Herman Deconinck

Retired Full Professor

Aeronautics and Aerospace Department

von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Waterloosesteenweg 72
1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode

Phone: +32 2 359 96 18

Biography

Education

Ph.D. Applied Sciences, Vrije Univ. Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, 1983
University degree in Mechanical Engineering, Vrije Univ. Brussel (VUB), Belgium, 1977

Career

2010-2019: Dean of faculty VKI, responsible for educational programs of the VKI

2010-present: Full Professor at BRUFACE, Brussels Faculty of Engineering (joint master program between the VUB and ULB universities of Brussels).

2007-2010: Head, Aeronautics/Aerospace Dept, von Karman Institute

1999-2003: Head, Aeronautics/Aerospace Dept, von Karman Institute

1996-present: Full Professor, Aeronautics/Aerospace Dept, von Karman Institute

1990-1996: Associate Professor, von Karman Institute

1990-present: Full Professor, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

1986-1990: Assistant Professor, von Karman Institute

1983-1986: Research Scientist, Dept Fl. Dyn., Univ. Brussels (VUB)

Awards and Memberships

2010-present : Belgian delegate at IFAR, International forum for Aviation Research
2010-present : Belgian delegate in the Scientific Council of ERCOFTAC
2008-2010: Chairman Computational Fluid Dynamics committee of ECCOMAS (European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences)
2001-present: Member Scientific Council of CENAERO
1990-1998: Member AGARD Fluid Dynamics Panel

1998-2004: Member, NATO-RTO Applied Vehicle Technology panel (level 3)

Member of Editorial Board of “International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering”, since 2001
Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, (resulting from the merger of the ICNMFD et ISCFD conferences), since 1999, now ICCFD
Member of steering committee 1^st, 2^nd and 3d International Workshop on High-Order CFD Methods (2012, 2013, planned 2014)
Member of Editorial Advisory Board of “Computers and Fluids”, 1996-2009
Member of Editorial Advisory Board of “Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal”
1997-2004: Member Steering Committee of European Science Foundation (ESF) project AMIF: Applied Mathematics for Industrial Flows
2010-present: Member Computational Fluid Dynamics committee of ECCOMAS
1998-present: Member Steering committee of GRASMECH: Graduate School for Mechanics of the Belgian Universities
1996-2012: Member of the steering group WOG of FWO-Flanders on Advanced Numerical Methods for Mathematical Modeling”
2000-present: Member of Dutch-Flemish Working group on numerical analysis: Werkgemeenschapscommissie Numerieke Wiskunde

Service to Society

Evaluations

European Commission Growth 4^th, 5^th6^th, 7^th framework program: Aeronautics
External evaluator for “Bonus Incentive Scheme for Research Schools” of the Dutch NWO (1997)
Expert Committees for Industrial project grants offered by the Brussels regional government (IRSIB), (2000-2013)
Expert evaluator for Industrial project grants offered by the Flemish regional government (IWT)
Expert Evaluator for EU commission, Directorate H – Transport – FP6 and FP7
Reviewer of papers for: Journal of Computational Physics, SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, Computers and Fluids, AIAA Journal

Member of Promotion Committees/Request of Recommendations for Promotions

Advice for tenure position at The University of Texas at Austin (USA), Technical University of Delft (Nl), University of Toronto (Ca).

Organizer and chairman of sessions on:

Member Technical and programme committee of Fourth Symposium on Aerothermodynamics fro Space Vehicles, Caserta, Italy, 16-18 October 2001
Organiser INGENET Case studies Open Day, June 8, 2001, VKI
Member Scientific Committee of West East High Speed Flow Field Conference, april 22-26, 2002, IUSTI Université de Provence, Marseiles
Session organiser and/or session chairman conferences at: ECCOMAS conferences AIAA CFD and Fluid Dynamics conferences, other CFD conferences (ICCFD, Canadian CFD, ACOMEN)

Conference and Event Organizer (conferences, lecture series, workshops)

Organizer and chairman of ICCFD4 Conference, Gent, July 2006
Co-chairman ECCOMAS 5^th European Conference in CFD, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010
Co-chairman SIMBIO11 conference, Simulation and Modeling of Biological Flows, Brussels, 2011
Director of VKI advanced CFD Lecture Series, almost annually since 1987.

