The purpose of this Lecture Series is to offer a full overview of the present development and the potential of the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulent flows. The first part of the course will introduce and discuss fundamental principles, present state-of-the-art applications. The specific numerical problems related to the implementation of LES will be also presented.

The second part will present applications of these approaches to various engineering fields of wide interest.

The course will be concluded discussing the possible developments of LES and Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) which represents the most promising technique to extend the usefulness of LES for high Reynolds-number flows.

The course will be delivered by internationally recognized experts. Its content is addressed both to researchers interested in the fundamental simulation of turbulence and engineers wanting to apply the LES technique or LES solvers to the accurate simulations of turbulent flows.

The lecture series director is Professor Ugo Piomelli from Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. The local organizer is Professor Jeroen van Beeck from the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium.

Programme (UTC+2)

Monday 2 May 2022

08:00 Registration

08:30 Welcome Address and Course Introduction

09:00 Large Eddy and Direct Simulation of Turbulent Flows 
Prof. Ugo Piomelli, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

10:15 Coffee Break

10:45 Large Eddy and Direct Simulation of Turbulent Flows (cont’d)
Prof. Ugo Piomelli, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

12:00 Lunch

14:30 Questions and Answers

15:00 Large Eddy and Direct Simulation of Turbulent Flows (cont’d)
Prof. Ugo Piomelli, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

16:15 Coffee Break

16:45 Large Eddy and Direct Simulation of Turbulent Flows (cont’d)
Prof. Ugo Piomelli, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

18:00 Reception

Tuesday 3 May 2022

09:00 Large Eddy and Direct Simulation of Turbulent Flows 
Prof. Ugo Piomelli, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

10:15 Coffee Break

10:45 Large Eddy and Direct Simulation of Turbulent Flows (cont’d)
Prof. Ugo Piomelli, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

12:00 Lunch

14:30 Questions and Answers

15:00 Detached Eddy Simulation
Prof. Ugo Piomelli, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

16:15 Coffee Break

16:45 Detached Eddy Simulation (cont’d)
Prof. Ugo Piomelli, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

18:00 End of day

Wednesday 4 May 2022

09:00 Numerical Implementation of Large-Eddy Simulation
Prof. Pierre Sagaut, Laboratoire de Mécanique Modélisation et Procédés Propres, UMR CNRS 7340, Aix-Marseille Université, France

10:15 Coffee Break

10:45 Numerical Implementation of Large-Eddy Simulation (cont’d)
Prof. Pierre Sagaut, Laboratoire de Mécanique Modélisation et Procédés Propres, UMR CNRS 7340, Aix-Marseille Université, France

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Immersed Boundary Technique for Large Eddy Simulation
Prof. Roberto Verzicco, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy 

15:15 Coffee Break

15:45 Immersed Boundary Technique for Large Eddy Simulation (cont’d)
Prof. Roberto Verzicco, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy 

17:00 End of day

Thursday 5 May 2022

09:00 Applications of Large Eddy Simulation to Atmospheric Flows and Wind Engineering
Prof. Johan Meyers, KULeuven, Belgium

10:15 Coffee Break 

10:45 Applications of Large Eddy Simulation to Atmospheric Flows and Wind Engineering (cont'd)
Prof. Johan Meyers, KULeuven, Belgium

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Applications of Large Eddy Simulation and Direct Simulation to Biological Flows
Prof. Elias Balaras, The George Washington University, USA 

15:15 Coffee Break

15:45 Applications of Large Eddy Simulation and Direct Simulation to Biological Flows (cont'd)
Prof. Elias Balaras, The George Washington University, USA

17:00 End of day