Engineering since academic year 2000-2001

Co-promoter of 2 MA thesis in Engineering together with ENSICA (France)

4.3 EUROPEAN TEMPUS PROJECTS

Numerical and Experimental Engineering Dynamics (NEED)

Period: 1/9/2007-31/8/2009

Course taught at the Faculty of Electrotechnique and Naval Architecture (FESB) of the Univ. of Split::

Basics of CFD for the compressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations

3 ECTS

Electricity Market Simulations and Analysis Curricula for Engineering Education (EMSA)

Period: 1/9/2007-31/8/2009

Numerical simulation program in mechanical engineering (NSP-ME)

Period: 01/09/2005 – 28/2/2009

Course taught at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. Ss. Cyril and Methodious, Skopje,

Macedonia:

Introduction to numerical techniques and basic CFD methodology

3 ECTS

Numerical simulation curricula (NUSIC)

Period: 01/03/2005 - 29/02/2008

Courses taught at the Faculty of Engineering and Naval Architecture (FAMENA) of the Univ. of Zagreb,

Croatia:

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Solution of The Time Dependent Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations with the Finite

Volume Method

3 ECTS

Advanced Methods for solving the Navier-Stokes equations

3 ECTS

4.4 EXCHANGE PROGRAMS

Promoter of SOCRATES agreements with:

ENSICA, Toulouse, France

Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland

TUDelft, the Netherlands

Universiteit Twente, the Netherlands

Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

5 RESEARCH

5.1 PUBLICATIONS (LAST 5 YEARS)

(CO-) AUTHOR OF A SCIENTIFIC MONOGRAPH:

LES and DNS Of Ignition Process And Complex Structure Flames With Local Extinction (Eds. Boguslawski,

Lacor, Geurts), American Institute of Physics, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7354-0726-8

K. Van den Abeele, M. Parsani, C. Lacor

Analysis of spectral volume and spectral difference methods

Chapter in book ‘Adaptive high-order methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics - with applications in

aerospace engineering’ (Ed. Z.J. Wang) to be published by World Science Books, 2011

C. Lacor, E. Turkel

Modern techniques for Solving Partial Differential Equations

Contactforum Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Art, 19/6/2008, ISBN 9789065690418

T. Broeckhoven, C. Lacor, S. Smirnov, J. Ramboer

Spatial and temporal discretization schemes for CAA, chapter in book LES for Acoustics (Eds. Wagner,

Hüttl, Sagaut) p.167-201, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-87144-0

K. Grijspeerdt, D. Vucinic, C. Lacor

Computational fluid dynamics modelling of the hydrodynamics of plate heat exchangers for milk

processing, Chapter 16 in Computational Fluid Dynamics in Food Processing (Ed. D-W. Sun), CRC Press,

2007. ISBN 0-8493-9286-1

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ARTICLES/CONTRIBUTIONS IN SCIENTIFIC MONOGRAPHS:

M. Zakyani, C. Lacor

LES-CMC simulations for piloted non-premixed flames

in LES AND DNS OF IGNITION PROCESS AND COMPLEX STRUCTURE FLAMES WITH LOCAL EXTINCTION (eds.

Boguslawski, Lacor, Geurts), American Institute of Physics, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7354-0726-8

S. Jayaraju, C. Lacor, D. Vucinic, F. Maes, S. Verbanck

Airflow and Aerosol Transport in a Human Mouth-Throat geometry

Coupled Methods in Numerical Dynamics (eds: Zdravko Terze and Chris Lacor), SBN-ISSN: 978-953-6313-

30-3, 2009

M. Parsani, K. Van den Abeele, D. Vucinic, C. Lacor

An Implicit LU-SGS Algorithm for High-Order Spectral Difference Method on Unstructured Grids for

Turbulent Compressible Flows

Coupled Methods in Numerical Dynamics (eds: Zdravko Terze and Chris Lacor), SBN-ISSN: 978-953-6313-

30-3, 2009

M. Ahmadi Bidakhvidi, D. Vucinic, S. Vanlanduit, C. Lacor

Numerical and experimental study of the flappin wing induced flow for micro-air-vehicles propulsion

Coupled Methods in Numerical Dynamics (eds: Zdravko Terze and Chris Lacor), SBN-ISSN: 978-953-6313-

30-3, 2009

E. Brizuela, W. Deconinck, C. Lacor

Accurate Numerical Computation of the Beta PDF

IFRF Electronic Combustion Journal, Article 200902, June 2009

M. Parsani, K. Van den Abeele, C. Lacor

Implicit LU-SGS algorithm with p-multigrid strategy for high-order methods on unstructured grids for

solving the Navier-Stokes equations

Contactforum Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Art, p.123-149, 19/6/2008, ISBN

9789065690418

G. Ghorbaniasl, C. Lacor

Sensitivity of SGS models and quality of LES to grid irregularity

Springer Verlag, ISBN-ISSN: 978-1-4020-8577-2, pp.155-165, 2008

D. Vucinic, D. Deen, E. Oanta, Z. Batarilo, and C. Lacor

Distributed 3D Information Visualization, Towards Integration of the dynamic 3D graphics and Web

Services

Advances in Computer Graphics and Computer Vision, International conferences VISAPP and GRAPP 2006,

CCIS 4, Revised Selected Papers, J. Braz, A. Ranchordas, H. Araujo, and J. Jorge, Eds. Setubal, Portugal:

Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007, pp. 155–168.

