Variational Multiscale Method Seminar

This seminar brings together researchers working on recent advances in the variational multiscale (VMS) method. The event aims to foster interaction between experts in theoretical analysis, numerical methods, and applications of multiscale modeling.

When
16 nov 2026 from 9 a.m. to 17 nov 2026 5 p.m. CET (GMT+0100)
Where
CWI, Euler room / L120
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Program


Monday 16 November

VMS foundations, projectors, and stabilization

Day 1: VMS foundations, projectors, and stabilization

10:00-10:20

Welcome and registration

10:20-10:45

Ramon Codina (UPC), On the Importance of Orthogonal Subgrid Scales

10:45-11:10

Suyash Shrestha (TU Delft), Projection-Based Discretisations for Variational Multiscale Problems

11:10-11:30

Coffee / tea break

11:30-11:55

René Hiemstra (TU Eindhoven), Fine Scales in the Test Space: A Conservative, Parameter-Free Petrov–Galerkin Method between VMS and DPG

11:55-12:20

Stein Stoter (TU Eindhoven), The Fine-Scale Closure Function: An Elegant Alternative to the Fine-Scale Green's Function

12:20-13:20

Lunch break

13:20-13:45

Mats Larson (Umeå U.), An Energy Framework for Nonlinear Variational Multiscale Methods

13:45-14:10

Ido Akkerman (TU Delft), What Are C and H in IGA?

14:10-14:35

Petr Knobloch (Charles U.), Computation of Parameters in Stabilized Methods Using Machine Learning

14:35-14:55

Coffee / tea break

14:55-15:20

Marco ten Eikelder (TU Darmstadt), From Constrained Projectors to VMS Discontinuity Capturing in Finite Element Methods

14:55-15:20

Tomás Chacón Rebollo (U. de Sevilla), Some Stabilized Pressure-Based Reduced Order Solvers for Incompressible Flows

16:10-16:25

Wrap-up and announcements

Tuesday 17 November

VMS in complex flows, boundaries, turbulence, and closure

Day 2: VMS in complex flows, boundaries, turbulence, and closure

09:20-09:45

Arif Masud (U. Illinois), Variational Multiscale Discontinuous-Galerkin (VMDG) Method for Adaptive Enforcement of Immersed Boundary Conditions

09:45-10:10

Guglielmo Scovazzi (Duke), Implementing the Variational Multiscale Method in the Context of the Shifted Boundary Method

10:10-10:30

Coffee / tea break

10:30-10:55

Yasutoshi Taniguchi (Waseda U.), Dirichlet-Boundary Stabilization in Space–Time Computational Analysis: Derivation in Elastodynamics

10:55-11:20

Volker John (WIAS Berlin), A Gradient-Robust Scheme for the Isentropic Compressible Stokes Problem

11:20-12:20

Lunch break

12:20-12:45

Guillermo Hauke (U. Zaragoza), Designing Diffuser Augmented Wind and Tidal Turbines with the Stabilized MRF Method and the VMS Turbulence Model

12:45-13:10

Artem Korobenko (Calgary U.), Stabilized Finite Element Simulation of Hypersonic Turbulent Flows in Thermochemical Nonequilibrium

13:10-13:35

Wouter Edeling (CWI), Title TBA

13:35-13:55

Coffee / tea break

13:55-14:20

Oriol Colomés (TU Delft), The Role of Orthogonal Subscales in Incompressible Flows: From Turbulence and Time Integration to Error Estimation and Uncertainty Quantification

14:20-14:45

Michael Abdelmalik (TU Eindhoven), Title TBA

14:45-15:10

John Evans (Boulder), What Are the Fine Scales? Separating Subfilter and Subgrid Closure in VMS

15:10-15:40

Panel discussion: open problems and future directions

Registration

Please register for the VMS Seminar via the registration form. Your registration will be confirmed once the participation fee of €40 has been received. The fee covers coffee, tea, lunches, and a joint dinner on Monday 16 November.


Cancellation policy

Cancellation before 3 November will receive full refund, after this date refund is no longer possible. To cancel, please send an email to Nada Mitrovic.

We look forward to welcoming you at the event!

Organising Committee

Wouter Edeling (CWI), Stein Stoter (TU Eindhoven), Michael Abdelmalik (TU Eindhoven), Marco Ten Eikelder (TU Darmstadt)

Funding

This seminar is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) through the ENW-M1 project ”Learning small closure models for large multiscale problems”.