Teaching

Formal Courses

Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics 1 (NMFD1, VKI): (1.25 ECTS)
Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics 2 (NMFD2, VKI): (3 ECTS)
Computational fluid dynamics for compressible flows (CMCF, VKI): (4 ECTS)
Computational fluid dynamics for incompressible flows (CMIF, VKI) (4 ECTS)
Since 2007-2008: Inviscid Aerodynamics – Compressible flow: (CMCF, VKI) (4 ECTS)
Fluid dynamics of compressible flows (Brussels University ULB), 30 hrs
Aerodynamics (BRUFACE, Brussels universities ULB and VUB), 30 hrs

Lecturer at Special Courses

Computational Methods for hyperbolic conservation laws, (30 hrs guest course) Capita Selecta KULeuven, 1995
Biannually since 1999: Course at doctoral level in the framework of GRASMECH, the Graduate School in Mechanics of the Belgian Universities: Advanced Finite Volume and Finite Element techniques for convection-diffusion problems (8 hrs).
Multidimensional upwind methods for unstructured grids. AGARD short course ``Unstructured grid methods for advection dominated flows'', AGARD R-787, in September 1992 at the NASA Ames Res. Center, California.
Residual distribution methods for compressible flow. Cours INRIA-CEA, Versailles 25-28 April, 2000

Invited Lecturer at

Invited speaker NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), September 17-28, 1984, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey
Invited speaker for ``Workshop on FV methods for the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations", Oxford, 20-21 March, 1991
Invited speaker for the ``4th International Symposium on Computational Fluid dynamics", Davis, CA, USA, 9-12 September, 1991
Invited speaker for the ICASE/NASA Langley RC Workshop on ``Algorithmic trends for Computational Fluid Dynamics in the 90's", Hampton, Virginia, USA, 15-17 September 1991
Invited speaker for Internal Colloquium, INRIA Roquencourt, 5-6 January, 1992
Invited speaker, Conference on supercomputing in Science and Industry, June 1-5, 1992, Monte Verita, Ticino, Switzerland
Invited speaker for the Workshop on ``Unstructured grid methods for Fluid Mechanics Problems", University of Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, Minneapolis, USA, 13 July, 1993.
Invited speaker for Internes Kolloquium, DLR Braunschweig, 26 October 1993
Keynote speaker for the 4th ICFD Conference, Oxford, 3-6 April, 1995
Keynote speaker for the ``Conference on Numerical Methods for the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations", Montréal, 14-16 September, 1995
Invited speaker for Internes Colloquium, Darmstadt, November 23, 1995
Keynote speaker on Algorithms for the ``15th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics", Monterey, June 24-28, 1996
Invited speaker for symposium held in the honor of prof. Godunov: Godunov’s method for gas dynamics, May 1-2, 1997, U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Invited lecturer for workshop on hyperbolic conservation laws, KTH, Stockholm, 13-17 December, 1997
Organizer AMIF-ESF workshop “computing methods for compressible flow with low Mach number effects, Courchevel, 7-9 January, 1998
Organizer, chairman and speaker minisymposium “unstructured grid methods for aerodynamic simulation”, ECCOMAS 98, Athens, September 7-11, 1998
Co-organisor conference on Applied Mathematics for Industrial flow problems (AMIF), 1-3 0ctober 1998, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain
Invited speaker for NFD 2000, “Towards a new Fluid Dynamics with its challenges in Aerospace engineering”, symposium held in the honor of Dr. J. Perrier, Paris, 20-23 November, 2000
Co-organiser (with Prof. R. Abgrall) and keynote speaker Workshop on accurate methods for hyperbolic systems : Residual based schemes, Discontinuous Galerkin methods and adaptation, Bordeaux, June 17-19, 2002
Invited speaker Study Day Belgian Royal Academy, National Comity for Logics, History and Phylosophy of Sciences, “Research in Space Technologies”, december 12, 2003
Invited keynote speaker 11^th ICCAM meeting, International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Leuven, July 26-30, 2004,
Invited keynote speaker Woudschoten Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Numerical Analysis Communities, October 12-14, Woudschoten, The Netherlands, 2005
Invited keynote speaker, 3d International Conference on Advanced Computational Methods in Engineering (ACOMEN), Gent, May 30 – June 2, 2005
Invited Keynote speaker 15th Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada?Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 27-31, 2007, Toronto, May 2007
Invited Keynote speaker 18^th Polish National Conference of Fluid Mechanics KKMP08, Gdansk, Poland, September 21-25, 2008