C. Lacor, S. T. Jayaraju, M. Brouns, S. Verbanck

Simulation of the Airflow in the Upper Airways with Applications to Aerosols

Coupled Methods in Numerical Dynamics (eds: Zdravko Terze and Chris Lacor), SBN-ISSN: 978-953-6313-

88-4, 2007

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T. Broeckhoven, M. Freitag, C. Lacor, A. Sadiki, J. J.icka

Investigation of Subgrid Scale Wrinkling Models and their impact on the Artificially Thickened Flame

Model in Large Eddy Simulations, CY-LES

Springer Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, 2006

K. Van den Abeele, M. Parsani, C. Lacor

Spectral volume and spectral difference methods: wave propagation analysis and efficient solvers

VKI Lecture Series, 35th

CFD VKI/ADIGMA Course on High-Order Discretization Methods, 13-17/10/2008

M. Fathali, J. Meyers, C. Lacor, M. Baelmans

Impact of Initial Flow parameters on a temporal mixing layer evolution

in ‘Direct and large-Eddy Simulation VI ‘(Eds. Lamballais, Friedrich, Geurts, Métais), ERCOFTAC Series,

Vol.10,Springer,pp.625-634, 2005

ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS WITH AN INTERNATIONAL REFEREE SYSTEM

X.D. Wang, Ch. Hirsch, Sh. Kang, C. Lacor

Multi-objective optimization of turbomachinery using improved NSGA-II

Comp. Meth. Applied mech. and Eng., Vol. 200(9-12):883-895, 2011

S. Verbanck , H.S. Kalsi , M.F. Biddiscombe, V. Agnihotri, B. Belkassem, C. Lacor, and O.S. Usmani

Inspiratory And Expiratory Aerosol Deposition In The Upper Airway

Inhalation Toxicology, accepted Dec. 2010

M. Parsani, G. Ghorbaniasl and C. Lacor

Validation and application of a high-order spectral difference method for flow induced noise simulation

J. Computational Acoustics, accepted November 2010

Kh. Elsayed, C. Lacor

The effect of Cyclone Inlet Dimensions on the Flow Pattern and Performance

Applied Mathematical Modelling, doi:10.1016/j.apm.2010.11.007

Kh. Elsayed, C. Lacor

Optimization of the Cyclone Separator Geometry for Minimum Pressure Drop using Mathematical models

and CFD simulations

Chemical Engineering Science 65:6048-6058, 2010

I. Stankovic, A. Triantafyllidis, E. Mastorakos, C. Lacor and B. Merci

Simulation of hydrogen auto-ignition in a Turbulent co-flow of heated air with LES and CMC approach

Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, DOI: 10.1007/s10494-010-9277-0

M. Parsani, G. Ghorbaniasl, C. Lacor, E. Turkel

An Implicit High-Order Spectral Difference Approach For Large Eddy Simulation

J Computational Physics,229(14):5373-5393, 2010 doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2010.03.038,2010

No. 8 in top 25 hottest articles JCP, April to June 2010

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C. Dinescu, S. Smirnov, Ch. Hirsch, C. Lacor

Assessment of intrusive and non-intrusive non-deterministic CFD methodologies based on Polynomial

Chaos expansions

International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 2, No.1-2, pp. 87-98, 2010

M. Parsani, K. Van den Abeele, C. Lacor and E. Turkel

Implicit LU-SGS algorithm for high-order methods on unstructured grids with p-multigrid strategy for

solving steady Navier-Stokes equations

J Comput Phys, 229:828-850, 2010

P. Widera, G. Ghorbaniasl, C. Lacor

Study of the sediment transport over flat and wavy bottom using Large Eddy Simulation

J of Turbulence, 10(33), pp. 1 - 20. DOI: 10.1080/14685240903264989, 2009

G. Ghorbaniasl, P. Widera, C. Lacor

Quality of dynamic variational multiscale models on distorted grids

J of Turbulence, Vol. 10, No. 22, 2009

P. Widera, E. Toorman, C. Lacor

Large eddy simulation of sediment transport in open channel flow

Journal Hydraulic Research (IAHR), Vol.47, No.3,pp. 291-298, 2009

K. Van den Abeele, G. Ghorbaniasl, M. Parsani, C. Lacor

A stability analysis for the spectral volume method on tetrahedral grids

Journal of Comp. Physics, Vol. 228, No. 2, pp. 257-265, 2009

S. T. Jayaraju, M. Paiva, M. Brouns, C. Lacor, S. Verbanck

The contribution of upper airway to convective mixing.

Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol. 105, pp. 1733-1740, 2008

E. Awad, E. Toorman, C. Lacor

Large Eddy Simulations for quasi-2D turbulence in shallow flows: A comparison between different subgrid

scale models

Journal of Marine Systems, Vol.77, No.4, pp. 511-528, 2009

S. T. Jayaraju, M. Brouns, C. Lacor, B. Belkassem, S. Verbanck

Large Eddy and detached Eddy Simulations of Fluid Flow and Particle Deposition Analysis in a Human

Mouth-Throat

Journal of Aerosol Science 39, 862-875, 2008

J. Meyers, C. Lacor, M. Baelmans

On the use of high-order finite-difference discretization for LES with double decomposition of the subgrid-

scale stresses

International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 56, Issue 4, pp.383-400, 2008

M. Fathali, M. Klein, T. Broeckhoven, C. Lacor, M. Baelmans

Generation of turbulent inflow and initial conditions based on multi-correlated random fields

International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 57, No.1, pp. 93-117, 2008

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K. Van den Abeele, C. Lacor, Z.J. Wang

On the stability and accuracy of the spectral difference method

Journal of Scientific Computing, Issue: In print, eds: C. Bernardi & C.-W. Shu, published by: Springer, ISBN-

ISSN: 0885-7474, Vol. 37, pp. 162-188, 2008

K. Van den Abeele, C. Lacor, Z.J. Wang

On the connection between the spectral volume and the spectral difference method

Journal of Computational Physics, Volume: 227, N° in volume: 2, pp: 877 - 885, eds: G. Tryggvason,

published by: Elsevier, ISBN-ISSN: 0021-9991, 2007

S. T. Jayaraju, M. Brouns, S. Verbanck, C. Lacor

Fluid Flow and Particle Deposition Analysis in a realistic Extrathoracic Airway Model Using Unstructured

