Final Report

Dates and location

2 April — 4 April 2025, London,UK

Chairperson

Luca Magri

Co-chairperson

Georgios Rigas

Conference fees

early bird registration fee : 520.00 €
early bird PhD student : 420.00 €
regular registration fee: 620.00 €
regular PhD student: 520.00 €
late registration fee: 700.00 €
late PhD student: 730.00 €
online registration fee: 300.00 €

What other funding was obtained?

N/A

What were the participants offered?

Lunch, drinks reception, talks, panel sessions, etc.

Applicants (members)

Margaux Boxho
Sotirios Catsoulis
Paola Cinnella
Andrew Cleary
Guy Cornejo Maceda
Nicholas Daultry Ball
Pietro De Palma
Anh Khoa Doan
Lloyd Fung
Laurence Griffiths
Priyam Gupta
Juan Guzman-Inigo
Thomas Hunter
Yongyun Hwang
Solkeun Jee
Javier Jimenez
Sylvain Laizet
Adrien Lefauve
Xiaodong Li
Alex Liberzon
Luigi Marra
Miguel Martinez Valero
Ricard Montalà
Alicia Rodríguez-Asensio
Matteo Rosellini
Maria Vittoria Salvetti
Julio Soria
Iacopo Tirelli
Aaron Towne
Xiao Xue
Nick Zang
Junjie Zhang
Dao Zhou
Xiaojue Zhu

Applicants (non members)

Mahdi Abkar
Usamah Adia
Lionel Agostini
Blessing Mojisola Akinpelu
Azza Algatheem
Sergio Augusto Angelini
Alessandro Angioi
Intesaaf Ashraf
Neil Ashton
Iliass Azijli
Vikram Bajaj
Giacomo Baldan
Nausheen Basha
Vittorio Bauduin
Nikos Bempedelis
Luca Biferale
Owen Brook
Michele Alessandro Bucci
Tyler Buchanan
Uttam Cadambi Padmanaban
Gioacchino Cafiero
Clément Caillaud
Magnus Carlsson
Andrea Carlucci
Lidia Caros
Maxime Casanova
Andrea Cassinelli
Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi
Marco Cayuela
Oussama Chaib
Chotirawee Chatpattanasiri
Adam Clarke
Oluwaseun Coker
Antonio Colanera
Tim Colonius
Riccardo Consonni
Ginevra Covoni
Alireza Darzi
Daniel Dehtyriov
Simon Demange
Lou Denis
Grégory Dergham
Gregor Doehner
Wouter Edeling
Morgane Evin
Gianmarco Farro
Urban Fasel
Hossein Fatahian
Eliana Fausti
Jose Florido
Tobias Flynn
Enrico Foglia
Matthias Franke
André Freitas
Marian Fuchs
Blanca Fuentes Monjas
Wilfried Genuist
Lucas Gerken Starepravo
Alessandro Giannotta
Alexis Giauque
Georgios Goinis
Thomas Goode
Harshinee Goordoyal
Lou Guerin
Christoffer Hansen
Isa Helal
Benjamin Herrmann
Faron Hesse
Tom Hickling
Simone Hochgreb
Miranda Horne
Zhao Hou
Guangyuan (Dennis) Huang
Fabian Hübenthal
David Huergo
Kacper Janczuk
Seohee Jang
Paul Jeanney
Richard Jefferson-Loveday
Sankalp Jena
Patrick Jenny
Peter Jimack
George Klavaris
Roman Klopsch
Bjoern Klose
Jan Krautter
Jai Kumar
Dibyakanti Kumar
Nishant Kumar
Oleksandr Kyriienko
Christian Lagemann
Esther Lagemann
Ana Larrañaga
Marco Laudato
Alexander Lavin
Howon Lee
Nicolas Lepage
Chun Lam Li
Haoyan Li
Mario Lino
Bjoern List
Hamish Lister
Kevin Liu
Alexander Lobbe
Didier Lucor
Jonas Luther
Osama Maklad
Iva Manojlović
Riccardo Margheritti
Javier Martínez Rubio
Olaf Marxen
Jonathan Massey
Ryley Mcconkey
Scott Mcisaac
Elisabetta Merico
Mir Hamed Mohafez
Babak Mohammadikalakoo
Andrew Mole
Thomas Monahan
Vincent Mons
Benjamin Moore
Iraj Mortazavi
Tom Moussie
Soufiane Mrini
Benjamin Musci
Salvador Navarro-Martinez
Andrea Nóvoa
Kasia Nowakowska
Kilian Oberleithner
Joseph O'Connor
Ivan Olarte Rodriguez
Anand Oza
Adrian Padilla-Segarra
Alberto Padovan
Jacob Page
Andrei Paleyes
Shaowu Pan
Jonas Pangerl
George Papadakis
Viraj Patel
Daniele Petronio
Cristiano Pimenta
Moreno Pintore
Stefan Posch
Lisa Prahl Wittberg
Pawel Przytarski
Manuel Ratz
Joshua Rawden
Andrin Rehmann
Saleh Rezaeiravesh
Gianluigi Rozza
Dylan Rubini
Ettore Saetta
Amine Saibi
Ladan Salari
Saeed Salehi
Marcial Sanchis
Mohammed Sardar
Luca Saverio
Jamie Saw
Taraneh Sayadi
Stijn Schepers
Anna Schwarz
Onofrio Semeraro
Arindam Sengupta
Yazhou Shen
Gorka S. Larraona
Douglas Smith
Nithin Somasekharan
Filippo Spiga
Pedro Stefanin Volpiani
Sean Stokes
Kristaps Stolarovs
Sean Symon
Kunihiko Taira
Tianning Tang
Hui Tang
Renzhi Tian
Matteo Tomasetto
Niccolò Tonicello
Niccolò Tonioni
Nicholas Treleaven
Giovanni Tretola
Filotas Tziaros
Adam Venter
Rens Vermeulen
Luke Vernon
Tristan Villanueva
Peter Vincent
Domagoj Vlah
Konstantina Vogiatzaki
Marie-Christine Volk
Jakob Von Saldern
Den Waidmann
Andrew Wallis
Shuo Wang
Yifei Wang
Shaofan Wang
Zhong-Nan Wang
Yanqi Wang
Owen Wastell
Alastair West
Xiang Yang
Tao Yang
Matteo Zancanaro
Dmitriy Zhigunov
Yunpeng Zhu
Lu Zhu

