PhD Public Defense of Bernd Helber / VUB 14 January 2016 / 04:00 PM

Written on 04 January 2016.

The PhD public defense of Bernd Helber will take place on the 14th January 2016 at 4:00PM at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) in the "Promotiezaal" D.2.01 of VUB (Building D, 2nd floor, Campus Etterbeek: http://mech.vub.ac.be/avrg/img/EtterbeekCampus.jpg).

His PhD thesis is entitled "Material response characterization of low density ablators in atmospheric entry plasmas".

Ablation experiment of a carbon-phenolic composite in the VKI Plasmatron leading to decomposition and recession of the heat shield material

PhD Public Defense of Isil Sakraker / ULg 4 February 2016 / 01:00 PM

Written on 04 January 2016.

The PhD public defense of Isil Sakraker will take place on the 4^th February 2016 at 1:00PM at the Université Libre de Liège (ULg) at 1 pm in the auditorium 02, in the B37 building (Institut de Mathématiques) in the campus Liège Sart Tilman (http://www.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_1841523/en/b37-institut-de-mathematiques).

Her PhD thesis is entitled "Aerothermodynamics of Pre-Flight and In-Flight Testing Methodologies for Atmospheric Entry Probes".

QARMAN full scale testing at VKI Plasmatron

Seven IWT Doctoral Grants for Strategic Basic Research attributed to VKI PhD candidates

Written on 22 December 2015.

Seven IWT doctoral grants were awarded to seven VKI PHD candidates for the academic year 2015-2016.

The IWT awards fellowships to doctoral students allow them to work on their PhD at one of the Flemish universities. The subject of this thesis should fit within strategic basic research with an economic finality or be in line with one of the six strategic clusters of the Flemish Council for Science and Innovation (VRWI). An IWT doctoral (PhD) grant for strategic basic research is composed of two terms of two years. The research, however, can be conducted in a Flemish university college or a Belgian scientific institution, subject to the academic supervisor's agreement and the IWT's approval.

The magazine Science Connection of BELSPO published in its number of December an article about VKI

Written on 17 December 2015.

L’expertise en dynamique des fluides de l’Institut von Karman au service du projet MYRRHA
Science Connection n° 49 - Publication de décembre 2015 - janvier 2016 - BELSPO

De expertise in stromingsdynamica van het von Karman instituut ten dienste van het MYRRHA-project
Science Connection n° 49 - Publicatie van december 2015 - januari 2016 - BELSPO

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