Grids

Journal of Aerosol Science, 38(5):494-508,2007

K. Van den Abeele, C. Lacor

An accuracy and stability study of the 2D spectral volume method

Journal of Computational Physics, Volume: 226, N° in volume: 1, pp: 1007 - 1026, eds: G. Tryggvason,

published by: Elsevier, ISBN-ISSN: 0021-9991, 2007

K. Van den Abeele, T. Broeckhoven, C. Lacor

Dispersion and dissipation properties of the 1D spectral volume method and application to a p-multigrid

algorithm

Journal of Computational Physics Volume: 224, N° in volume: 2, pp: 616 - 636, eds: G. Tryggvason,

published by: Elsevier, ISBN-ISSN: 0021-9991, 2007

M. Brouns, S. T. Jayaraju, C. Lacor, J. De Mey, M. Noppen, W. Vincken, S. Verbanck

Tracheal stenosis: a flow dynamics study

Journal of Applied Physiology, Volume: 102, pp: 1178 - 1184, 2007

M. Brouns, S. Verbanck, C. Lacor

Influence of glottic aperture on the tracheal flow

Journal of Biomechanics, Volume: 40, pp: 165 - 172, 2007

J. Ramboer, T. Broeckhoven, S. Smirnov, C. Lacor

OpT.ization of T.e integration schemes coupled to spatial discretization for use in CAA applications

Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 213, Issue 2, 10 April 2006, Pages 777-802, 2006

M. Brouns, T. Broeckhoven, S. Verbanck, C. Lacor

Effects of turbulence modelling on the prediction of aerosol deposition in the trachea

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering : 2005 Vol. 8, num. 1 SUPPL , pp. 45-46

COMMUNICATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES / SYMPOSIA INTEGRALLY

PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS

Kh. Elsayed, C.Lacor.

The effect of cyclone inlet width on the flow pattern and performance

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Tenth International Congress of Fluid Dynamics, ASME, Egypt, ICFD10-EG-3085, accepted for publication,

Ain Soukhna, Red Sea, Egypt, 16-19 December, 2010.

Kh. Elsayed, C.Lacor.

Numerical study on the effect of cyclone inlet height on the flow pattern and performance

Tenth International Congress of Fluid Dynamics, ASME, Egypt, ICFD10-EG-3068, accepted for publication,

Ain Soukhna, Red Sea, Egypt, 16-19 December, 2010.

Kh. Elsayed, C.Lacor

The effect of cyclone dustbin on the flow pattern and performance

Tenth International Congress of Fluid Dynamics, ASME, Egypt, ICFD10-EG-3092, accepted for publication,

Ain Soukhna, Red Sea, Egypt, 16-19 December, 2010.

Kh. Elsayed, C. Lacor

The effect of cyclone height on the flow pattern and performance using LES

Tenth International Congress of Fluid Dynamics, ASME, Egypt, ICFD10-EG-3092, accepted for publication,

Ain Soukhna, Red Sea, Egypt, 16-19 December, 2010

Kh. Elsayed, C. Lacor

Application of Response Surface Methodology for Modeling and OpT.ization of the Cyclone Separator for

Minimum Pressure Drop

Proc. ECCOMAS CFD Conf., Lisbon, June 2010

Kh. Elsayed, C. Lacor

The Effect Of Vortex Finder Diameter On Cyclone Separator Performance And Flow Field

Proc. ECCOMAS CFD Conf., Lisbon, June 2010

M. Parsani, G. Ghorbaniasl, C. Lacor

An implicit high-order spectral difference method for LES

Proc. ECCOMAS CFD Conf. Lisbon, June 2010

V. Agnihotri, Kh Elsayed, C Lacor, S. Verbanck Numerical Study of Particle Deposition in The Human Upper Airways with Emphasis on Hot Spot Formation and Comparison of LES and RANS Models Proc. ECCOMAS CFD Conf., Lisbon, June 2010.

G. Onorato, G.J.A. Loeven, G. Ghorbaniasl, H. Bijl, C. Lacor

Comparison of intrusive and non-intrusive polynomial chaos methods for CFD applications in aeronautics

Proc. ECCOMAS CFD Conf., Lisbon, June 2010.

M. Parsani, G. Ghorbaniasl, C. Lacor

Development of LES-High-Order Spectral Difference Method for Flow Induced Noise Simulation

Proc. 16th

AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conf., 7-9 June 2010, Stockholm

Kh. Elsayed, C. Lacor Modeling of the Gas and Particle Flow in the Cyclone Separator using LES, RANS and Mathematical Models Proc. 14

th International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering AMME-14, Military

Technical College, Cairo, Egypt, May 2010.

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Kh. Elsayed, C. Lacor

Investigation of the Geometrical Parameters Effects on the Performance and the Flow-Field of Cyclone

Separators using Mathematical Models and Large Eddy Simulation

Proc. International Conference on AEROSPACE SCIENCES & AVIATION TECHNOLOGY (ASAT-13), Military

Technical College, Cairo, Egypt, 26-28 May 2009

Kh. Elsayed, C.Lacor

A CFD study of the effects of cone dimensions on the flow field of cyclone separators using LES

Proc. 13th International Conference on AEROSPACE SCIENCES & AVIATION TECHNOLOGY (ASAT-13),

Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt, 26-28 May, 2009.

D. Vucinic, M. Pesut, F. Jovic, C. Lacor

Exploring ontology-based approach to facilitate integration of multi-physics and visualization for

numerical models

ASME 2009 IDETC/CIE, September 2009, San Diego, California, USA.

I. Stankovic, A. Triantafyllidis, E. Mastorakos, C. Lacor, B. Merci

Simulation of hydrogen auto-ignition in a Turbulent co-flow of heated air with LES and CMC approach

6th

Int. Symp. On Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer, 14-18/9/09, Rome

S. Jayaraju, C. Lacor, S. Verbanck

Simulating pharmaceutical aerosol bolus dispersion and deposition in human upper airways: RANS, LES or

DES?