Scientific report

The inaugural EuroMech/ERCOFTAC Joint Conference successfully took place in London, UK, from April 2nd to 4th, 2025. The event served as a significant platform for the convergence of diverse communities from Fluid Mechanics, Applied Mathematics, and Machine Learning, effectively fostering collaboration at the intersection of these disciplines.

The conference featured a scientific programme comprising about 186 high-quality presentations, selected following a rigorous peer-review process. This included 45 high-impact “punch talks” of 5 minutes and 141 comprehensive full-length talks of 15 minutes. The event attracted over 250 in-person participants from a wide array of international locations, including the UK, USA, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Belgium, Hong Kong, South Korea, Denmark, Chile, Sweden, Austria, and Israel. Attendees represented a broad spectrum of institutions, spanning academia, national laboratories, and industry.

The three-day programme was structured around three parallel sessions, complemented by four keynote lectures and a dedicated panel discussion. The technical presentations and discussions explored a range of cutting-edge topics, including data assimilation, model discovery, reduced-order modelling, scientific machine learning and its theoretical underpinnings, digital twins, turbulence modelling, flow control and reinforcement learning, physics-constrained adaptive learning, exascale computing and machine learning, and diverse applications across science and engineering.

The conference was privileged to host four distinguished keynote speakers who provided state-of-the-art and diverse perspectives on the development and application of data-driven methods in fluid mechanics:

Prof. Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist at The Alan Turing Institute and Professor at the University of Cambridge.
Prof. Steven Brunton, James B. Morrison Endowed Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington.
Prof. Petros Koumoutsakos, Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. Professor of Computing in Science and Engineering at Harvard University.
Prof. Beverley McKeon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.

A highlight of the programme was the panel discussion titled “The Future of Science and Fluid Mechanics in an AI Era”. Chaired by Dr. Neil Ashton (Distinguished CAE Product Architect, NVIDIA), the panel brought together leading experts: Paola Cinnella (Sorbonne), Tim Colonius (Caltech), Gianluca Iaccarino (Stanford), Petros Koumoutsakos (Harvard), Luca Magri (Imperial), Beverley McKeon (Stanford), and Taraneh Sayadi (le CNAM). The discussion addressed the current landscape, identified open challenges, and charted potential future directions for the integration of Artificial Intelligence within the field of fluid mechanics.

Number of participants from each country

Country	Participants
United Kingdom	93
France	35
United States	23
Italy	19
Germany	17
Netherlands	11
Spain	10
Sweden	6
Switzerland	6
Belgium	4
China	4
Denmark	3
Korea South	2
Australia	2
Croatia	2
Chile	1
India	1
Israel	1
Austria	1
South Africa	1
Total	242