ERCOFTAC Autumn Festival and 20th Da Vinci Competition 2025, Darmstadt, Germany

**ERCOFTAC Autumn Festival 2025**
**and**
**20th Da Vinci Competition 2025**

**9th - 10th October 2025**
**University of Darmstadt, Germany**

_{Organised by PC Germany:}

_{Institute of Reactive Flows and Diagnostics}
_{(RSM - Reaktive Strömungen und Messtechnik)}
_{headed by Prof. Andreas Dreizler}
_{at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt}_{(Campus “Lichtwiese”)}

Thursday, 9th October 2025

Venue: Mechanical Engineering Department, Building L1/01, Otto-Bernd-Strasse 2, 6427 Darmstadt, Room K24 (an amphitheatre)

Thursday	9th October 2025	Room:	L1/01 K24	PC Germany Presentations
*09:00 - 09:10*	*Introduction*	*Andreas Dreizler*	*RSM*	*Welcome*
09:10 - 09:50	Review talk 1	Johannes Mich	STFS	“Great flames from small particles. Measurement and Modelling of Metal Combustion”
09:50 - 10:10	Contributed talk 1	Peter Stephan, Axel Sielaff	TTD	"Insights into Pool Boiling Heat Transfer: Experimental and Numerical Investigations from the Multiscale Boiling Project on the ISS“
10:10 - 10:30	Contributed talk 2	Felix Wolf	Informatik	"High-Performance Computing for Computational Engineering Science"
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40	Review talk 2	Tao Li	RSM	"Experimental Insights into Turbulent Ammonia/Hydrogen Combustion"
11:40 - 12:00	Contributed talk 3	John Linkhorst	VES	"Flow electrochemistry for the Metalenergy Cycle“
12:00 - 12:20	Contributed talk 4	Naveen Billur Mohan	FST	"Lubrication Film Friction Model for Non-Symetrically Profiled Annular Seals“
12:20 - 13:20	Lunch break
13:20 - 13:40	Contributed talk 5	Louis Krüger	SLA	"Flow and Heat Transfer Dynamics in Fuel Cell Cooling Systems: A Complentary Experimental and Scale-resolving Computational Study"
13:40 - 14:00	Contributed talk 6	Michael Börner	GL A	"Rotation Detonation Combustor Research for Space Propulsion Applications at TU Darmstadt"
14:00 - 14:20	Contributed talk 7	Florian Kummer	FDY	"Numerical Simulation of Flows with Dynamic Interfaces“
14:20 - 14:40	Contributed talk 8	Falco Marx	EST	“Advancing Waste Valorizationvia Fluidized Bed Thermochemical Conversion”
14:40 - 15:00	Coffee break
15:00 - 17:30	5 Presentations			20th Da Vinci Competition Final
15:00 - 15:20	Finalist 1	Deniz Bezgin	TU Munich, Germany	"Toward Machine-learned Discretizations and Differentiable CFD for Compressible Two-phase Flows"
15:20 - 15:40	Finalist 2	Jean-Jacques Hok	CERFACS, France	"Modeling Strategy for the Large Eddy Simulation of Lean Hydrogen-Air Explosions"
15:40 - 16:00	Finalist 3	Yash Kulkarni	Sorbonne Universite & CNRS, France	"Theoretical and Numerical Modelling of Three-Phase Dynamic Contact Line and Atomisation"
16:00 - 16:20	Finalist 4	Thomas Monahan	University of Oxford, UK	"Spatiotemporal Tidal Prediction and Analysis Using Physics-Informed Ml"
16:20 - 16:40	Finalist 5	Daniel Moron	University of Bremen, Germany	"The Transitional Regime of Pulsatile Pipe Flow"
16:40 - 17:10	Coffee Break			Committee deliberating
17:10 - 17:30	Decision	Closing Remarks		Presentation of Da Vinci Award
19:30	Gala Dinner	Restaurant	"Ratskeller Darmstadt"	Marktplatz 8, 64283 Darmstadt; (https://www.ratskeller-darmstadt.de/en/)

ercoftac-autumn-meeting-programme-tu-darmstadt_september-2025.pdf

Friday, 10th October 2025

Venue: The “Research Building” (Forschungsgebäude) L6/01, Otto-Bernd-Strasse 3, 6427 Darmstadt, Room 04/23

Friday	10th October 2025	Room : L6\|01 Raum 4/23 EG	Technical and Committee Meetings
09:00 - 12:00	Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) and Knowledge Network Committee (KNC)
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 15:30	ERCOFTAC Council (EC) and General Assembly (GA) Meetings

Travel Information:

Darmstadt is easily reachable by airplane via Frankfurt (one of the world largest airports); from airport to the City Centre (“Luisenplatz”);
There is the airport shuttle bus transport called AIRLINER
(https://www.rmv.de/c/en/tickets/your-ticket/tickets-overview/local-tickets/airliner-direct-bus-darmstadt-frankfurt-airport;
Daily driving schedule: https://www.rmv.de/c/fileadmin/documents/PDFs/_RMV_DE/Fahrkarten/Fahrkarten_im_Ueberblick/Lokale_Fahrkartenangebote/LNO_12_Darmstadt/Da_Airliner_Faltblatt.pdf),
Afterwards, to reach the TU Darmstadt – Campus “Lichtwiese”, the tram line number “2” from the city centre (“Luisenplatz”) can be used, or the bus line “L” (TU Darmstadt – Campus “Lichtwiese”)

There is a tram line number “2” driving from the Darmstadt main railway station (via City Centre) directly to the TU Darmstadt - Lichtwiese

Accommodation:

Hotel InterCity Darmstadt (close to the main railway station)
Maritim Hotel Darmstadt (close to the main railway station)
THE Darmstadt Hotel, Kasinostrasse 6 (between the main railway station and the city centre)
Welcome Hotel Darmstadt (City Centre, close to the central TU DA building)

Darmstadt tourist information