Proc. 1st

Int. Conf. Math. And Comput. Biomedial Eng., Swansea, 29/6-1/7/2009

W. Deconinck, C.P.T. Groth, C. Lacor

Application of high-order discrete explicit filters for LES of compressible turbulent flow

Proc. 17th

Annual Conf. Of the CFD Society of Canada, Ottawa, May 2009

M. Parsani, K. Van den Abeele, C. Lacor, E. Turkel

Simulation of Compressible Turbulent Flows with an Implicit LU-SGS Algorithm for High-Order Spectral

Difference Method on Unstructured Grids

AIAA paper 2009-4143, AIAA CFD conference 22-25/6/2009

C. Dinescu, S. Smirnov, Ch. Hirsch, C. Lacor

Assessment of intrusive and non-intrusive non-deterministic CFD methodologies based on Polynomial

Chaos expansions

44th

Colloquium Applied Aerodynamics, Nantes, 23-25/3/2009

I. Stankovic, A. Triantafyllidis, E. Mastorakos, C. Lacor, B. Merci

Preliminary numerical simulations of hydrogen auto-ignition in a Turbulent co-flow of heated air with

conditional moment Closure

European Combustion Meeting, 14-17/4/09, Vienna

S.T. Jayaraju, M. Brouns, S. Verbanck and C. Lacor

LES & DES Study of Fluid-Particle Dynamics in a Human Mouth-Throat Geometry

Proc. Turbulence Interaction Conf. (TI2009), Martinique, 1-5/6/2009

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K. Van den Abeele, M. Parsani and C. Lacor

An Implicit Spectral Difference Navier-Stokes Solver For Unstructured Hexahedral Grids

47th

AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference, Orlando, J.uary 2009

G. Ghorbaniasl, P. Widera, C. Lacor

A dynamic variational multiscale model in turbulent channel flow with distorted grids

47th AIAA aerospace sciences meeting, 5-8 J.. 2009, Orlando, Florida

E. Awad, E. Toorman, C. Lacor

Horizontal turbulent mixing in 3D hydrodynamic modeling

2008 International Symposium on Shallow Flows, Hong Kong 2008, CD-Rom, Paper A0116, 6 pp.

I. Stankovid, A. Triantafyllidis, E. Mastorakos, C. Lacor and B. Merci

Simulations of hydrogen auto-ignition in a turbulent co-flow of heated air with a conditional moment

closure and LES

Proc. COMBURA 2008 Conf.

D. Vucinic, M. Pesut, A. Aksenov, Z. Mravak, C. Lacor

Towards Interoperable X3D Models and Web-based Environments for Engineering OpT.ization Problems

Int. Conf. on Eng. OpT.ization EngOpt2008, Rio de J.eiro, 1-5/6/2008

G. Ghorbaniasl, P. Widera, Ch. Hirsch, C. Lacor

A numerical simulation of sound wave from permeable surfaces

3rd

Int. Conf. om Mathematical Modelling of Wave Phenomena, Sweden, 9-13/6/2008,

S.T. Jayaraju, M. Brouns, S. Verbanck and C. Lacor

LES & DES study of Fluid-Particle Dynamics In Human Upper Respiratory Pathway

Proc. ECCOMAS Conf., Venice, July 2008

K. Van den Abeele, M. Parsani, C. Lacor and T. Quintino

A spectral volume Navier-Stokes solver on unstructured tetrahedral grids

Proc. ECCOMAS Conf., Venice, July 2008

M. Parsani, K. Van Den Abeele, C. Lacor

Implicit T.e Integration Algorithms For High-Order Methods On Unstructured Tetrahedral Grids With

p−Multigrid Strategy

Proc. ECCOMAS Conf., Venice, July 2008

C. Lacor, S. Smirnov

Non-Deterministic Compressible Navier-Stokes Simulations using Polynomial Chaos

Proc. ECCOMAS Conf., Venice, July 2008

C. Lacor, S. Smirnov

Uncertainty Propagation in the Solution of Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations using Polynomial Chaos

Decomposition

CD Rom Proc. Of NATO AVT symposium Athens, pp.13, December 2007

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T. Broeckhoven, M. Zakyani, C. Lacor

Numerical Study of LES for Non-Premixed Combustion

Proc. LES for Advanced Design and Combustion Systems, LES-AID Cost Action, May 2007, pp. 6

G. Ghorbaniasl, Ch. Hirsch, K. Van Den Abeele, C. Lacor

Verification of noise prediction through acoustic analogy

AIAA Paper, 2007-3558, 2007

M. Parsani, K. Van Den Abeele, C. Lacor

Efficient implicit LU-SGS algorithm for High-Order Spectral Volume Method with p-multigrid strategy

Proc. WEST-EAST HIGH SPEED FLOW FIELD CONFERENCE, Moskou, November 2007

S. Jayaraju, M. Brouns, S. Verbanck and C. Lacor

Lagrangian Particle Tracking on Unstructured Meshes in a CT based Mouth-Throat Geometry

Proc. International Conference on Multiphase Flow, ICMF 2007, Leipzig, Germany, July 9 – 13, 2007

M. Brouns, S. T Jayaraju, C. Lacor, J. De Mey, M. Noppen, W. Vincken, S. Verbanck

Effect of Tracheal Stenosis on Local Pressure Drop

Proc. American Thoracic Society International Conference, San Francisco, 2007

E. Awad, E. Toorman, C. Lacor

Two-dimensional LES for shallow flows: a case of a backward facing step flow

Proc. 32nd

IAHR Congress, 9 pp. Venice, 1-6/7/2007

E. Toorman, C. Lacor, E. Awad, M. Heredia, P. Widera

Scale problems in 3D sediment-transport modeling and suggestions to overcome them

Proc. Colloque Qualité d’Eaux Marines, Société Hydraulique de France, CDRom, 8 pp, Paris 22-23/1/2007.

