1st Milton van Dyke Competition final took place on the 22nd of May 2025 during the Spring Festival hosted by PC Nordic at the Department of Fluid Mechanics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Five invited finalists presented their visualisations and answered questions from the audience. After vivid discussion Committee nominated the winner.
Iván Padilla-Montero accepted the award for
the winning visualisation of
the 1st Milton van Dyke Competition 2025.
(from left: Prof Koen Hillewaert, KNC Deputy Chairman,
Ivan Padilla-Montero, Dr Andrea Sciacchitano, KNC Chairman)
The Winner of the 1st ERCOFTAC Milton van Dyke Competition is
Iván Padilla-Montero, Daniel Rodríguez
from the School of Aeronautics (ETSIAE), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain;
and Vincent Jaunet, Stève Girard, Damien Eysseric and Peter Jordan
from the Institut Pprime, Université de Poitiers - CNRS - ISAE/ENSMA, France;
for the visualisation:
The Regimes of Twin-Jet Flow
Also during the final the 10 distinguished visualisations for high quality and esthetical value were presented and the authors could join the meeting online to comment and answer the questions from the audience.
Ivan Padilla-Montero presenting visualisation
"The Regimes of Twin-Jet Flow"
Narendra Dev presenting visualisation
"Bubble Formation by Air Fingers
in Multi-Plunging Jets"
Guillermo Marin presenting visualisation
"Simulation of the Airflow Around an Airplane"
Philipp Schlatter presenting visualisation
"Direct Numerical Simulation of a Starting Rotor"
Mars Thys presenting visualisation
"Simulation of Wake-Blade Interactions in
a High-Speed Low-Pressure Turbine Cascade Using a High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Method"
1st Milton van Dyke Five Finalists with ERCOFTAC KNC Chairmen
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