DisCoVor 2024
DisCoVor 2024

General programme 

The programme will be at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (ME), Mekelweg 2, Delft. 
The programme in pdf. 
 
Day 1 - April 16; Tuesday
08.30 - 09.00 Opening   Hall, ME
09.00 - 10.00 Session A, Chair: Gabriel Weymouth Biologically-inspired flows Lecture room A, ME
09.00 - 09.15 Trevor Dunt Vortex shedding structures and shedding frequency on seal whiskers of varying wavelength  
09.15 - 09.30 Ahmed K. Othman Coverts-inspired flow control devices: 2D vs 3D  
09.30 - 09.45 Xudong Zheng Two degree-of-freedom vortex induced vibration of an undulatory seal whisker at different angles of attack  
09.45 - 10.00 Nathan Widdup Bio-Inspired Flight for Martian Exploration  
10.00 - 10.40 Coffee break   Hall, ME
10.40 - 12.30 Session B, Chair Keith Moored Swimming and flying animals Lecture room A, ME
10.40 - 11.00 Invited: Melissa Green Propulsive performance and flow field structure around a two degree-of-freedom fish-like platform  
11.00 - 11.15 Rajat Mittal Hydrodynamic Performance and Scaling Laws of Wave-Induced Flapping Foil Propulsion Systems  
11.15 - 11.30 Shayan Heydari Wake-Body Interaction and Sustained Oscillation of Flexible Cantilevers without Vortex Shedding  
11.30 - 11.45 Amin Mivehchi Effect of Phase Synchrony on the Self-Origination of Two Swimmers in a Side-by-Side Arrangement  
11.45 - 12.00 Arvind Thirunavukkarasu Comparative analysis of dimensionality reduction techniques for flapping wing dynamics  
12.00 - 12.15 Philippe Chatelain Bird formation flight: vortex dynamics, flight control and energy savings  
12.15 - 12.30 Ratnesh K. Shukla Dynamics of self-propelling and thrust-generating pitching foils  
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch   Hall, ME
13.30 - 15.00  Lab tour    TU Delft Campus
15.30 - 16.30  Delft walking tour to reception   Delft City Centre
16.30 - 18.30  Poster Session #1 and Reception   de Waag, Delft
  Dinner (on your own)    
       
Day 2 - April 17; Wednesday
08.30 - 10.00 Session C, Chair Jerry Westerweel Impulsive & rotational motions Lecture room A, ME
08.30 - 08.45 Gauthier Bertrand About the propulsive performance of a pitching airfoil  
08.45 - 09.00 Chandan Bose Effect of combined leading- and trailing-edge morphing on the wake dynamics of a flapping aerofoil   
09.00 - 09.15 Vrishank Raghav Scaling of aerodynamic loads on a rotating and pitching flat plate  
09.15 - 09.30 Dylan Caverly Vortex development behind polygonal disks  
09.30 - 09.45 Jesse Reijtenbagh Predicting drag force during non-constant accelerations  
09.45 - 10.00 Youri Marchal Investigation on an impulsively or fast started NACA0010 airfoil at Re = 5000 and at various angles of attack  
10.00 - 10.40 Coffee break   Hall, ME
10.40 - 12.30 Session D, Chair Rajat Mittal Vortex structures Lecture room A, ME
10.40 - 11.00 Invited: Hao Liu Vortices and Forces in Insect Flight: A Review  
11.00 - 11.15 Mrudhula Baskaran On vortex rings and Vogel exponents  
11.15 - 11.30 Sarah Morris Influence of passive flexibility on vortex ring generation  
11.30 - 11.45 Pedro Hernandez Gelado Topological feature identification of the leading edge vortex using machine learning  
11.45 - 12.00 Mr. Shivakumar Kandre Evolution of Vortex Induced Thermal Plumes  
12.00 - 12.15 Luuk Hendriksen 3D vortex organization around a surface-mounted cube by 3D-LPT  
12.15 - 12.30 Moira Barnes Persistence of large-scale vortex formation in shear-thinning pulsatile flows  
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch   Hall, ME
13.30 - 14.30 Bus to Keukenhof    
14.30 - 17.00 Keukenhof  only for registered attendees Keukenhof, Lisse
17.00 - 18.00 Bus back to TU Delft campus    
  Dinner (on your own)    
       
Day 3 - April 18; Thursday
08.30 - 10.00 Session E, Chair: Karen Mulleners Wind turbines Lecture room A, ME
08.30 - 08.45 Mano Grunwald Tip vortex evolution under sheared inflow conditions in the context of wind turbines  
08.45 - 09.00 Jonas Gutknecht The vortex dynamics in the wake of a wind turbine controlled with the helix approach  
09.00 - 09.15 Benjamin Irwin Effects of Trailing-Edge Camber on Cyclorotor Performance  
09.15 - 09.30 Eric Handy-Cardenas Optimal kinematics and Vortex-foil interactions of an oscillating hydrofoil tandem turbine array  
09.30 - 09.45 Nathaniel Wei Vortex dynamics in the wake of a periodically surging turbine  
09.45 - 10.00 Pere Valls Badia Dynamic stall on airfoils with leading-edge tubercles  
10.00 - 10.40 Coffee break   Hall, ME
10.40 - 12.30 Session F, Chair Jeff Eldredge Wakes and turbulence Lecture room A, ME
10.40 - 11.00 Invited: Wei Hou Fast three-dimensional stability and resolvent analysis for external flows about spanwise geometries  
11.00 - 11.15 Bharathram Ganapathisubramani Estimation of rotor wake-wing interaction noise using Stereoscopic PIV  
11.15 - 11.30 Jason M. Dahl Effects of small motion perturbations on the wake of a circular cylinder undergoing forced 2-DOF motions  
11.30 - 11.45 John Kurelek Manipulating Vortex Development in a Laminar Separation Bubble using Spanwise Modulated Disturbances  
11.45 - 12.00 Tea Vojkovic Model-Based Closed-Loop Control of Cylinder Wake  
12.00 - 12.15 Louis Cattafesta On Low-Frequency Unsteadiness of Three-Dimensional Turbulent Separation Bubbles  
12.15 - 12.30 Connor Toppings Interaction of Freestream Turbulence with a Lifting Surface at Low Reynolds Numbers  
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch   Hall, ME
15.00 - 15.30 Bus to Scheveningen Beach