Research

Main Research Interest

Computational Fluid Dynamics: Development of algorithms for CFD solvers and grid generation. Finite element and Residual Distribution Methods.
Finite Volume methods, multigrid, hybrid grid generation.
Applications in aeronautics, hypersonic reentry flows, plasma flow, aero-acoustics, turbomachinery, two-phase flow, MHD, electrochemical reactors, nuclear engineering, space weather simulation

Research Activities

Software:

Development of the collaborative multiphysics software platform COOLFluiD since 2002, see https://github.com/andrealani/COOLFluiD/wiki. Apart from 12 PhD candidates at VKI, about 10 external partners collaborated in this software platform initiated and managed by VKI, working on different methods and applications: aerothermodynamics, aerodynamics, higher order schemes, space weather, ion transport in electrochemical reactors, conjugate heat transfer, aeroelasticity.

Principal investigator of funded research by ESA (European Space Agency) and Belgian governments:

Hermes European Space Shuttle Program (2 projects): 1986-1989, Computation of hypersonic flows using unstructured meshes, Accuracy of flow solvers using structured or unstructured meshes (principal contractor Dassault),
ESA-GSTP: 1989-1990, Parallel computing for aerothermal applications
ESA-TRP: 2000-2005, ESA Advanced Reentry Demonstrator Post Flight Analysis (ARD, principal contractor Aerospatiale)
ESA PRODEX6: 2001-2004, The Solar Drivers of Space Weather I,
ESA PRODEX8: 2005-2007, The Solar Drivers of Space Weather II
Many ESA GSTP and TRP projects at VKI on aerothermodynamics: 2000-2011, responsible for the simulation part of the project
SBO MUTECH: 2005-2009, Novel multiscale approach to transort phenomena in electrochemical processes
SBO CAPRICORN: 2006-2010, Simulation and design tools towards the reduction of aerodynamic noise in confined flows.
FWO PROJECT with KULeuven: 1998-2002, Multidimensional upwinding and parallel implicit solvers for Magnetohydrodynamic flow problems, project G.0344.98
FWO PROJECT with VUB: 2005-2008, Design and implementation of intelligent solution strategies for the numerical simulation of electrochemical reactors.
FWO PROJECT with KULeuven: 2011-2014, Solar coronal mass ejections: innovative multi-component plasma models
GOA KULeuven: 2004-2008, Multi-disciplinary Research on the Solar Astrophysics

Participation in European research projects:

ASTAR (Nuclear Engineering Program): 2001-2003, Advanced 3D Two-phase flow simulation tool for reactor safety
NUMODION (Material Sciences Program): 1995-1999, Development and evaluation of methods for the prediction of current density and layer thickness distribution in electrochemical systems
DESINER (Material Sciences Program): 1999-2002, Development and evaluation of industrial electrochemical reactors
IDEMAS (Aeronautics Program, coordinator): 1997-2000 Industrial Demonstration of accurate and efficient Multidimensional upwind and multigrid Algorithms for aerodynamic Simulation on unstructured grids
AMIF (European Science Foundation ESF program): 1998-2001, Applied Mathematics for Industrial Flow Problems (AMIF)
EUA4X (EU Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses project): 2005-2008, A European Atelier for Engineering and Computational Sciences
SPECTRUM (Material Sciences Program): 2001-2005, Superprecision electrochem-ical machining
AMeGOS (Informatics Program ESPRIT): 1998-2003: Automatic Mesh Generation and Optimisation for Industrial Flow Simulations
ADIGMA (Aeronautics Program): 2006-2009 (FP6), Adaptive Higher-Order Variational Methods for Aerodynamic Applications in Industry
VALIANT (Aeronautics Program, PI J. Anthoine): 2009-2012, VALidation and Improvement of Airframe Noise prediction Tools started june 2009
IDIHOM (Aeronautics Program): 2010-2012, Industrialisation of High-Order Methods – A Top-Down Approach
GRAIN (Aeronautics program): 2010-2012, GReener Aeronautics International Networking
GRAIN2 (Aeronautics program): 2013-2015, GReener Aeronautics International Networking
EM-EASED: Erasmus Mundus project action2 strand 2 (2013-2017)

Publications

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