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Organised by PC Belgium with location in Liège, Belgium

T​hursday, 12th October 2023
V​enue: University of Liège, Salle des Professeurs, Rectorat, Batiment A1, Place du 20 Août 7-9, 4000 Liège

Symposium and Da Vinci Competition

PC Belgium Presentations

08:30 – 08:45 Coffee
08:45 – 09:00 Opening remarks and welcome word
09:00 – 10:30 Symposium – part 1

• Raphaël Dubois (Université de Liège) - Investigation of the Flow around Twin Cylinders in the Post-critical Regime

• Nicolas Delaissé (Ghent University) - Simulation of Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication

• Alessio Papa (Université de Mons) - Flashback Prevention in a Micro Gas Turbine Fuelled By Hydrogen without any Combustor Redesign

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Symposium – part 2

• Romain Debroeyer (Université Catholique de Louvain) - Analysis of Mixing Phenomena in a Supersonic Air Ejector Using Large Eddy Simulation

• Margaux Boxho (Cenaero, Université de Liège, Université Catholique de Louvain) - Development of Machine Learning Based Wall Shear Stress Models for LES in the Presence of Adverse Pressure Gradients and Separation

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Symposium – part 3

• Johan Meyers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - Development and Validation of Wind-Farm Blockage and Wake Models

• Thierry Magin (von Kármán Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Université Libre de Bruxelles) - Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic Flows

• Alessandro Parente (Université Libre de Bruxelles) - Data-driven, physics-informed simulation of turbulent reacting flows: current state, challenges and perspectives

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee

Finals of the 18^th ERCOFTAC Da Vinci Competition

15:00 – 15:20

Niklas Hidman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Dynamics of Bubbles across Scales

15:20 – 15:40

Christian Lagemann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Optical Flow Learning in Particle-Image Velocimetry

15:40 – 16:00

Esther Lagemann - Mäteling (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Modal Scale Decomposition in Turbulent Flows

16:00 - 16:20

Javier Sierra-Ausin (IMFT Toulouse, France)
Mode interactions in External Flows

16:20 – 16:40

Kamila Zdybał (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Reduced-Order Modeling Of Turbulent Reacting Flows Using Data-Driven Approaches

16:40 – 17:10 Coffee Break / Committee meets and selects a winner
17:10 – 17:40 Da Vinci Award Ceremony and Closing
19:30 Gala Dinner

F​riday, 13th October 2023
Venue: Sart-Tilman Campus, University of Liège

Technical and Committee Meetings

Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) and Knowledge Network Committee (KNC)
Managing Board (MB) and General Assembly (GA) Meetings

09:00 - 12:00 SPC and KNC Meetings
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:30 MB and GA Meetings
15:30 - 16:30 Lab visits: Hydraulics, Thermodynamics and Wind Tunnel

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Accommodation:

• Hotels in walking distance to the University of Liege, Rectorat (first day) in the city centre (~ Opera): there are many options going from apartments, small boutique hotels and the larger ones: Pentahotel, Van der Valk Congres (other side of the Meuse, nice walk of about 10' in the morning), Selys.

• Hotels convenient for transport, near Guillemins are a good option (late arrival, easy bus connection to center and campus): Ibis Styles or the Yust hotels as probably good/safe options as they are brand new and part of chains. This is the easiest in terms of transport, but requires a 20' walk to go to the Rectorat; for the second day, there are the buses in front of the hotel.

T​raveling to Sart-Tilman Campus (second day):

• For the second day, the best option is to take the bus from Guillemins station (48 or 58) and stop at Polytech. Taxis are available for around €25 - €30. For bus service https://www.letec.be/ctronic tickets are available with the app installed.
  

Arriving to Liege:

• for almost every one, and especially UK, France and Netherlands, the best is to go to Bruxelles-Midi, either from the airport (Zaventem) or direct by train. There are fast connections from UK (Eurostar), from France/Netherlands (Thalys) and Germany (ICE), next to regular trains. From Bruxelles-Midi, there are direct trains to Liège Guillemins once an hour (Liège-Welkenraedt, about 1h). For tickets : https://www.belgiantrain.be (NL/FR/EN). Belgian train tickets are not on reservation - they are valid for one ride during the whole day. Train conductors accept electronic tickets (obtained via mail, or a dedicated app), no need to print if a bar/qr code is present.

• another option is Brussels-South (Charleroi) airport. From there, you there is a bus shuttle 1 (6 euro, buy ticket before boarding on electronic distributor, every 30') to Charleroi-Central train station; from there you have a direct train to Liège Guillemins (Liège-Herstal, 1h30 travel) every hour.

• for German participants, there is in fact a much better option since the ICE to Brussels (from Cologne) stop at Liège Guillemins.

• for people staying in the city center, there are a few small stations in the city itself. In particular Liège Saint-Lambert is close to the Opera. You will have to change trains in Guillemins.

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