Development of high order immersed interface techniques for topological optimisation, additive manufacturing and complex geometry problems in general.
Supervisors: K. Hillewaert & V. Terrapon
Development of wall models based on neural networks trained with high resolution DNS and LES data
Supervisors: K. Hillewaert, G. Winckelmans (UCLouvain)
Collaborations: Cenaero, SafranTech
Development of shock capturing strategies for the high-order discontinuous Galerkin method applied to the scale-resolved simulation of turbulent flows.
Supervisors: K. Hillewaert & V. Terrapon
Experimental and numerical study of the sensitivity of the flow in turbomachinery passages to the variation of turbulence length scales.
Supervisors: K. Hillewaert, S. Lavagnoli (VKI)
Detailed experimental studies of the purge/leakage flows in fast low-pressure turbine cascades.
Supervisors: K. Hillewaert, S. Lavagnoli (VKI)
Collaboration: Spleen project, Cenaero
Master student: Mohammed Khateeb
Study of the effect of purge and leakage flows in High-Speed Low Pressure Turbine by experiments in a representative rotating stage wind tunnel.
Supervisor: K. Hillewaert, S. Lavagnoli (VKI)
Collaboration: Spleen project
Numerical and experimental study of turbomachinery at the component level, including the impact of distortion.
Supervisors: K. Hillewaert, F. Fontaneto (VKI)
Development and comparison of diffuse and immersed boundary approaches for the free surface of a fusion pool using the discontinuous Galerkin solver Argo.
Supervisors: K. Hillewaert & J-P. Ponthot
Collaboration: Cenaero
Development of a high resolution simulation strategy for plasma sheaths and inductively coupled plasma
Supervisors: K. Hillewaert, T. Magin (VKI), A. Alvarez-Laguna (Inst. Polytech. de Paris), G. May (VKI)
Co-supervisor: Prof. E. Bechet
Quantification of the impact of manufacturing geometric uncertainties and tolerances on the global performance of low-pressure compressors and development of through-flow models. Walloon region project MARIETTA.
