2025: Bruxelles
The 2025 annual conference was held at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Rhode-Saint-Genèse, Belgium.
First day
| Time | Session, Slides & Video |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome coffee & Poster installation |
| 09:00 – 09:40 | Role of CFD in new generation nuclear reactor design Speaker: Koloszar Lilla |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Extreme responses of ships and offshore structures with OpenFOAM Speaker: Lasbleis Marine |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Study of wing-sail interactions on a ship under realistic conditions Speaker: Gouriou Clément |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Poster flash presentations Speaker: Poster holders |
| 10:40 – 11:20 | Discussions around posters, with cakes and coffee |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | LES and RANS simulations of non-isothermal flows in corrugated channels Speaker: Montiel Nicolas |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | ParaView for OpenFOAM Speaker: Mazen François |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Advances in liquid film simulations using geometric volume-of-fluid Speaker: Gamet Lionel |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Implementation and Validation Case of Radiation-Particles Interaction Speaker: Chopard Etienne |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | Lunch time |
| 14:00 – 14:40 | Personal perspectives of OpenSource versus Commercial and In-house developments Speaker: Mendonca Fred |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Development and validation of phase-change models in OpenFOAM v11 Speaker: Cantiani Antonio |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Numerical simulation of a swirling flow in an industrial cyclone separator using hybrid turbulence models Speaker: Benzaza Ishak |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Physics-based localized data assimilation methodology coupled with OpenFOAM Speaker: Er Sarp |
| 15:40 – 16:20 | Discussions around posters, with cakes and coffee |
| 16:20 – 16:30 | Sponsor presentation Speaker: Cadence |
| 16:30 – 16:50 | Bioclogging in In-Situ Bioremediation: Insights from a Numerical Modeling Approach Speaker: Eddaoui Noura |
| 16:50 – 17:10 | Topological Optimisation of Heatsinks Speaker: Hélié Jérôme |
| 17:10 – 17:30 | A Multi-fidelity Data Assimilation algorithm enhanced by Convolutional Neural Network Speaker: Moussie Tom |
| 17:30 – 18:45 | Tour of VKI facilities |
| 18:45 – 19:30 | Travel to Brussels city center (by bus, organized by the conference) |
| 19:30 | Gala diner |
Second day
| Time | Session, Slides & Video |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome coffee |
| 09:00 – 09:40 | Partitioned fluid-structure interaction simulations using OpenFOAM Speaker: Degroote Joris |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Enhancement of LES for the analysis of an intake flow rig via Data Assimilation Speaker: Meldi Marcello |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | A new CFD-DEM for simulating particulate transport and pore clogging in porous media Speaker: Soulaine Cyprien |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | CFD design of passive ventilation in apartment buildings Speaker: Joshi Shrey |
| 10:40 – 11:20 | Discussions around posters, with cakes and coffee |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | 3D simulation of landslide generated waves Speaker: Louis-Napoléon Aurélie |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | A Continuous Immersed Boundary Method for Centrifugal Pump Simulation in OpenFOAM Speaker: Martinez Valero Miguel |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | On the gas-liquid coupling instability in jet wiping using high and low fidelity models Speaker: Barreiro David |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Ray-tracing rendering of OpenFOAM simulations Speaker: Recoquillon Yann |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | Lunch time |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Round table |
| 16:00 – 16:10 | End of the conference - Closing address |
| 16:10 – 17:40 | FOAM-U general assembly |
Posters
| Poster title | Author / Presenter |
|---|---|
Bubbly flow and light interaction | Pozzobon Victor |
Long term Wave propagation in CFD based Numerical Wave Tank with Domain and Functional Decomposition | Aliyar Sithik |
Development of a 3D multiphase model for Hydrogen Evolution in an Electrolysis Stack | Ashok Aswath |
Heat transfer on boiling mechanism in low gravity | Khairy Guillem |
Improving Film Cooling Efficiency Using Anti-Vortex Hole Configurations: A CFD Study with OpenFOAM | Belouddane Ilyes |
Diffusiophoresis: a process to remediate a porous medium | Cajot Florian |
Euler-Euler simulations to describe colloidal transport for groundwater remediation | Cheikh Nassim |