E. Toorman, C. Lacor, M. Heredia, P. Widera

Upscaling near-bottom sediment-turbulence interaction effects for large-scale 3D sediment transport

modeling

ILCOD 2007, Liege

N. Ivanov, E. Smirnov, C. Lacor

Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Pollutant Dispersion in a Ventilated Atrium

Proc. Roomvent 2007 Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 2007

G. Ghorbaniasl, C. Lacor

Study of the effect of grid irregularity on the quality of LES simulations

Workshop Quality and Reliability of Large-Eddy Simulations (QLES), Belgium, October 2007

G. Ghorbaniasl, Ch. Hirsch, C. Lacor

Quadrupole noise simulation for fan noise prediction

Fan Noise 2007 Conf, Lyon, 17-19 september 2007

N. Ivanov, C. Lacor, E. Smirnov

Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Pollutant Dispersion in a Metro Carriage, Proc. 17th Air-

conditioning and Ventilation Conference, Prague, p.117-122, 17-19/5/2006

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S. T Jayaraju, M. Brouns, C. Lacor, J. De Mey, S. Verbanck

Effects Of Tracheal Stenosis On Flow Dynamics In Upper Human Airways

Proc. ECCOMAS CFD Conf. Egmond aan Zee, 5-8/9/2006

M. Fathali, M. Klein, T. Broeckhoven, C. Lacor, and M. Baelmans5

Stochastic generation of velocity fluctuation for turbulent inflow and initial condition

Proc. Of ICCFD4 Conf., 10-13 july 2006, Ghent

G. Gorbaniasl, Ch. Hirsch, C. Lacor, J. Ramboer

Numerical study of quadrupole noise prediction for moving bodies

Proc. EuroNoise Conf., Finland, 2006

M. Brouns, S. Verbanck, J. Van Beeck, S. Vanlanduit, J. Vanherzeele, C. Lacor

PIV on the flow of a simplified upper airway model

Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics,

2006

K. Van Den Abeele, J. Ramboer, G. Ghorbaniasl, C. Lacor

Numerical Solution of the Linearized Euler Equations Using Compact Schemes

Proceedings International Conference for Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD4), Ghent, 2006

D. Vucinic, D. Deen, E. Oanta, Z. Batarilo, C. Lacor

Distributed 3D information visualization: Towards Integration of the dynamic 3D graphics and Web

Services

Proc. International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP) 2006 Setúbal,

Portugal 25-28 February

T. Broeckhoven, M. Freitag, C. Lacor, A. Sadiki, J. Janicka

Investigation of Subgrid Scale Wrinkling Models and their impact on the Artificially Thickened Flame

Model in Large Eddy Simulations

Proc. Conf. Complex Effects in Large Eddy Simulation, Limassol, September 20-24, 2005

S. Geerts, T. Broeckhoven, Ch. Hirsch, C. Lacor

Validation of CFD and Turbulence Models for Confined Double Annular Jet

AIAA paper No. 2005-5317, AAIA 4th Theoretical Fluid Mechanical Conference, 6-9 June 2005, Toronto,

Ontario.

M. Fathali, J. Meyers, C. Lacor, M. Baelmans

Influence of turbulent initial conditions in numerical simulations of a temporal mixing layer

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advanced Computational Methods in Engineering,

2005

COMMUNICATIONS AT OTHER CONGRESSES INTEGRALLY PUBLISHED IN

PROCEEDINGS

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W. Deconinck, C.P.T. Groth, C. Lacor

High-order discrete explicit filtering for Large Eddy Simulation

CD-Rom Proc. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Brussels, May 2009

Kh. Elsayed, C. Lacor

Study of the Effects of Geometrical Parameters on the Performance of Cyclone Separators

CD-Rom Proc. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Brussels, May 2009

P. Widera, E. Toorman, C. Lacor

Investigation on the influence of various sediment-fluid coupling approaches to the flow and sediment

transport

CD-Rom Proc. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Brussels, May 2009

M. Parsani, K. Van Den Abeele, C. Lacor

An efficient LU-SGS solver for high-order spectral volume schemes on Unstructured grids

Scientific Forum of the Flemish Academy: Modern Techniques for Solving PDE, 19/6/2008

K. Van Den Abeele, J. Ramboer, G. Ghorbaniasl, C. Lacor

Simulation of the sound production by a rotor

Proc. 7th

National Congres on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2006

C. Vanden Haute, C. Lacor

Non-deterministic methods for CFD

Proceedings 7th National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2006

COMMUNICATIONS AT OTHER CONGRESSES NOT PUBLISHED OR ONLY AVAILABLE

AS AN ABSTRACT:

Kh. Elsayed, C. Lacor

Optimization of the cyclone separator geometry based on CFD simulation

Proc. ERCOFTAC Annual Seminar, VUB, 3/12/2009

W. Deconinck, C. Lacor

Application of Discrete Explicit Filters for Large Eddy Simulation of Compressible Turbulent Flow on

Unstructured Grids

Proc. ERCOFTAC Annual Seminar, VUB, 3/12/2009

C. Lacor

Intrusive polynomial chaos for the compressible navier-Stokes equations

Symposium Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Science and Engineering, TU Delft, 7/4/2009.

