2007 da Vinci Competition


Four candidates were invited to present their research for the 2007 da Vinci award at ERCOFTAC's Autumn Festival, Belgian Royal Academy, Brussels, October '07: 

Markus Holzner Experimental and numerical study on the small scale features of turbulent entrainment

Roland Bouffanais Large simulation of shear-driven flows: Transition with a free surface & confined turbulence

Frank Schäfer Visualisation and analysis of three-dimensional simulation data of turbulent flows at high temporal resolution

Mark Phil Simens The study and control of turbulent wall bounded flows

 

Winner of the 2007 da Vinci award 

Markus Holzner, ETH Zurich, for his paper on:

Experimental and numerical study on the small scale features of turbulent entrainment

A full report of the 2007 da Vinci competition, including all papers, is in ERCOFTAC Bulletin 75.