We are pleased to announce that doctoral fellowships have been granted by the board of trustees of the FRIA on 5th of December 2019 to 5 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 candidates who obtained the FRIA 1st grants are:
- Matilde Fiore (supervisors Prof. Jeroen van Beeck and Dr. Lilla Koloszár & UCL supervisor: Prof. Yann Bartosiewicz): Thermal turbulence modelling of low Prandtl number flows via data analysis and machine learning
- David Henneaux (VKI supervisor Prof. Thierry Magin & UCL supervisor: Prof. Philippe Prof. Chatelain): Development of high-fidelity numerical methods for the simulation of the aerothermal ablation of space debris during atmospheric entry
- Fabio Pino (VKI supervisor Prof. Miguel Mendez & ULB supervisor Prof. Benoît Scheid): Feedback Control of Liquid Metal Coatings
- Riccardo Toracchio (VKI supervisor Prof. Fabrizio Fontaneto & ULG supervisor Prof. Koen Hillewaert): Performance and stability analysis of a highly-loaded low pressure compressor under distorted inflow conditions
- Luca Zampini (VKI supervisors Profs. Tom Verstraete and Sergio Lavagnoli & UMons Prof. Gregory Coussement): One-shot and Multigrid Acceleration for Industrial Shape Optimization