Nowadays, computational activities cover about 1/2 of the activities of VKI, involving 6 faculty or scientists with doctoral degree, more than 15 PhD candidates, 15 postgraduate students, about 3 research engineers and several postdoctoral researchers. Many of the research activities carried out at VKI are supported by research contracts with industry, governmental institutions or international institutions (mostly EU and ESA), in the area's covered by its departments : Aerospace, Turbomachinery, Environmental, Applied Fluid Dynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics. A strong asset of the VKI is its world famous Lecture Series program: a program which contains annually 10-12 specialist courses of duration 1 week, teached by internationally recruited experts on the subject. Participants come from all over Europe, involving industry, research establishments and universities. An example is the annual advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics lecture series, which is in its 34th edition in 2004.The area mostly related to the present project is the fundamental CFD algorithms research under the responsibility of the Aerospace department, but also the other departments will be involved. This research targets solution techniques for hyperbolic conservation laws in general, with applications to various domains like aeronautics and space, two-phase flow in nuclear or in electrochemical reactors, Space Weather flow (ideal MHD), flow in plasma torches. Some specific recent research topics covered are: upwind schemes for convection dominated flows based on an original space-time formulation, implicit iterative strategies for finite volume and finite element flow solvers, multigrid, development of flow solvers on distributed memory parallel processing computers. Important research is carried out on hybrid grid generation and solution-adaptive grid generation, in collaboration with the SME Elsyca (http://www.elsyca.com). Both the CFD algorithms and grid generation research have been supported in EU projects. For further information on VKI please visit http://www.vki.ac.be

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