News

Post date:  November 10, 2023

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Hongru  Li  just joined our group as post-doctoral fellow. His research involves thenumerical study of turbulent thermal convection with boiling. Welcome Hongru!

Post date: October 10, 2023

We are pleased to announce that Mr. Maged Faragalla  just joined our group as PhD researcher. His research involves the modeling  and simulations of thermal frontal polymerization. Welcome Maged!

Post date: September 1, 2023

Mathieu Calero has successfully defended his PhD thesis on turbulent flow electrification. Congratulations Dr. Calero!!

Post date: February 3, 2023

We are pleased to announce that our group  participates in a new  research project on frontal polymerization, in collaboration with groups from  the Free Universities of Brussels (VUB abd ULB)  Louisiana State University (LSU).

Post date: October 3, 2022

We are pleased to announce the publication of the new book of M. Papalexandris Gas Dynamics  by the Presses Universitaires Louvain.

Post date: October 3, 2022

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lise Ceresiat just joined our group as  post-doctoral fellow. Her research is in modeling and simulation of turbulent natural convection.

Post date: October 3, 2022

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lise Ceresiat just joined our group as  post-doctoral fellow. Her research is in modeling and simulation of turbulent natural convection.

Post date: September 24, 2022

We are pleased to announce that our group participates in SEDIMARE, a research project funded by the European Commission under the Marie-Curie Actions of the Horizon Framework Programme. This project concerns sediment transport and morphodynamics in marine and coastal environments. Stay tuned for new PhD scholarships!! 

Post date: April 02, 2022

We are pleased to inform you that our member Dr. Constantin Sula has joined the  R&D department of Atlas Copco in Belgium as a technology engineer and fluid mechanics expert.  Congratulations Constantin!!

Post date: March 23, 2022

Congratulations to Mr. Constantin Sula for the successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis! The title of his thesis is "Modelling and large eddy simulations of biodiesel  spray combustion"

Post date: June 1,  2021

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Julien Carlier (PhD ENSTA/Univ. Paris-Saclay)  just joined our group as a postdoctoral scholar. His research will involve turbulent convection with intense phase change. Welcome Julien!

Post date: April 30,  2021

Our project on spent-fuel pools SFP-LOCA has been highlighted in a featured article that is available on the website of UCLouvain, https://uclouvain.be/en/research/news/nuclear-spent-fuel-pools-beware-of-evaporation.html

Post date: February 21, 2021

We are pleased to inform you that our member Dr. William Andrew Hay has joined the Institute of Radio-protection and Nuclear Safety of France (IRSN) as a research engineer.  Congratulations William!!!

Post date: February 26, 2021

Congratulations to Mr. Wiliam  Andrew Hay for the successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis! The title of his thesis is "Evaporation-driven turbulent convection in water pools heated from below"

Post date:  February 1, 2021

Our paper, "Turbulent thermal convection driven by free-surface evaporation in cuboidal domains of different aspect ratios",  has been selected as a Featured Article in the January  2021 volume of Physics of Fluids.  For more information, please check https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0035277

Post date: Aug 16, 2020 11:52:33 AM

We are pleased to announce the publication of the book Combustion and Fuels of M. Papalexandris by the Presses Universitaires de Louvain. 

Post date: Aug 16, 2020 11:51:42 AM

We are pleased to announce that our group has been awarded an Energy Transition Fund from the  Belgian Ministry of Energy. The new project concerns the study of the flow and thermal phenomena that occur during a Loss of Cooling Accident in Spent Fuel Pools. 

Post date: Aug 16, 2020 11:19:35 AM

In collaboration with the group of Analysis and Simulation in Explosion Protection of the German Metrology institute, we are developing computational tools  to simulate powder and fluid flow operations in process industries focusing on phenomena that represent a hazard to operational safety.  Starting 2019, the computational tool pafix for the simulation of particle-laden flows and powder electrification is available as freeware

For a free download please visit  https://www.ptb.de/cms/en/ptb/fachabteilungen/abt3/fb-35/ag-351/software.html

Post date: Jul 1, 2019 4:19:16 PM

We are pleased to announce that Mr. Mathieu Calero just joined our group as a PhD researcher. His research is in computational electrohydrodynamics and turbulent flow electrification.

Post date: Apr 27, 2019 5:41:35 AM

Congratulations to Mr. Brieux Delsaute for the successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis! The title of his thesis is "Méthode de Petrov-Galerking conforme pour problèmes d'advection-diffusion à haut nombre de Péclet" (Conformal Petrov-Galerkin methods for advection-diffusion problems at high Péclet numbers).

