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Planning
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Guided tour of Toulouse - Free guided visit of Toulouse - registration is mandatory | |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome Party at Donna Cafe |
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Registration - Onsite registration | |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Welcome (Lecture Hall 001) | |
| 09:30 - 10:15 | Session 1 - Aerothermodynamics & Shockwaves (Lecture Hall 001) - Domenico Bruno | (+) |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | › Simulation of the Entry of a Sphere into a Nitrogen Atmosphere with a Vibrational-Specific Model - Marie-Claude Druguet, Aix-Marseille Université | |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | › Dynamics of MHD Flows in Low-Density Argon Plasmas at a Stagnation-Point Disk - Mattéo Comito, ONERA/ICARE | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | › Extension of UniGasFoam Solver to Multiscale Rarefied Polyatomic Gas Flows - Nikos Vasileiadis, Flow Matters Consultancy BV | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee break (Aeronautics Hall) | |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Plenary Lecture 1 (Lecture Hall 001) - Stéphane Colin | (+) |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | › Flying at Very Low Earth Orbit: An Application of Aerothermochemistry - Thierry Magin, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics | |
| 11:30 - 12:45 | Session 2 - Aerothermodynamics & Shockwaves (Lecture Hall 001) - Manuel Torrilhon | (+) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | › A Novel Splitting Scheme and Its Application to Stochastic Particle Simulation of Diatomic Gas Flows - Ziqi Cui, Beihang University | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | › Hybrid Approach to Modeling Coupled Vibrational–Chemical Relaxation in Carbon Dioxide Mixtures - Denis Kravchenko, St Petersburg State University | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | › Kinetic Modelling of Chemically Reacting Mixtures: A BGK-Type Approach - Anna Macaluso, University of Parma | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | › Shock Thickness Analysis in Multi-Temperature Navier–Stokes Equations for Binary Inert Mixtures - Giorgio Martalo, University of Pavia | |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | › Shock Wave Dynamics in Non-Equilibrium Gas Flow Regimes: Insights from Grad-Type Moment Systems - Satyvir Singh, RWTH Aachen University | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch (Aeronautics Hall) | |
| 14:00 - 15:45 | Session 3 - Momentum and Mass Transport in Rarefied Gas Flows (Lecture Hall 001) - Arjan Frijns | (+) |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | › Enhancing DSMC Simulations of Rarefied Gas Using a Fast-Converging and Asymptotic-Preserving Scheme - Lei Wu, Southern University of Science and Technology | |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | › Efficient Adjoint Optimization of Rarefied Gas Flows - Lei Wu, Southern University of Science and Technology | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | › A Denoising Multiscale Particle Method for Simulating Nonequilibrium Gas Flows - Hao Yang, Beihang University | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | › Experimental Measurements of Acetone Diffusion Coefficients in Gas Mixtures by Molecular Tagging - Andrea Luccon, University of Toulouse | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | › Measurements of Helium Argon Mixture Using Constant Volume Technique - Irina Graur, Aix-Marseille Université | |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | › Estimation of N₂ Volume Viscosity by Classical Trajectories Simulation - Domenico Bruno, Italian National Research Council | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | › On the Generation of Corner Flow Circulation at Highly Rarefied Conditions - Din Ben-Adva, Israel Institute of Technology | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee break (Aeronautics Hall) | |
| 16:15 - 18:00 | Session 4 - Momentum and Mass Transport in Rarefied Gas Flows (Lecture Hall 001) - Lei Wu | (+) |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | › From 3D Tensors to 1D: A Reduction Strategy for Moment Closures in Multidimensional Systems - Eda Yilmaz, RWTH Aachen University | |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | › High-Order Schemes for Stochastic Particle Solution of Fokker–Planck Kinetics - Montanaro Veronica, Swiss Federal Institute of Material Sciences | |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | › Domain Decomposition for the Boltzmann Equation - Revanth Kollegala Sharma, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven | |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | › Molecular Dynamics-Informed Collision Kernels for Polyatomic Gases - Bas Gieling, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven | |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | › Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Oriented Granular Gases - Ben Nadler, University of Victoria | |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | › Correcting Navier-Stokes-Fourier System for Rarefied Flows with Non-Linear Super-Stencil - Yijun Wang, ETH Zurich | |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | › Model-Adaptive Simulation of Moment Equations for Capturing Nonequilibrium Regions in Rarefied Gas Flows - Rik Verbiest, University of Groningen | |
| 20:00 - 22:30 | Scientific Committee Dinner (SC members only) – Free evening for other participants |
Thursday, March 26, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 08:45 - 09:45 | Session 5 - Gas-Surface and Plasma-Wall Interaction (Lecture Hall 001) - Stylianos Varoutis | (+) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | › Thermal and Gas-Surface Interaction Effects in Rarefied Rayleigh-Bénard Convection - Sanjana Rao, IIT Madras | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | › Gas–Surface Interaction Models for Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) Systems - Ahilan Appar, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | › Experimentally Determining the Effect of Gas–Surface Interactions on Particle Dynamics in Rarefied Flows - Rick Jansen, Eindhoven University of Technology | |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | › Thermodynamically Consistent Incorporation of the Langmuir Adsorption Model into Compressible Fluctuating Hydrodynamics - Changho Kim, University of California | |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Coffee break (Aeronautics Hall) | |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Plenary Lecture 2 (Lecture Hall 001) - Pierre Perrier | (+) |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | › Photophoretic Levitation: