Organised by PC United Kingdom with location in London, UK

T​hursday, 10th October 2024

V​enue: The Council Room, 170 Queen's Gate, South Kensington,
London, SW7 5HF

Symposium and Da Vinci Competition

PC UK Presentations

Introduction and welcome

9:00 – 9:10 Oliver Buxton (Imperial College London)

Mini session: sustainable aviation

9:10 – 9:30 Rafael Palacios (Imperial College London), Turbulence in the path of sustainable aircraft
9:30 – 9:50 Sebastian Eastham (Imperial College London), Aerospace sustainability as a problem of multiphase reacting flows
9:50 – 10:10 Irene Dedoussi (University of Cambridge), Forward and adjoint atmospheric modelling approaches for sustainable aviation
10:10 – 10:30 Jennifer Wen (University of Surrey), CFD based predictive tools for liquid hydrogen hazards and their limitations

Coffee break

11:00 – 11:20 Kostas Steiros (Imperial College London), New insights on the self-similar behaviour of turbulent flows
11:20 – 11:40 Maarten van Reeuwijk (Imperial College London), CFD modelling of trees: what is the value of the drag coefficient?
11:40 – 12:00 Omar Matar (Imperial College London), Direct numerical simulations of multiphase flows in stirred vessels and static mixers
12:00 – 12:20 Colm-Cille Caulfield (University of Cambridge), In search of stratified turbulence

Lunch

13:20 – 13:40 Emily Manchester (University of Manchester), Modelling turbulence in cardiovascular disease
13:40 – 14:00 Paul Bruce (Imperial College London), Novel surfaces for the control of hypersonic boundary layer transition
14:00 – 14:20 Lidia Caros Roca (Imperial College London), Aerodynamic optimisation of aerofoils for Martian rotorcraft
14:20 – 14:40 Shane Windsor (University of Bristol), How birds interact with air flows

Coffee break

Finals of the 19^th ERCOFTAC Da Vinci Competition

19:30 Gala Dinner: Restaurant "Ognisko"

P​rogramme available here

F​riday, 11th October 2024
V​enue: The Council Room, 170 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London, SW7 5HF

Technical and Committee Meetings

Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) and Knowledge Network Committee (KNC)
ERCOFTAC Council (EC) and General Assembly (GA) Meetings

09:00 - 12:00 SPC and KNC Meetings
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:30 EC and GA Meetings

Accommodation:

• Park International Hotel - Cromwell Road
• The Bailey's hotel - Gloucester Road
• The Gore - Queen's Gate
• 100 Queen's Gate - Queen's Gate
• The Strathmore (Gem Hotel) - Queen's Gate Gardens
• The Queen's Gate Hotel - Queen's Gate
• Radisson Blu Edwardian Vanderbilt - Cromwell Road

More information on the Imperial website. Please bear in mind that Imperial is in a very expensive part of a very expensive city!

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