UKTC Final Annual meeting
14-15 December 2026
Imperial College London
The UKTC final annual meeting will be held in London at Imperial College on 14th and 15th December 2026.
The meeting will start at 09.30am on the first day and will end at 4pm on the second day. There will be a reception organised on the first day.
The meeting will consist of invited oral presentations, and an interactive poster session for Early Career Researchers (PhD students, post-docs, lecturers, research software developers).
Early Career Researchers have the opportunity to present their work during the poster session (up to 40 posters, first come first serve). If you are interested in presenting a poster, just indicate the title during the registration.
Registration is free but mandatory: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/cAHgXKeRCC
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List of invited talks in alphabetic order (to be updated regularly):
-Umair Ahmed: Deciphering premixed flame-turbulence interactions in complex flow environments
-Eldad Avital: Turbulence in Environmental and Energy Flows: From Vegetated Rivers to Offshore Aquaculture and Wind Turbines
-Angela Busse: Roughness topography effects on turbulence
-Marta Camps Santasmasas: From PhD Student to Academic: Research, HPC, and community through UKTC
-Nilanjan Chakraborty: Harnessing National HPC for Fundamental Turbulent Combustion Research
-Gary Coleman: Study of a system of turbulent shear layers and vortices
-Jae-Wook Kim: Flow-acoustic resonance in deep and inclined cavities
-Sylvain Laizet: Studying Turbulence: My Journey through CPUs, GPUs, QPUs and AI
-David Lusher: Turbulent transonic airfoil buffet and OpenSBLI: Advances in large-scale high-fidelity simulations on GPUs
-Aimee Morgans: From Road Vehicle Aerodynamics to Gas Turbine Flames: LES for a Decarbonised Future
-Alfredo Pinelli: Closed-loop control of wall-bounded turbulence using a data-driven latent surrogate from sparse lagged wall measurements
-Alistair Revell: Continued improvements in Hybrid RANS LES approaches and some recent applications
-Neil Sandham: Transition to turbulence in hypersonic boundary layers including effects of thermal nonequilibrium
-Spencer Sherwin: A UKTC Journey: From bioflow to turbo machinery
-Takis Tsoutsanis: From HECTOR to Exascale: The Evolution of UCNS3D Software and High-Order Methods for Turbulence Research
-James Tyacke: The LES Odyssey
-Maarten van Reeuwijk: Turbulence Edges
-Christos Vassilicos: The turbulence cascade in non-homogeneous turbulence
-Wei Wang: Understanding turbulent heat transfer through high-fidelity simulation: a journey with the UKTC
-Zhong-Nan Wang: Harness turbulence-generated sound: prediction, understanding and control
-Andy Wheeler: High-fidelity simulation supporting aerothermal design
-Hao Xia: Turbulence in MHD
Expense Claims for the Annual Meeting
The UKTC will cover the costs of attending the meeting for its members and their students (up to two hotel nigh per person, max £169 per room per night, and economy train/flight tickets). Invited speakers will also have their costs covered as long as they aligned with UKRI rules.
The expense claim form is here. Please ensure you complete all relevant sections and that your claim complies with UKRI regulations. Claims must be submitted within three months. For Imperial employees, please follow the internal procedure in your Department and get in touch with Sylvain Laizet to get the account to be charged.
To submit your claim:
The meeting will start at 09.30am on the first day and will end at 4pm on the second day. There will be a reception organised on the first day.
The meeting will consist of invited oral presentations, and an interactive poster session for Early Career Researchers (PhD students, post-docs, lecturers, research software developers).
Early Career Researchers have the opportunity to present their work during the poster session (up to 40 posters, first come first serve). If you are interested in presenting a poster, just indicate the title during the registration.
Registration is free but mandatory: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/cAHgXKeRCC
=========================================================================================================================
List of invited talks in alphabetic order (to be updated regularly):
-Umair Ahmed: Deciphering premixed flame-turbulence interactions in complex flow environments
-Eldad Avital: Turbulence in Environmental and Energy Flows: From Vegetated Rivers to Offshore Aquaculture and Wind Turbines
-Angela Busse: Roughness topography effects on turbulence
-Marta Camps Santasmasas: From PhD Student to Academic: Research, HPC, and community through UKTC
-Nilanjan Chakraborty: Harnessing National HPC for Fundamental Turbulent Combustion Research
-Gary Coleman: Study of a system of turbulent shear layers and vortices
-Jae-Wook Kim: Flow-acoustic resonance in deep and inclined cavities
-Sylvain Laizet: Studying Turbulence: My Journey through CPUs, GPUs, QPUs and AI
-David Lusher: Turbulent transonic airfoil buffet and OpenSBLI: Advances in large-scale high-fidelity simulations on GPUs
-Aimee Morgans: From Road Vehicle Aerodynamics to Gas Turbine Flames: LES for a Decarbonised Future
-Alfredo Pinelli: Closed-loop control of wall-bounded turbulence using a data-driven latent surrogate from sparse lagged wall measurements
-Alistair Revell: Continued improvements in Hybrid RANS LES approaches and some recent applications
-Neil Sandham: Transition to turbulence in hypersonic boundary layers including effects of thermal nonequilibrium
-Spencer Sherwin: A UKTC Journey: From bioflow to turbo machinery
-Takis Tsoutsanis: From HECTOR to Exascale: The Evolution of UCNS3D Software and High-Order Methods for Turbulence Research
-James Tyacke: The LES Odyssey
-Maarten van Reeuwijk: Turbulence Edges
-Christos Vassilicos: The turbulence cascade in non-homogeneous turbulence
-Wei Wang: Understanding turbulent heat transfer through high-fidelity simulation: a journey with the UKTC
-Zhong-Nan Wang: Harness turbulence-generated sound: prediction, understanding and control
-Andy Wheeler: High-fidelity simulation supporting aerothermal design
-Hao Xia: Turbulence in MHD
Expense Claims for the Annual Meeting
The UKTC will cover the costs of attending the meeting for its members and their students (up to two hotel nigh per person, max £169 per room per night, and economy train/flight tickets). Invited speakers will also have their costs covered as long as they aligned with UKRI rules.
The expense claim form is here. Please ensure you complete all relevant sections and that your claim complies with UKRI regulations. Claims must be submitted within three months. For Imperial employees, please follow the internal procedure in your Department and get in touch with Sylvain Laizet to get the account to be charged.
To submit your claim:
- Attach the completed expense claim form along with all receipts/tickets.
- Send it to John at aero.research @ imperial.ac.uk, with me in copy.
- Use the subject line: "For John: UKTC Final Annual Meeting - Expense Claim -"