Gertjan Glabeke, Engineer at VKI, won the student award for best poster during the Europes premier wind energy event (EWEA 2012) held in April 2012 in Copenhagen.
The wind industry community from across the globe met for four days of business and networking at Europe's premier wind energy event at Copenhagen's Bella Center.
The poster and paper of G. Glabeke were related to his final year thesis on the "influence of wind turbine induced turbulence on ultralight aircraft, a CFD analysis".
Delphine Laboureur and Davide Masutti, Ph.D. students, has been attributed the 2012 Best PhD Presentation Prize awarded by the von Karman Institute's faculty during the third Symposium on Doctoral Research held in March 2012.
Delphine Laboureur was awarded for her work entitled "Experimental characterization and modeling of hazards, BLEVE and Boilover: Small scale Boilover experiments" and Davide Masutti for his work entitled "Natural and Induced Transition on a 7deg Half-Cone at Mach 6".
The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics has created a common laboratory with Cetim (a technological institute specialised in mechanics) since December 2011. Its name: Ledith (Laboratoire des écoulements diphasiques et technologies hydrauliques, or Two-phase flow and hydraulic technology laboratory).
Thierry Magin, assistant professor in the Aeronautics and Aerospace department, has been invited as J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellow to collaborate with Prof. Irene Gamba at ICES at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at the University of Texas at Austin.
Thierry Magin, assistant professor in the Aeronautics and Aerospace department, has been invited for two weeks as J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellow to collaborate with Prof. Irene Gamba at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at the University of Texas at Austin.
The program's foremost purpose is to bring in outstanding researchers and scholars to the University of Texas to collaborate with ICES faculty, researchers, and students on advanced research in computational engineering, mathematics, and sciences. The program also hosts internationally renowned specialists who present lectures on new developments while enhancing the stature and visibility of the program.
http://www.ices.utexas.edu/programs/visitors/
Dr. Magin and graduate student Alessandro Munafó are collaborating with Dr. Gamba on the development of a deterministic Boltzmann solver for atmospheric entry flows.
Prof. Magin will present two lectures during his stay at UT Austin:
Guerric de Crombrugghe and Laurent Michiels have been attributed the 2011 Wallonie Espace Award for their master thesis entitled "Preliminary design and stability analysis of a de-orbiting system for CubeSats"