There is increasing interest for the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to the study of flows in the lower part of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). The simulation of atmospheric flows, often over complex domain, is necessary for the estimation of wind loads on buildings, wind turbine siting, pollutant dispersion and pedestrian wind comfort.
The present hybrid Lecture Series (on-site and online) offers a wide overview of the state-of-the-art, with applications ranging from microclimate, wind engineering, to mesoscale, meteorology, and their coupling. Reynolds-Averaged (RANS) and Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) approaches are discussed and their respective capabilities at meso- and microscales are evaluated, with focus on realistic inflow, wall modelling, uncertainty quantification and validation. Emerging trends such as the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) for acceleration of high-fidelity simulations are also addressed, including a tutorial of the open-source GPU-resident FastEddy code.
The lecture series director is prof. Wim Munters from the von Karman Institute.
Monday 2 June 2025
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome address
09:15 - 10:45 Introduction to the simulation of atmospheric flows
Prof. Bert Blocken, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom & KU Leuven, Belgium
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45 Introduction to the simulation of atmospheric flows
Prof. Bert Blocken, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom & KU Leuven, Belgium
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15 Turbulence model formulation and dispersion modelling for the CFD simulation of flows around obstacles and on complex terrains
Prof. Alessandro Parente, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00 Turbulence model formulation and dispersion modelling for the CFD simulation of flows around obstacles and on complex terrains
Prof. Alessandro Parente, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
17:00 Reception in VKI canteen
Tuesday 3 June 2025
09:00 - 10:30 Introduction to Numerical Weather Forecasting: from global scale to microscale
Dr. Orkun Temel, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Belgium
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Mesoscale modelling of atmospheric flows with applications to offshore wind energy
Prof. Wim Munters, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15 Modelling wind energy in the atmospheric boundary layer
Prof. Michael F. Howland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
15:15 -15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00 Introduction to uncertainty quantification for atmospheric boundary layer flows
Prof. Catherine Gorlé, Stanford University, USA
Wednesday 4 June 2025
09:00 - 10:30 Bayesian uncertainty quantification for atmospheric flow and wind energy applications
Prof. Michael F. Howland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Uncertainty Quantification for environmental wind engineering applications
Prof. Catherine Gorlé, Stanford University, USA
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15 Predicting wind loading on buildings
Prof. Catherine Gorlé, Stanford University, USA
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00 Large-eddy simulation of atmospheric flows
Dr. Branko Kosovic, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Thursday 5 June 2025
09:00 - 10:30 Large-eddy simulation of atmospheric flows (cont’d)
Dr. Branko Kosovic, Johns Hopkins University, USA
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Large-eddy simulation of atmospheric flows (cont’d)
Dr. Branko Kosovic, Johns Hopkins University, USA
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15 Multiscale modelling of the atmospheric boundary layer: coupling challenge and the cell perturbation method
Dr. Domingo Munoz-Esparza, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30 Visit of the VKI Labs
16:30 - 17:00 Tutorial on FastEddy GPU Large-eddy simulation code
Dr. Domingo Munoz-Esparza, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
Friday 6 June 2025
09:00 - 10:30 Multiscale modelling of the atmospheric boundary layer: from weather to resolved turbulence eddies with accelerated GPU LES
Dr. Domingo Munoz-Esparza, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Mesoscale to microscale wind farm flow modelling and evaluation
Dr. Javier Sanz Rodrigo, Siemens Gamesa, Spain
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15 Mesoscale to microscale wind farm flow modelling and evaluation
Dr. Javier Sanz Rodrigo, Siemens Gamesa, Spain
15:15 End of the Lecture Series
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