SU2 conference 2025

Awards

2025 Award for Contribution to the SU2 Community

This award is given annually to the person making the most outstanding contribution to the progress of the SU2 project during the past year, as determined by peer nomination. The person receiving the most nominations will be named the recipient of this year’s award.

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 award:

Joshua Kelly

2025 SU2 Conference Best Presentation Award

After the final talk on Tuesday, we ask that you express your opinion on the submitted talks by filling voting form below (time exceeded). The author(s) of the talk receiving the highest score will be named the recipient of this year’s award.

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 award:

Sanjay Vermani

Thermo-Hydraulic Topology Optimization of Heat Sinks Using SU2

2025 SU2 Contributor Gifts

The SU2 Foundation issued 10 gift vouchers (100 euros) to the following contributors (or teams) to releases 8.2.0 and 8.3.0 based on the content and number of contributions (pull requests).

Andrea Rausa

Areen Raj

Brian Munguía

Eitan Aberman

Evert Bunschoten

Floyd van Steen

Harsh Mishra

Jan Rottmayer

Josh Kelly

Ole Burghardt

Agenda

Day 1 – September 29

Time (CEST)	Title	Speaker
09:00 – 09:20	Welcome & SU2 Year In Review	Thomas D. Economon
09:20 – 09:40	CloudHPC scalability of an SU2 benchmark case	Ruggero Poletto
09:40 – 10:00	Advanced Postprocessing for Huge Transient Datasets	Jens Warkall
10:00 – 10:20	On The Implicit Discretisation of Non-Linear Diffusion Terms Appearing in Turbulence Models	Rutvik Khedkar
10:20 – 10:50	Break
10:50 – 11:10	Automation of SU2 Validation Cases Using GitHub Actions — A Scalable CI/CD Pipeline for Verification and Validation	Harsh Mishra
11:10 – 11:30	Using Performance Profiling and Code Optimization to Accelerate Data-Driven Fluid Simulations in SU2	Divyaprakash Divyaprakash
11:30 – 11:50	From single component to multicomponent and reacting flows in SU2: Overview and Challenges	Cristopher Morales Ubal
11:50 – 12:10	Implementation of a Nested Krylov Subspace Solver in SU2: Preliminary Study on Selected Aerodynamic Cases at High Reynolds Numbers	Ezgi Orbay Akcengiz
12:10-13:40	Lunch
13:40 – 14:00	How to use the new tape recording debug mode when a code modification impairs the discrete adjoint solver’s accuracy?	Ole Burghardt
14:00 – 14:20	Thermo-Hydraulic Topology Optimization of Heat Sinks Using SU2	Sanjay Vermani
14:20 – 14:40	Robust Mesh Deformation Based on Radial Basis Function Interpolation in SU2 for Adjoint Shape Optimisation	Floyd van Steen
14:40 – 15:00	CAD-Based Moving-Intersection Handling for Full-Span Turbomachinery Blades Optimization	Murillo Pereira Neto
15:00 – 15:20	Untangling Turbomachinery Adjoints – Recent Developments in SU2-TURBO	Joshua Kelly
15:20 – 16:10	Break
16:10 – 16:30	Experimental validation of SU2 results for the NASA High Efficiency Centrifugal Compressor	Alessandro Cappiello
16:30 – 16:50	Effectiveness and efficiency of using discrete adjoint in combination with data-driven fluid modeling for the optimization of complex fluid applications	Evert Bunschoten
16:50 – 17:10	Adjoint-Based Aerodynamic Shape Optimization with a Manifold Constraint Learned by Diffusion Models	Long Chen
17:10 – 17:30	A Deep Learning Framework for Time-Accurate Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation	Brian Munguía
17:30 – 18:30	Community discussion / Feedback

Day 2 – September 30

Time (CEST)	Title	Speaker
09:00 – 09:20	Numerical and experimental study of tandem dual jet injection into a supersonic cross flow	Edwin van der Weide
09:20 – 09:40	IRREVERSIBILITY ANALYSIS OF META-STABLE CONDENSATION WAVES IN SUPERSONIC FLOW	Felipe Fideles de Câmara
09:40 – 10:00	MODELING OF NONEQUILIBRIUM HYPERSONIC FLOW OVER THE HEXAFLY-INT VEHICLE USING SU2-NEMO	ARDA DOĞANCI
10:00 – 10:20	Integrating a Python Wrapper, JSON Validation, and a Simplified Installer for SU2-GUI	Urvashi Urvashi
10:20 – 10:50	Break
10:50 – 11:10	Advancements in Hydrogen Combustion Simulation Using Non Adiabatic Flamelets	Lisa Bachmann
11:10 – 11:30	Extending SU2 for Variable-Density Unsteady Incompressible Flow Simulations	Tahsin Kiymaz
11:30 – 11:50	Investigation of Unsteady Behavior in Supersonic Compressor Cascades: URANS and EDDES Analysis using SU2	Ludovic TAGUEMA
11:50 – 12:10	Python-Wrapper based implementation of the Turbulent Flame Speed Closure (TFC) model for turbulent premixed combustion	Anirban Ghosh
12:10 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 14:20	Mesh Adaptation in SU2: Current Status and Perspectives	Alberto Perlini
14:20 – 14:40	A 3D Shock-Fitting Technique for Hybrid Unstructured Meshes Coupled with SU2	Valerio Orlandini
14:40 – 15:00	SU2 Multi-Fidelity Bayesian Optimization Framework For Hypersonic Vehicle Design With Mesh Adaptation	Mattia Bertolini
15:00 – 15:20	Corrections for k-ω SST to Account for Wall Roughness when Coupled with a Roughness-Induced Transition Model	Marco Schifone
15:20 – 15:40	A Generalised Actuator Methodology for Next-Gen Aircraft Simulation in SU2	Zachary Ciera
15:40 – 16:10	Break
16:10 – 16:30	Advanced CFD Analysis of Pressure Control Devices: Comparative Assessment of SST-DDES and SST-URANS for Flow Dynamics under Varying Operating Conditions	Mahtap Mansur
16:30 – 16:50	Two-dimensional flutter analysis of BSCW model using SU2 code	Marcel Sunano

Day 1 – Turbo Workshop – October 1

Time (CEST)	Title	Speaker
09:00 – 10:00	Introduction to turbo features in SU2	M. Pini
10:00 – 10:15	Break
10:15 – 12:00	Flow simulation in axial & radial turbines	A. Cappiello / J. Kelly
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:30	Flow simulation in axial compressors	A. Mahajan
14:30 – 14:45	Break
14:45 – 15:45	Turbomachinery shape optimization with SU2 – Part 1 Introduction and gradient-free methods	L. Baert
15:45 – 16:00	Break
16:00 – 17:00	Turbomachinery shape optimization with SU2 – Part 2 Adjoint methods (background)	M. Pini
17:00 – 17:30	Wrap-up and adjourn	All

Day 2 – Turbo Workshop – October 2

Time (CEST)	Title	Speaker
09:00 – 10:00	Turbomachinery shape optimization with SU2 – Part 3 Application of adjoint-based methods	A. Cappiello
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 12:30	Coding session	J. Kelly
12:30 – 12:45	Wrap-up and closure	All

Organizing Committee

• Giulio Gori – Coordinator of local organizing committee – Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano
• Andrea Rausa – Local organizing committee – Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano
• Francesco Caccia – Local organizing committee – Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano
• Luca Abergo – Local organizing committee – Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano
• Alberto Perlini – Local organizing committee – Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.