Da Vinci Finalists 2026

Jordi Casacuberta Puig (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Instability And Transition of Swept-Wing Flow

Asif Manzoor Hasan (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Compressibility Effects in Near-Wall Turbulence

Matthew McCormack (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh)
Transition and Multistability in Magnetoconvection

Luca Placco (Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
High-Fidelity Modelling of Supersonic Decelerators for Planetary Descent

Jana Wedel (University of Maribor, Slovenia, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany)
Dancing with the Flow: Numerical Modelling of Non-Ideal Micro-Particles in Fluids