The last “iMMCminar” for this academic year is scheduled. It will be given by Prof. Karen Mulleners (Unsteady flow diagnostics laboratory, EPFL) on Monday, July 7, 2025, at 15:00. Nature is full of thin, flexible objects that bend, flutter, or flap in the wind or the water such as leaves of trees and bushes, insect wings, and fish fins.

PhD Defense : The Belgian Macroseismic Database: Creation, Validation, and its Implications for Engineering Seismology by Ben NEEFS For the average citizen in Belgium, earthquakes are perceived as distant events, unlikely to ever affect their daily lives or warrant concern. This perception is supported by the relative absence of significant seismic activity in Belgium over the past 30 years.

With the transition to intermittent renewable energies, the need for energy storage is expected to grow significantly. Moreover, the technologies required for this transition will lead to a substantial rise in demand for strategic materials, making their rational and optimal use essential. It is therefore crucial to develop various storage technologies, each tailored to meet specific needs.

The biomass derivatives, including gas obtained from agricultural residues, are potential alternatives to power production in rural areas. Thus, gas can be utilized as the primary fuel in a diesel engine operating in dual fuel mode to generate electricity.

Will we still need fuels in a sustainable society? If so, for what applications, what kind of fuels and how can we produce them sustainably? Will it be hydrogen? What is the actual environmental impact of biofuels, and what about those ‘e-fuels’? Or will everything eventually become electric anyway? Prof.

Les inondations, parmi les désastres naturels les plus fréquents et dévastateurs, causent de lourds dégâts, souvent aggravés par une gestion préventive déficiente. En Haïti, les zones exposées aux inondations sont particulièrement vulnérables. Ce travail propose une solution pour la gestion préventive des risques d’inondation en utilisant la photogrammétrie par drone.

Gradient-based optimization is a powerful tool for advancing engineering applications. Its success relies on three key ingredients: accurate simulation models, efficient gradient calculations, and carefully chosen optimization methods. In this seminar, I will demonstrate how I developed fast, physics-based CFD models for nuclear fusion that are now being used for the desig

Given the environmental challenges related to the construction sector which is one of the most impacting sectors in terms of energy demand, CO2 emissions, natural resources consumption and waste production, a new class of circular waste-based materials for construction applications is developed.