NUM-SCARS workshop
22nd–23rd January, 2026
CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| Time |
Thursday, January 22nd |
Time |
Friday, January 23rd |
| 9:00–9:45 |
Registration |
9:00–10:20 |
Frontiers in Large-Eddy Simulation
1 keynote (40 minutes incl. Q&A)
2 talks (20 minutes incl. Q&A)
|
| 9:45–10:00 |
Opening |
| 10:00–10:50 |
Opening lecture |
10:20–10:45 |
Coffee break |
| 10:50–11:20 |
Coffee break |
10:45–11:45 |
Open Tools and Benchmarking
3 talks (20 minutes incl. Q&A)
|
| 11:20–13:00 |
Advances in Numerical Methods for
Scale-Resolving Simulations
1 keynote (40 minutes incl. Q&A)
3 talks (20 minutes incl. Q&A)
|
| 11:45–12:45 |
Roundtable discussion on open-source / benchmarking |
| 13:00–14:00 |
Lunch |
12:45–14:00 |
Closing and Lunch |
| 14:00–15:40 |
Complex geometries and
Industrial Applications
1 keynote (40 minutes incl. Q&A)
3 talks (20 minutes incl. Q&A)
|
14:00–17:00 |
Roundtable discussion on SIG55
future directions, collaborative projects
and growth strategies
|
| 15:40–16:00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00–17:00 |
Roundtable discussion on future perspectives for CFD |
| 17:00–18:30 |
Poster session |
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Sessions details
Opening lecture
- Arthur Veldman – Supraconservative discretization methods for CFD – Keynote
Advances in Numerical Methods for Scale-Resolving Simulations
- Sergio Pirozzoli – Lessons learnt in developing compressible flow solvers – Keynote
- Artur Palha – Structure-preserving finite element methods
- Gennaro Coppola – Discrete conservation, entropy functions and induced means
- Francesco Capuano – Time matters: perspectives on time integration in CFD
Complex geometries and Industrial Applications
- Oriol Lehmkuhl – Towards high-order low-dissipation strategies for fast industrial-scale simulations – Keynote
- Xavi Trias - Conservative methods for multi-physics flows on complex geometries
- Alessandro Colombo - Entropy-stable modal DG for scale-resolving flow simulations
- Ed Komen – Some Considerations on DNS and LES in Complex Geometries
Frontiers in Large-Eddy Simulation
- Andrea Beck – Learning in the loop: Towards discretization-consistent LES closures – Keynote
- Benjamin Sanderse – Lessons learnt in learning stable closure models from data
- Roel Verstappen – Large-eddy simulation: a synthesis of filtering, modelling and discretization
Open Tools and Benchmarking
- Bernat Font – WaterLily.jl: How open source shaped a fast, backend-agnostic CFD solver
- Francesc Verdugo – GalerkinToolkit.jl: Towards a multi-platform finite element API with deep integration with the Julia package ecosystem
- Pedro Costa – Tooling up for extreme-scale simulations of turbulent flows
Roundtable discussion on open-source / benchmarking
Chair: Sylvain Laizet
Participants: Pedro Costa, Bernat Font, Francesc Verdugo
Roundtable discussion on future perspectives for CFD
Chair: Benjamin Sanderse
Participants: Andrea Beck, Oriol Lehmkuhl, Sergio Pirozzoli, Arthur Veldman