Jeroen Wackers, former PhD student at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), received his PhD degree 'cum laude' (with honours) on 5 November 2007 at Delft University of Technology (TUD). The PhD committee concluded that the research is 'highly innovative and of superior quality, with respect to both mathematics and physics'. The PhD thesis is entitled 'Surface Capturing and Multigrid for Steady Free-Surface Water Flows'.
Wackers did trail-blazing research on computational methods for two-fluid flows, as water-air flows around ships. Together with thesis adviser Barry Koren (CWI and TUD), he developed a robust and efficient method to compute turbulent water-air flows around ship hulls. A new approach for studying the energy exchange between fluids was introduced. Tests on benchmark problems show that the accuracy of the models and methods developed is excellent.
At CWI, Wackers worked in the research group 'Scientific Computing and Control Theory', in a project financed by the research program BRICKS. Currently, Wackers continues his two-fluid flow research as a postdoc at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes.
CWI congratulates Jeroen Wackers with this success!
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