T​he international panel evaluating the submissions to the 2nd ERCOFTAC Milton van Dyke Competition completed its work and chose 5 finalists who will present their work at the upcoming ERCOFTAC Spring Festival in Pisa, Italy, on 16th April 2026, where the winner of the Milton van Dyke Competition will be selected.

The five final visualisations are (in no particular order):

 

 

 

Ignition of Iron Particles in a Turbulent Jet with Hot Co-Flow

 

 

 

 

Droplet Detachment and Bubble Coalescence at the Tail of a Taylor Bubble in Dense Gas/Liquid Flow

 

 

LBM/vLES Numerical Simulation of the Flow Interactions and the Acoustic Propagation Occurring to a Multi-Rotor eVTOL in Transition Maneuver

 

 

 

Supersonic Capsule Wake Interaction with a Disk-Gap-Band Parachute

 

 

 

 

Near-the-Wall Analysis of the NASA Wall-Mounted Hump

 

 

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