Post date: Dec 13, 2018 4:50:39 PM

We are pleased to inform you that in June 2018 our member Dr. Davide Monsorno joined Roechling Automotive as a thermo-fluid-dynamics expert. 

Congratulations Davide!!!

Post date: Feb 7, 2018 1:37:49 PM

It is our pleasure to announce that our member, Dr. Mike Georgiou has recently joined Atlas Copco as a Technology Engineer and Fluid Mechanics expert. Congratulations Mike!!!

Post date: Feb 7, 2018 1:37:06 PM

Congratulations to Mr. Davide Monsorno for the successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis! The title of his thesis is "Modelling and simulation of fluid-saturated granular materials with application to sedimentation flows"

Post date: Dec 17, 2017 4:09:58 PM

Congratulations to Mr. Michail Georgiou for the successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis! The title of his thesis is 'Turbulent heat transfer in T-junctions."

Post date: Jul 1, 2017 1:52:10 PM

We are pleased to announce that Mr. Constantin Sula just joined our group as a PhD student. His research area is mathematical modeling and simulation of spray combustion processes. Welcome Constantin!

Post date: Jul 1, 2017 1:51:27 PM

It is our pleasure to announce that our member and collaborator, Dr. Holger Grosshans has joined the German Federal Institute of Metrology (PTB) as group leader. Congratulations Holger and we are looking forward to the continuation of our fruitful collaboration.

Post date: Apr 1, 2017 7:26:13 AM

On Friday May 05 Prof. M. Papalexandris will give an invited seminar at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. The title of his talk is: "“Thermomechanical modeling of solid-fluid mixtures: fundamentals and some new ideas"

Post date: Dec 10, 2016 12:11:11 PM

We are pleased to announce that our group participates in a new international project under the ERA-NET, Horizon2020 programme of the European Commission. This new project, called BioCFD, is a collaboration between European and Indian institutions and concerns research for higher efficiencies and lower emissions of Indian-origin biofuel combustion.

Post date: Dec 10, 2016 12:06:44 PM

We are pleased to announce that Mr. William Hay just joined our group as a PhD student. His research area is nuclear thermal hydraulics. Welcome Will!

Post date: Sep 10, 2016 7:34:37 AM

On Thursday November 17 Prof. M. Papalexandris gave an invited seminar at the University of Notre Dame. The title of his talk was "solid-fluid mixtures: fundamentals and emerging ideas for their continuum modeling",

Post date: May 18, 2016 11:04:05 AM

Our team participates in the collaborative MOOC in Thermodynamics of the network RESCIF and organized by EPFL. This course is ready to be launched and is available on the platform Coursera. More information are available on here

Notre équipe participe à un MOOC collaboratif en Thermodymanique sur le réseau RESCUF et organisé par l'EPFL. Ce cours est prêt à être lancé et est disponible sur la platforme Coursera. Plus d'informations sont disponibles ici.  

Post date: Jan 31, 2016 3:48:43 PM

It is our pleasure to announce that the group's alumnus Dr. Panagiotis Dimitrios Antoniadis has joined Far Field Technologies, an SMC company. Congratulations to Panagiotis!!! 

Post date: Jan 31, 2016 3:45:35 PM

On Friday, 01/29/2016, Miltiadis Papalexandris gave an invited seminar at the German Federal Institute of Metrology, Braunschweig, Germany, on the modelling and numerical simulation for reacting and non-reacting multiphase flows.

Post date: Dec 24, 2015 5:27:52 PM

It is our pleasure to announce that the group's alumnus Dr. Christos Varsakelis has joined the SABIC corporation. Congratulations  Christos!!! 

Post date: Oct 31, 2015 1:00:19 PM

Dr. C. Varsakelis gave an invited presentation at the conference CSME-2015 "Contaminated Site Management in Europe" that will be held in Brussels, Belgium during October 20-22 2015. The title of his presentation is: "Sediment transport: from academic models to industrial tools”

Post date: Apr 7, 2014 6:41:46 PM

Professor M.V.Papalexandris was one of the keynote speakers in the International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, HTFF'14, that was held in Prague on August 11 - 12, 2014.

For a copy of the slides of his presentation, you can contact us directly.

Post date: Apr 7, 2014 6:32:24 PM

Our research team participates in the international Training Network (ITN) SEDITRANS, focussing on research on sediment transport. Funding is provided by the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission.

Post date: October 3, 2022

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lise Ceresiat just joined our group as  post-doctoral fellow. Her research is in modeling and simulation of turbulent natural convection.

Post date: May 2, 2023

We are pleased to announce that Mr. Evangelos Petridis  just joined our group as PhD researcher. His research involves theoretical and numerical analysis of two-phase granular mixtures. Welcome Evangelos!