From Aerosols to Aircraft - Ben Schafer, Rarefied Technologies Inc., Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 6 - Sensors, Actuators, Pumps, Heat Exchangers, and Other Devices (Lecture Hall 001) - Martin Wüest | (+) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | › Design and Modelling of Knudsen Micropumps Fabricated via Advanced Laser Manufacturing - Thanasis Basdanis, University of Toulouse | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | › Realization of Friction Reduction Acting on an Object Utilizing Knudsen Force - Hiroki Yamaguchi, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya University | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | › Microregenerators Designed for Oscillatory Gas Flows inside Cryocoolers - Samuel Bonnet, Université Grenoble Alpes | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | › Fabrication of a Knudsen Micropump For Operation Above Atmospheric Pressures - Phassawat Leelaburanathanakul, University of Toulouse | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | › Actuation of Artificial Micro-Muscles Using a Knudsen Micropump - Marcos Rojas-Cárdenas, University of Toulouse | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | › Performance Study on a Knudsen Pump Prototype Fabricated via Two-Photon-Polymerization - Franz Schweizer, University of Toulouse | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Ceremony and Group Photo (Lecture Hall 001) | |
| 13:00 - 14:15 | Lunch (Aeronautics Hall) | |
| 14:15 - 16:00 | Session 7 - Non-Equilibrium Plasma Flows (Lecture Hall 001) - Dimitris Valougeorgis | (+) |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | › Radiometric Forces on Structures Composed of Coaxial Rings - Benjamin Schafer, Rarefied Technologies Inc., Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | › H-Theorems for Dense Inert and Reactive Mixtures with Application to Global in Time Existence of Solutions - Jacek Polewczak, California State University | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | › Hyperbolicity of a Hermite-Laguerre Moment Model for the Plasma Edge in Slab Geometry - Julian Koellermeier, Ghent University | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | › Space Charge Compensation of Hydrogen Ion Beams: A Particle-in-Cell Study - Benzi John, STFC Daresbury Laboratory | |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | › Ionic Wind Induced by a Dielectric Barrier Discharge between a Needle Tip and the Surface of a Liquid - Eric Moreau, University of Poitiers | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | › Cold Plasma-Induced Liquid Flow: What Is the Role of Electrohydrodynamic Phenomena? - Eric Moreau, University of Poitiers | |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | › The Key Role of Non-Equilibrium Gas Flows on Edge Plasma Behavior and Exhaust Efficiency in Nuclear Fusion Reactors - Stylianos Varoutis, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break (Aeronautics Hall) | |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Session 8 - Heat Transfer in Rarefied Gas Flows (Lecture Hall 001) - Lucien Baldas | (+) |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | › Generalized Thermodynamically Admissible 13-Moment Equations - Luke Bell, University of Victoria | |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | › Anomalous Nonequilibrium Effects in Supersonic Rarefied Flows - Vladimir Aristov, Russian Academy of Sciences | |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | › A Semi-Lagrangian Method for the Polyatomic ESBGK Model and Its Comparison to DSMC - Erik Arlemark, ASML | |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | › Particle Reduction Schemes for Binning-Based Merging Approaches in Variable-Weight DSMC - Georgii Oblapenko, RWTH Aachen University | |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | › DSMC Evaluation of the Thermophoretic Force on Micron-Sized Particles in Rarefied Gas Conditions with Hermite Boundary Domain Truncation - Ralf Reinartz, Eindhoven University of Technology | |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | › Raman Thermometry of Confined Gas Microflows - José Maria Fernández, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia | |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | › The Use of the Thermophoretic Force for Aerosol Particle Separation - Irina Graur, Aix-Marseille University | |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | › Gas Transport through a Capillary Bundle Induced by a Temperature Gradient - Junhao Tu, Aix-Marseille University | |
| 20:00 - 23:30 | Conference Dinner |
Friday, March 27, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 08:45 - 09:45 | Session 9 - Multiphase Microflows and Interfacial Phenomena (Lecture Hall 001) - Irina Graur | (+) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | › Mass and Heat Transfer at Liquid–Vapor Interfaces: Real Gas and Nonlinearity - Henning Struchtrup, University of Victoria | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | › Molecular Kinetic Modelling of Surface-Confined Evaporative Flows - Yonghao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | › Nonlocal Moment Equations for Liquid-Vapor Flows - Aldo Frezzotti, Politecnico di Milano | |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | › A Conforming Interface Approach for Phase Transitions in Rarefied Gas Dynamics Based on the R13 Equations - Manuel Torrilhon, RWTH Aachen University | |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Coffee break (Aeronautics Hall) | |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Plenary Lecture 3 (Lecture Hall 001) - Marcos Rojas-Cárdenas | (+) |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | › Thermally-Induced Flows in Microfluidic Systems: From Optothermal Fluidic Experiments to Non-Equilibrium Gaseous Modeling - Tetsuro Tsuji, Kyoto University | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Session 10 - Gas Flows in Fluidic Microsystems (Lecture Hall 001) - Erik Arlemark | (+) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | › Interfacial Resistivities from a Shakhov-Enskog Kinetic Model - Gaetan Brunetto, University of Toulouse | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | › Evaporation & Condensation Coefficients under Non-Equilibrium Conditions - Arjan Frijns, Eindhoven University of Technology | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | › Consistent Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Low-Speed Isothermal Flows in the Slip Flow Regime: A Unified Slip Velocity Boundary Scheme - Goncalo Silva, Universidade de Évora | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Closing Word (Lecture Hall 001) | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch (Aeronautics Hall) | |
| 13:00 - 17:30 | Industrial site and museum visis - Visit of Airbus Assemby Lines and of Aeroscopia Museum |
