The YouSpace team is very pleased to invite you to our 6th “Meeting Space Mentors/Space Mentees”. An opportunity for young ambitious to improve their future professional choice in the space sector by meeting, discussing and maybe contracting a mentoring relationship. An opportunity for the Space Professionals to find the talent that they are looking for! Our guest speaker is Thibaut Jongen CEO of SABCA, an important Belgian aerospace company active in numerous space and aircraft programs like the Ariane space launcher, the Airbus jetliners and Dassault business jets. Our program for Thursday 18:15 - 18:20 Welcome speech Peter Grognard, Managing Director of the von Karman Institute 18:20 - 18:25 Evolution of YouSpace Dominique Tilmans, Chair of YouSpace 18:25 - 18:50 “40 years of SABCA in space, from Ariane 1 to the Space Rider and beyond” Thibaut Jongen, CEO of SABCA 18:50 - 19:00: “The Belgian National Trainee Programme a springboard”!! Stefan Siarov 19:00 - 19:30 Call by Master Students, PhD’s & Young Professionals 19:30 - 21:30: Walking dinner and exchange between Space Mentors /Space Mentees May we ask you to share this invitation amongst your colleagues and for the Professors with your students!! For the good organization we already thank you for confirming your presence to contact@youspace.be. Not yet member? Register on www.youspace.be

We have the pleasure to announce that the Board of directors has appointed Dr. Delphine Laboureur as assistant professor in the VKI faculty, in the environmental and applied fluid dynamics department. Delphine Laboureur graduated from the “Université Catholique de Louvain” in 2006, and followed the VKI Diploma Course in Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics the year after, which she graduated with honors and the price of Excellence in Experimental Research. After one year as customer service engineer at LMS International (now Siemens), she joined the PhD programme of VKI, working on industrial accidents (BLEVE and Boilover) in a research project funded by CEA Gramat. She received her PhD in engineering science from the “Université Libre de Bruxelles” in 2012. She then moved to Texas from 2014 to 2015 to work as a research assistant at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC) at Texas A&M University on process safety related topics like LNG pool fires and dispersion, incident investigation, or offshore safety topics. In 2016, she came back to VKI to work as a research engineer in the Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics Department where she works in topics like detonations in urban environment, nuclear safety (seismic testing), nanoparticle oxidation and ageing, or multi-phase agitation in stirring tanks. In parallel, she has been appointed adjunct faculty at MKOPSC where she mentors 4 to 6 PhD and master students.

You are invited to attend the presentation of Dr. Laura Villafañe (RM 2008, PhD 2014) entitled “Complex flows: from particle-turbulence-radiation interaction to turbulent 3D flowfield data by magnetic resonance imaging”. Her talk will take place on Friday 16 March at 10h30 in the main conference room. This talk will first discuss experiments in a fully developed turbulent flow to study preferential concentration of particles by turbulence, and its impact on the transmission and absorption of thermal radiation. In the context of a particle-based solar receiver, the experimental data are used for validation of physics-based models and computational tools. Laura will present the main experimental findings as well as comparisons between experiments and simulations that highlight the importance of including real effects in the numerical framework, such as polydispersity, collisions, and boundary conditions. Laura will also report on recent experiments on a complex rotating geometry using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques. Magnetic resonance velocimetry (MRV) enables resolving three-component three-dimensional velocity fields without the need of optical access. Applications of MRV to different flow configurations and new developments of MRI techniques will be illustrated. Biography Dr. Laura Villafañe is an engineering research associate in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and member of the Stanford Center for Turbulence Research. Her research focuses on complex flows and heat transfer, including particle-laden flows, transonic aerothermodynamics, and flows in rotating geometries. Prior to joining Stanford as a postdoc, she received a Research Master in Fluid Mechanics and a Ph.D.in Aerospace Engineering from the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI). Dr. Villafañe holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. Free registration to secretariat@vki.ac.be

At the occasion of the 6th Space Dinner this 9 March, Thierry Magin will make a presentation on the following topic: Space debris mitigation, research challenges for aerothermodynamics. His presentation is available in preview: https://www.vki.ac.be/images/download/2018/MaginSpaceDinner.pdf

INVITATION FOR THE STUDENTS AND THEIR PROFESSORS The conference on the future of aeronautics engineering is organized in collaboration with Feronyl and Lockheed Martin. On this occasion, the students will have the opportunity to understand the cutting-edge engineering technology which is behind the most advanced military aircrafts. The programme include: 17h30 Welcome word by Feronyl 17h35 Prof. Olivier Chazot, Head of the Aeronautics and Aerospace Department, von Karman Institute Research from Test to Flight 17h50 Prof. Tom Verstraete, Expert in Turbomachinery and Propulsion, von Karman Institute Aircraft propulsion 18h05 Charles-Edouard Dendoncker, Business Development Manager, Feronyl From research to production in aerospace 18h15 Billie Flynn, F-35 Lightning II Test pilot, Lockheed Martin Research, industrial production and engineering of the JSF aircraft 19h00 Drink During the conference, you will have the opportunity to ask all your burning questions to the speakers. The conference will be followed by a reception. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to learn more about the development process of military aircrafts, from the research, the conception and modelling, the manufacturing followed by engineering tests to finally flying the aircraft! To register , send your First name, Last name, Affiliation, and Email to secretariat@vki.ac.be

