Finals of the 20th ERCOFTAC Da Vinci Competition 2025

Thursday, 9th October 2025

T​homas Monahan - winner
of the 20th ERCOFTAC Da Vinci Competition 2025

 

D​a Vinci Winner 2025

 

Thomas Monahan (University of Oxford, UK)

Spatiotemporal Tidal Prediction and Analysis Using Physics-Informed Ml

Da Vinci P​resentation available here - tbc

Interview available here - tbc

 

 

 

 

 

D​a Vinci Finalists 2025

 

Deniz Bezgin (TU Munich, Germany )

Toward Machine-learned Discretizations and Differentiable CFD for Compressible Two-phase Flows

Da Vinci P​resentation available here - tbc
P​aper summary available here

 

Jean-Jacques Hok (CERFACS, France)

Modeling Strategy for the Large Eddy Simulation of Lean Hydrogen-Air Explosions

 

Yash Kulkarni (Sorbonne Universite & CNRS, France )

Theoretical and Numerical Modelling of Three-Phase Dynamic Contact Line and Atomisation

Da Vinci P​resentation available here - tbc
P​aper summary available here

 

Daniel Moron (University of Bremen, Germany)

The Transitional Regime of Pulsatile Pipe Flow

Da Vinci P​resentation available here
P​aper summary available here

 

F​rom left: Prof Maria Vittoria Salvetti, SPC Chair and the 20th Da Vinci Finalists: Yash Kulkarni, Deniz Bezgin, Daniel Moron, Jean-Jacques Hok and Thomas Monahan

 

Presentations:

Deniz Bezgin (TU Munich, Germany)
Toward Machine-learned Discretizations and Differentiable CFD for Compressible Two-phase Flows
Jean-Jacques Hok (CERFACS, France)
Modeling Strategy for the Large Eddy Simulation of Lean Hydrogen-Air Explosions
Yash Kulkarni (Sorbonne Universite & CNRS, France)
Theoretical and Numerical Modelling of Three-Phase Dynamic Contact Line and Atomisation
Thomas Monahan (University of Oxford, UK)
Spatiotemporal Tidal Prediction
and Analysis Using Physics-Informed Ml
Daniel Moron (University of Bremen, Germany)
The Transitional Regime of Pulsatile Pipe Flow
 

 

 

Date: ERCOFTAC Autumn Festival 2025, 9th - 10th October 2025
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt (Campus “Lichtwiese”)
Hosted by Pilot Centre Germany: TU Darmstadt, Germany

Information about past events is available here