M. Parsani, K. Van den Abeele, C. Lacor, E. Turkel

Implicit LU-SGS algorithm for high-order methods on unstructured grids

Proc. ERCOFTAC Annual Seminar, KULeuven, 5/12/2008

S. Smirnov, C. Lacor

Non-Deterministic Navier-Stokes Simulations with Polynomial Chaos Method

Proc. ERCOFTAC Annual Seminar, KULeuven, 5/12/2008

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M. Zakyani, C. Lacor

LES and CMC simulations for Sandia D and Delft III flames

Int. Workshop on ‘LES and DNS of ignition process and complex structure flames with local extinction’,

Czestochowa 20-21/11/2008

K. Van Den Abeele, G. Ghorbaniasl, C. Lacor

2D and 3D acoustic pulse simulations with the spectral difference method

X3 Noise National Focus Point symposium, 2008

K. Van Den Abeele, C. Lacor, Z.J. Wang

On the stability of and the relation between spectral volume and spectral difference schemes

Seminar on Discontinuous Galerkin and High Order methods for CFD

Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Art, 8/5/2007

P. Widera, E. Toorman, C. Lacor

Large Eddy Simulation of sediment transport in open channel flow

Proc. ERCOFTAC Annual Seminar, UCL, 8/12/2006

K. Van Den Abeele, C. Lacor

Spectral volume schemes: wave propagation analysis and p-multigrid

Proc. ERCOFTAC Annual Seminar, UCL, 8/12/2006

N. Ivanov, C. Lacor, E. Smirnov

Transient RANS and LES computations of dense gas dispersion

Proc. ERCOFTAC Annual Seminar, CENAERO, 12/12/2005

G. Ghorbaniasl, Ch. Hirsch, C. Lacor

Validation and application of a far-field T.e domain formulation for fan noise prediction

Proc. ERCOFTAC Annual Seminar, CENAERO, 12/12/2005

T. Broeckhoven, M. Freitag, A. Sadiki, J. Janicka, C. Lacor

LES of a premixed combustor with the Artificially Thickened Flame Model

Proc. ERCOFTAC Annual Seminar, CENAERO, 12/12/2005

5.2 INVITED LECTURES (LAST 5 YEARS)

C. Lacor

Intrusive Polynomial Chaos Methods

ONERA Symposium ‘Accuracy and Uncertainty in Flow Simulation’, Chatillon, 3/12/2010

C. Lacor

An LES methodology for unstructured grids with applications to aeroacoustics

‘Maths and Air’ Workshop, Organized by IUMA (Instituto Universitario de Matematicas y Aplicaciones,

Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 16-18/6/2010

M. Parsani, G. Ghorbaniasl, C. Lacor

An Implicit High-Order Spectral Difference Method for LES

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Mini-symposium ‘Towards Industrial Applications of Higher Order methods’, ECCOMAS CFD Conf., Lisbon,

14-17/6/2010

G. Onorato, G.J.A. Loeven, G. Ghorbaniasl, H. Bijl, C. Lacor

Comparison of intrusive and non-intrusive polynomial chaos methods for CFD applications in aeronautics

Mini-symposium ‘Non-deterministic Simulation in CFD’, ECCOMAS CFD Conf., Lisbon, 14-17/6/2010

V. Agnihotri, Kh. Elsayed, C Lacor, S. Verbanck

Numerical Study of Particle Deposition in The Human Upper Airways with Emphasis on Hot Spot

Formation and Comparison of LES and RANS Models

Mini-symposium ‘Bioflows in the airways’, ECCOMAS CFD Conf., Lisbon, 14-17/6/2010

C. Lacor

Fundamentals of CFD and new approaches in CFD

Univ. of Czestochowa (Prof. Boguslawski), 20-21/5/2010

K. Van den Abeele, C. Lacor

The high-order spectral difference method for unstructured grids

Lecture for Collège Belgique, September 2009

S. Jayaraju, C. Lacor, D. Vucinic, F. Maes, S. Verbanck

Airflow and Aerosol Transport in a Human Mouth-Throat geometry

International Symposium on Coupled Methods in Numerical Dynamics, 16-19/9/2009, Split

C. Lacor

Intrusive Polynomial Chaos for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

Symposium Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Science and Engineering, TU Delft, 7/4/2009.

C. Lacor, S. Smirnov

Non-Deterministic Compressible Navier-Stokes Simulations using Polynomial Chaos

Mini-symposium ‘Uncertainty quantification methods in CFD and FSI problems’, ECCOMAS Conf. Venice,

30/6-4/7/2008

C. Lacor, S. T. Jayaraju, M. Brouns, S. Verbanck

Simulation of the Airflow in the Upper Airways with Applications to Aerosols

International Symposium on Coupled Methods in Numerical Dynamics, Dubrovnik, 19-21/9/2007,

Dubrovnik

C. Lacor

On LES: schemes, solvers and some applications at VUB

RWTH Aachen, Institute of Aerodynamics (Prof. Schröder), 1/7/2005

5.3 RESEARCH PROJECTS (LAST 10 YEARS)

PROJECTS WITH EXTERNAL FUNDING

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EC projects

NODESIM-CFD – Non-deterministic simulation for CFD-based Design Methodologies

Period: 01/09/2006 - 31/08/2009

Financing: EC Strep

ITEA SERKET - Securation keeps threats

Period: 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2007

Financing: IWT - via BARCO Control Rooms

FLOWnet - European Thematic Network

Period: 1/12/98-31/11/2001

Financing: EC

Function: Technical Contact

GOA projects (Concerted Research Action)

ASiLung – Towards Air-Breathing Simulations in Realistic Tracheobronchial Geometries of the Normal and

the Diseased Lung

Period: 01/01/2009-31/12/2012

IWT projects (Flemish Institute for Science and Technology)

Functional imaging using computer methods to predict the effect of thoracic surgery and endoscopic

volume reduction on post-intervention long volumes

Period: 1/10/2009-1/4/2011

Financing: IWT TBM (Applied Biomedical Research)

3D-Testbench

Period: 23/9/2009-22/9/201

Financing: IWT ITEA-2

CAPRICORN - Simulation and design tools towards the reduction of aerodynamic noise in confined flows

Period: 01/06/2006 - 31/12/2010

Financing: IWT SBO project

Development of a Large Eddy Simulation methodology for compressible flows on unstructured grids

with application to non-premixed combustion

Period: 01/01/2009 - 31/12/2012

Financing: IWT fellowship

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Development and applications of non-deterministic methods for CFD

