Eight PhD fellows from VKI have been recently awarded the prestigious grant FRIA

Written on 14 December 2015.

The FRIA funds (CNRS) are awarded specifically for the completion of a PhD thesis. They are given to allow researchers to pursue their doctoral studies through to the defence of thesis stage.

Fria 1^st Grant

• Barros Dias Bruno: Simulation of the Atmospheric Entry of Meteors with Application to Radio Detection
• Miro Miro Fernando: Numerical investigation of hypersonic boundary-layer stability with ablation phenomena

Fria 1^st Grant - second year

• Temel Orkun: Multiscale modeling of atmospheric dispersion

Fria 2^nd Grant

• Alfonso Mendez Miguel: Dynamics of gas jet impingement on vertical falling liquid films
• Bellemans Aurélie: SPARK - simplified plasma models based on reduced kinetics
• Clinckemaillie Julien: Analysis and consequences of the separation / transition mechanism of the flow on a modern low pressure gas turbine airfoil
• De Cock Nicolas: Splash plate nozzle design optimization
• Simonini Alessia: Sloshing dynamics in partially filled cylinder subjected to horizontal sinusoidal excitations