Bus schedule: 

1st bus event venue 15:00/ Phoenixstraat15:15

2nd bus event venue 15:15/ Phoenixstraat15:30

  
15.30 - 17.00 Free time    
17.00 - 18.30 Poster Session #2   Restaurant Werelds, Scheveningen
18.00 - 18.30 Bus to Scheveningen Beach from Phoenixstraat Third bus  
18.30 - 21.00 Workshop Dinner @ the beach    Restaurant Werelds, Scheveningen
21.00

Bus to Delft 

    
       
Day 4 - April 19; Friday
08.30 - 10.00 Session G, Chair Barath Gusts Lecture room A, ME
08.30 - 08.45 Jeff Eldredge Deep reinforcement learning of pitch control in low Reynolds number gust interactions  
08.45 - 09.00 Kunihiko Taira Discrete gust encounters through the lens of persistent homology  
09.00 - 09.15 Oksan Cetiner Separation Control Using Plasma Actuation in Vortex Gust Encounters  
09.15 - 09.30 Samik Bhattacharya Mitigating the Effect of Gust with Dynamic Morphing  
09.30 - 09.45 Paras Vadher Unsteady aerodynamics of vortex gust generation and interaction with wing  
09.45 - 10.00 Antonios Gementzopoulos Unsteady lift estimation using distributed pressure sensing in the presence of uncertainty  
10.00 - 10.40 Coffee break   Hall, ME
10.40 - 12.30 Session H, Chair: Abel-John Buchner Fluid Structure Interactions Lecture room A, ME
10.40 - 11.00 Gabriel Weymouth Fast Fluid-Structure Interaction in Minimal Domains with Far-Field Boundary Conditions  
11.00 - 11.15 Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi The influence of fluid elasticity on the vortices shed in the wake of an oscillating cylinder  
11.15 - 11.30 Antoine Myskiw Fluid-structure interactions on a 3D bluff body pendulum at high Reynolds number  
11.30 - 11.45 Chiranjeevi Sadana Elastically-mounted cylinder with flexible splitter plate: Wake vortices and structural response  
11.45 - 12.00 Doudou Huang On the flow around porous disks at an incidence  
12.00 - 12.15 Wim M. van Rees Numerical analysis of the free-stream flow through a porous barrier  
12.15 - 12.30 Conclude   Lecture room A, ME
 
Poster Session 1: Tuesday 16 April
Florian Bouard Do bending rules in nature favor propulsion efficiency ?
Leo Micklem Energy-efficient soft robotic fish thrust enhancement using time varying stiffness modulation
Ramiro Godoy-Diana Measuring how elastic deformation determines the aerodynamic force production of a flapping wing
Rajanya Chatterjee Effect of spatio-temporal loading on the harvested energy from a flexible flapper under VIV
Jennifer Franck The Normalisation Conundrum for Unsteady Loads on Cross-Flow Turbines
Alexander Cavanagh Insights from force partitioning on vortex dynamics around plunging swept wings
Tye J. Dougherty  Searching for the textbook of unsteady aerodynamic events using a random gust generator
Claudia Brunner The time scales of dynamic stall at high Reynolds numbers
Sahar Rezapour Effect of non-linear angle of attack variation on dynamic stall onset
Victoria Malarczyk Effect of Inflow Turbulence on Stall Behavior of Moderately Thick Airfoils at High Reynolds number
Bingnan Zhou A light-controlled vortex 
Pierre Balty A multiresolution Vortex Particle-Mesh method
Marin Lauber Falling flexible bodies simulated with splines in minimal domains
   
Poster Session 2: Thursday 18 April
Mariana Costa Cavitation onset in counter-rotating vortices from diverging disks
Nicola Savelli Force reconstruction from PIV for an accelerating plate
Diane Komaroff Jet creation at the tip of a submerged plate forced by waves
Lyke van Dalen Vortex behaviour in an instationary rotating flow
Dirk de Boer Data driven experimental investigation into wing-wake interaction
Tea Vojkovic Model-Based Closed-Loop Control of Cylinder Wake
Marion Coquelet Wind farm flow control: on the impact of the Helix control using a Vortex Particle-Mesh method
Jovan Nedić Wake structure of optimally controlled vertical axis turbines
Alexander Gehrke Drag forces and unsteady wakes behind a poro-elastic membrane disk
Rajeev Jaiman Wake interference effects on flapping dynamics of an elastic inverted foil
Elizabeth Torres De Jesús Cylinder wake behavior based on conditional analyses based on large-scale coherent structures 
Akhileshwar Borra Intrinsic phased-based POD
Octavian Soare The tip vortex behaviour of a pitching wing with leading edge tubercles
Abel-John Buchner Measuring the wing beat kinematics of free-flying Aedes aegypti