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Professor Thomas Pardoen, iMMC, UCLouvain is the 2023 laureate of the Grande Médaille de la société française de métallurgie et de matériaux (SF2M). The Grande Médaille de la SF2M, bearing the effigy of Henry Louis LE CHATELIER, is awarded, as the crowning achievement of a career, to a person...

Well done to the brave riders who braved the difficult weather conditions! The iMMC team took second place in the humanitarian bike category, as well as first place in the number of laps for the folk bikes. The 2 humanitarian bikes rode this year for the Debra Asbl, which supports families...

This image illustrates vertical temperature gradients during turbulent convection within a mixed pure-fluid/porous domain. The porous region, shown as a white parallelepiped at the base of the image, contains a heated solid matrix that warms the nearby fluid and initiates thermal...

This image depicts the vorticity magnitude in the wake of a large wind turbine operating in realistic turbulent wind conditions. Each blade produces a vortex tube that is shed from its tip, giving rise to a near wake characterized by a helicoidal configuration. Further downstream, the vortex...