Plenary Speakers
Luís Eça - University of Lisbon, Portugal
On the Challenges of Verification Exercises of Viscous Flow Simulations
Luís Eça is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the University of Lisbon. He received the M.S, Ph.D. and “Agregação” degrees from Technical University of Lisbon in 1987, 1993 and 2009 respectively. He has been working in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for the last 35 years in cooperation with the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN). The main topics of the research have been the simulation of high Reynolds number flows around complex geometries and Verification and Validation in CFD. In the last few years, RANS modelling of low Reynolds number flows and surface roughness effects have been addressed within the MARIN-IST cooperation.
Laura Mainini- Imperial College London, UK
Title: To be confirmed
Prof. Mainini is Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society. She serves with leadership roles on the AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee, the AIAA Digital Engineering Integration and Outreach Committee, and several international task groups. Dr. Mainini earned her BSc, MSc. and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, she received a Fulbright grant to conduct research at MIT during her doctoral studies. Prof. Mainini is passionate about developing solutions for the sustainable development of air transportation and space exploration, with focus on advanced computational and mathematical methods that permit to safely unlock novel designs.
Wim van Reese - Massachusetts (USA)
Analysis of flow past a porous net-like screen through high-fidelity simulations
Wim M. van Rees is Associate Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He is affiliated with the Center for Ocean Engineering. He received his BSc and MSc from Delft University of
Technology in Marine Techology, and his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2014. In 2015 he performed research as a postdoctoral
fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, and joined the MIT faculty in 2017. At MIT, he received Early Career awards from the Department of Energy in 2020, and from the Army Research Office in 2021.
Wim's main research interests are to apply advanced numerical simulations to solve bio-inspired forward and inverse
problems in fluids, solids, and fluid-structure interaction.