Thanks to the 61 years long experience in experimental fluid dynamics, the instrumentation service of the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, the VKI-Instrumentation Service, conceives, develops and operates advance instrumentation for research and industrial applications. Services + Conception and development + Design and manufacturing + Calibration service + On-field operation + Data processing and interpretation + Training on measurements techniques Tools + Design tools + Precision workshop + Electronic lab + Calibration equipment Applications + Cryogenic flows measurements + High enthalpy flows measurements + Optical measurements + Turbomachinery flows measurements + Low-speed aerodynamic measurements https://www.vki-instrumentation.eu

The conference on the future of aeronautics engineering is organized in collaboration with Feronyl and Lockheed Martin. On this occasion, the students will have the opportunity to understand the cutting-edge engineering technology which is behind the most advanced military aircrafts. The programme include: - 17h30 Welcome word by Feronyl - 17h35 Prof. Olivier Chazot, Head of the Aeronautics and Aerospace Department, von Karman Institute Research from Test to Flight - 17h50 Prof. Tom Verstraete, Expert in Turbomachinery and Propulsion, von Karman Institute Aircraft propulsion - 18h05 Charles-Edouard Dendoncker, Business Development Manager, Feronyl From research to production in aerospace - 18h15 Billie Flynn, F-35 Lightning II Test pilot, Lockheed Martin Research, industrial production and engineering of the JSF aircraft - 19h00 Drink During the conference, you will have the opportunity to ask all your burning questions to the speakers. The conference will be followed by a reception. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to learn more about the development process of military aircrafts, from the research, the conception and modelling, the manufacturing followed by engineering tests to finally flying the aircraft! Free registration to secretariat@vki.ac.be (First name, Last name, Affiliation, Email) Venue: von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Waterloosesteenweg 72, B-1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode http://www.vki.ac.be

Research Master in Fluid Dynamics (master-after-master level): Call for applications open! - One-year specialization program (60 ECTS); - master-after-master level accredited by NVAO; - in-depth research oriented specialization in fluid dynamics applied to aeronautics, space, turbomachinery, propulsion, green environment, green energy production and industrial processes; - personal guided research project (30 ECTS upon 60 ECTS) the students can have access to a remarkable set of wind tunnels (from subsonic to hypersonic) and test facilities (for turbomachinery and industrial flows); - Fellowships available; - No tuition fee for many European countries. The program hosts annually 30-35 students from 10-15 different countries. Apart from technical excellence it emphasizes the critical research ability, project leadership and international collaboration in a unique tradition initiated by prof. von Karman in 1956. Online application via our website: www.vki.ac.be. Applications received before 1 April 2018 will be given priority. The Research Master program will start on 1 October 2018.

It is our pleasure to invite you to a seminar given by Dr. Shenren Xu on Tuesday 6th of February at 13:30 in the conference room, entitled: Enabling off-design simulation and optimisation using a Newton solver Abstract: While simulation tools based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) are becoming more commonly used for aerospace and turbomachinery applications at design conditions, it is known that a useful design should also take into account the product performance at off-design conditions. The difficulty with simulating the flow and optimising the performance of products at those condition lies in the lack of both the reliability of the solution and the robustness of the solver itself. The former is mainly related to the modelling error while the latter is purely of numerical origin. In this talk, the background will be discussed, as well as the motivation and some of the numerical recipes for the successful development of Newton CFD solvers. Finally, some preliminary results on a turbomachinery case will be presented using a finite volume CFD solver on three dimensional unstructured cases using a strong implicit scheme, a precursor to the final Newton CFD solver. Free entrance, registration required to secretariat@vki.ac.be

We are pleased to announce that 6 FRIA doctoral fellowships have been granted by FNRS during its Board meeting of 15 December 2017 and two Doctoral (PhD) Grant Strategic Basic Research have been awarded for 2 years by the FWO to PhD candidates enrolled in the VKI PhD program. FRIA stands for "Fonds pour la formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture" and is managed by FNRS (Belgian Scientific Research Foundation for the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles). The Doctoral (PhD) Grant Strategic Basic Research awarded by FWO (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen) allows young researchers to develop into strategically thinking and innovation-oriented scientists. Strategic basic research in the context of a PhD grant stands for challenging and innovative research (at PhD level), which, if successful, may in the longer term lead to innovative applications with economic added value (for specific companies, for a collective of companies, or a sector, or in line with the VRWI transition areas. Candidates who have obtained the grant are: FRIA 1st grant: Joffrey Coheur, Simon Demange, Adriana Enache, Maria Teresa Scelzo FRIA 2nd grant: Bruno Dias, Fernando Miró Miró FWO grant: Francisco Torres Herrador, Ray Vandenhoeck

The purpose of this Lecture Series is to offer a full overview of the present development and the potential of the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulent flows. The first part of the course will introduce and discuss fundamental principles, present state-of-the-art applications. The specific numerical problems related to the implementation of LES will be also presented. The second part will present applications of these approaches to various engineering fields of wide interest. The course will be concluded discussing the possible developments of LES and Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) which represents the most promising technique to extend the usefulness of LES for high Reynolds-number flows. The course will be delivered by internationally recognized experts. Its content is addressed both to researchers interested in the fundamental simulation of turbulence and engineers wanting to apply the LES technique or LES solvers to the accurate simulations of turbulent flows. The lecture series director is Professor Ugo Piomelli from Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. The local organizer is Professor Jeroen van Beeck from the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium.

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