Period: 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2007

Financing: IWT fellowship

The development of a code for applications in computational aeroacoustics

Period:01/01/2000 - 31/12/2003

Financing: IWT fellowship

FWO projects (Flemish Science Foundation)

Simulation of non-premixed turbulent combustion with CMC models in combination with LES

Period:01/01/07 - 31/12/2010

Financing: FWO

Development of schemes and models for numerical aeroacoustics on unstructured grid

Period:01/10/2005 - 30/09/2009

Financing: FWO aspirant fellowship

Advanced numerical and experimental techniques for the identification of noise sources in confined

flows

Period: 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2008

Financing: FWO project

Development of simulation models for two-phase flows on geophysical scale with application to

sediment transport in estuaria and coastal zones

Period: 01/01/2004 - 31/12/2007

Financing: FWO project

Medical aerosols : characterisation of aerosol tranport by the upper airway structures.

Period: 01/01/2002 - 31/12/2005

Financing: FWO project

Large Eddy Simulation for multiphase flows and complex physics flows with emphasis on combustion

applications

Period:01/01/2002 - 31/12/2005

Financing: FWO project

Numerical study and application of non-premixed turbulent combustion with LES techniques

Period:01/10/2002 - 30/09/2006

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Financing: FWO aspirant fellowship

Development of models for Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent flows, with applications to combustion

and multiphase flows

Period: 01/01/1998 - 31/12/2001

Financing: FWO project

Other projects

Modeling of high-enthalpy plasmas (PostDoc research)

Period: 01/02/2010 - 31/1/2011

Financing: Von Karman Institute

Mechanical Engineering Applied to Society

Period: 01/01/2007 - 31/12/2012

Financing: IOF (Industrial Research Fund)

Experimental and numerical study of windturbines including aeroelastic effects

Financing: Ecopower – project will start after implant of 2 windturbines on research park of VUB

Towards the development of clinical aerosol applications based on multidisciplinary numerical-

experimental analysis of air- and aerosol flows in the upper airways

Period: 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2006 and 1/10/2007-31/9/2009

Financing: Horizontal Research Action

Development of an improved and an efficient Conditional Moment Closure model for the simulation of

turbulent non-premixed combustion applications

Period: 01/01/2007-31/12/2008

Financing: FWO, Joint Research Project, Cooperation SECyT- FWO Flanders

Modeling of turbulent flows with combustion by Large Eddy Simulation in connection with Conditional

Moment Closure model

Period: 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2008

Financing: BOF-BWS 2005 Bilateral Scientific Co-operation with Univ. Czestochowa, Poland (Prof.

Boguslawski)

BruCare

Period: 01/01/2006 - 30/11/2006

Financing: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (subcontracting of University Hospital of VUB)

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Transient RANS and LES computations of dense gas dispersion. Application to terrorist toxic gas attacks

in public transport

Period: 01/02/2005 - 30/11/2005

Financing: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk gewest - Research in Brussels fellowship (Researcher IVANOV Nikolay

Georgievich, St-Petersburg, Russia)

Implementation of the Ffowcs-Williams Hawking equations for sound in the far field produced by

turbomachinery.

Period: 11/03/2002 - 24/06/2002

Financing: NUMECA INTERNATIONAL N.V.

Projects upon request of industry

CFD study of the injection of wood particles in a coal pipe

Laborelec

February-March 2009

Wind-tunnel study of wind-break barriers to minimalise the dust spreading during discharge of dusty

materials into a silo

Northern Manuport NV

August 2007

Windtunnel measurements of coefficients of wind forces on profiles

Renson Projects NV and WTCM-CRIF

October 2006

Study of the flow around the new Alcatel buildings

Alcatel

Sept. 2002 (together with NUMECA Int. NV)

Aerodynamical study of baffles of compressor groups

Atlas Copco

August 2002

PROJECTS WITH FUNDING OF VUB RESEARCH COUNCIL

Development of intrusive non – deterministic methods for advanced applications in CFD

Giuseppe ONORATO: 1 year VUB fellowship from 1/1/2010-31/12/2010

Micro-scale Assessment and Prediction of Wind Resources for Wind Parks based on Numerical

Modelling and Simulation

Antonino BONANNI: 2 year VUB fellowship from 1/1/2010-31/12/2011

Direct Numerical Simulation of turbulent flows with complex physics and experimental validation using

PIV techniques

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Period: 01/01/2000 - 31/12/2002

5.4 PROMOTER PHD THESIS

M. Parsani: 23/11/2010

Development of an efficient Navier-Stokes/LES solver on unstructured grids for high-order accurate

schemes

X. Wang: 29/10/2010

CFD Simulation of Complex Flows in Turbomachinery and Robust OpT.ization of Blade Design Double diploma with North China Electric Power University

G. Ghorbaniasl: 4/9/2009

Computational Aeroacoustic Noise Prediction Using Hybrid methodologies,

K. Van den Abeele: 29/5/2009

Development of high order accurate methods for unstructured grids

S. Jayaraju: 2/4/09

Study of the air flow and aerosol transport in the human upper airway using LES and DES methodologies

M. Brouns: 11/10/2007

Numerical and Experimental study of Flow and Deposition of Aerosols in the Upper Human Airways

D. Vucinic: 5/9/2007 (co-promoter: Ch. Hirsch)

Development of a Scientific Visualization System

T. Broeckhoven: 23/1/2007

Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent combustion: numerical study and applications

S. Smirnov: 23/10/2006

Development of a finite volume formulation of compact schemes with applications to LES

S. Geerts: 22/5/2006 (co-promoter: Ch. Hirsch)

Experimental and numerical evaluatie study of an axial flow pump

K. Kovalev: 20/12/2005 (co-promoter: Ch. Hirsch)

Unstructured Hexahedral Non-conformal Mesh Generation

O. U. Baran: 20/12/2005 (co-promoter: Ch. Hirsch)

Control methodologies in hexahedral grids generation

J. Ramboer: 30/9/2005

Development of numerical tools for computational Aeroacoustics

B. Lessani: 19/3/2003

LES of Turbulent Flows. Application to low Mach number and particle-laden flows

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5.5 STAYS OF RESEARCHERS AND PROFESSORS OF ABROAD (LAST 10 YEARS)

Prof. Turkel, Tel Aviv University, School of Mathematics, 22-24/11/2010

Prof. A. Boguslawski, Dr. A. Tylisczak, Czestochowa Univ. of Technology, 18/10-23/10/2009

Prof. Feri Farassat, Senior Theoretical Aeroacoustician, Aeroacoustics branch, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA, 28/6-2/7/2009

Prof. P. Popovski, St Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia, 19-22/1/2009

Prof. E. Brizuela, Univ. La Plata, Argentinië, 2/9-30/9/2008

Prof. Turkel, Tel Aviv University, School of Mathematics, sabbatical stay 1/10-30/11/2007 en 1/3-30/6/2008

Dr. Ch. Swanson and Dr. Ch. Rumsey, NASA Langley, 22-26/10/2007

Prof. E. Brizuela, Univ. La Plata, Argentinië, 15/8-6/9/2007

Dr. A. Tylisczak, Czestochowa Univ. of Technology, 4/6-8/6/2007

Prof. E. Brizuela, Univ. La Plata, Argentinië, 25-30/11/2006

Dr. R.V. Filkovski, Faculty Mechanical Engineering, University Sv. Kiril I Metodij, Skopje, Macedonië, 6-24/11/2006

Dr. V. Stojkovic, Faculty Mechanical Engineering, University Sv. Kiril I Metodij, Skopje, Macedonië, 6-24/11/2006

Prof. A. Boguslawski, University of Czestochowa, Poland, 27/11-2/12/2006

Dr. A. Tyliszczak, University of Czestochowa, Poland, 13/11-2/12/2006

Dr. M. Vrdoljak, Fac. Mechanical Engineering, University of Zagreb, 27/11-8/12/2006

Dr. D. Matijasevic, Fac. Mechanical Engineering, University of Zagreb, 27/11-8/12/2006

Dr. A. Tylisczak, Czestochowa Univ. of Technology, 24/4-5/6/2006

Prof. E. Brizuela, Univ. La Plata, Argentinië, 9-13/5/2005

Prof. Wolfgang Schröder, RWTH Aachen, On Acoustic Perturbation Equations to Compute Airframe Noise, 6/6/03

Prof. P. Comte, IMFS, Univ. Strasbourg, Coherent structures in Large-Eddy Simulation of turbulent shear flows, 19/3/03

Ming Xu Qi, Dept. of Thermo Power Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2 December 2001 – 28 February 2002.

Prof. Helen Yee, NASA Ames, Reliability of Higly Nonlinear Complex Numerical Solutions en Adaptive Numerical Dissipation Controls for High Order Methods, 1/6/01

Prof. Hongde Jiang, Dept. of Thermo Power Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, September 2001.

Dr. Jianju Liu, Dept. of Thermo Power Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, September 2001.

Songtao Wang, Dept. of Thermo Power Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 10 September - 5 December 2001.

Prof. Eli Turkel, Department of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, February-March 2001

5.6 CO-OPERATION WITH FOREIGN RESEARCH GROUPS

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Prof. Turkel, School of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Janicka, Energie- und Kraftwerkstechnik, TU Darmstadt

Prof. Mastorakos, Dept. Of Engineering, Univ. Of Cambridge

Prof. Schröder, Faculty Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen

Prof. Bijl, Faculteit Lucht- en Ruimtevaarttechniek, TU Delft

Prof. Z.J. Wang, Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University

Prof. Darquenne, Dept. Medicine, Univ. of California San Diego

Prof. Boguslawski, Institute Thermal Machinery, Czestochowa Univ. of technology, Poland

5.7 EXTERNAL STAYS AS GUESTPROFESSOR / RESEARCHER

Invited Professor at Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland, 19-22/5/2010

Invited Professor at University of Split, 24-27/3/2009

Invited Professor at Sv. Kiril I Metodij University, Skopje, 16-18/4/2007 and 20-22/6/2007

Invited Professor at University of Zagreb, 23-27/1/2006 and 20-24/3/2006

Invited Professor at University of La Plata, Argentina, 4-12/2/2005

Invited Professor at University of Dhaka, 26-30/9/2002

Invited Professor at University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 6-10/4/1998

Visiting researcher at EPFL, Dept. IMHEF, Lausanne, 14/1-12/2/1989

Ames Associate, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, 1/7-14/8/1987

6 MISCELLANEOUS

6.1 MEMBERSHIPS

Member of the CFD committee of ECCOMAS (European Council for Computational Methods in Applied

Sciences)

Member FNRS (Science Foundation of French speaking community in Belgium) commission Mécanique et

Electricité appliquées

Honorary Member of the National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Committee of the

Royal Academy of Belgium)

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Fellow of the VLAC (Flemish Academy for Art and Science)

Member of the Contact Group Numerical Fluid Dynamics (The Netherlands)

Member of the Belgian Pilot Center of ERCOFTAC (European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence

and Combustion)

6.2 REFEREE WORK

Reviewer for EC for ICT program on FET (Future and Emerging Technologies)

Reviewer for INTAS projects

Reviewer for EC for FLOWNET Thematic Network

Reviewer voor SFI Investigator Programme Grant of Science Foundation Ireland

Reviewer for the following journals:

Journal of Computational Physics

Flow, turbulence and combustion

Computers & Fluids

International Journal of CFD

AIAA Journal

Journal of Hazardous Materials

European Journal of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

Aerosol Science and technology

Medical Engineering and Physics


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