Publications and communications of Koen Hillewaert

Articles accepted in reviewed journal

Toracchio, R., Hillewaert, K.* , & Fontaneto, F.*. (03 February 2026). Experimental and Numerical Characterization of the Stable Operating Range of a Highly Loaded Axial Compressor Stage. International Journal of Turbomachinery, Propulsion and Power, 11 (1), 8. doi:10.3390/ijtpp11010008
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Brunelli, C., Avirovic, M., Janssens, B., Marinus, B. G., Hillewaert, K., & Runacres, M. (February 2026). Prediction of Laminar Separation Bubble on Airfoils at Low Reynolds Number. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 116 (2). doi:10.1007/s10494-025-00727-7

Corthouts, N., Hillewaert, K., Magin, T., & May, G. (2025). A Monolithic Multi-domain Hybridized Discontinuous Galerkin Solver for Inductively Coupled Plasma Flow. Journal of Computational Physics, 114270. doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2025.114270

Bilocq, A., Borbouse, M., Levaux, N., Terrapon, V., & Hillewaert, K. (2025). Comparison of stabilization strategies applied to scale-resolved simulations using the discontinuous Galerkin Method. Journal of Computational Physics. doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2025.114238

Budo, A., Bartholet, J., Le Men, T., Hillewaert, K., & Terrapon, V. (01 April 2025). Preliminary Assessment of Geometric Variability Effects Through a Viscous Through-Flow Model Applied to Modern Axial-Flow Compressor Blades. International Journal of Turbomachinery, Propulsion and Power, 10 (2), 6. doi:10.3390/ijtpp10020006

Boxho, M., Toulorge, T., Rasquin, M., Winckelmans, G., Dergham, G., & Hillewaert, K. (29 March 2025). Wall Model Based on a Mixture Density Network to Predict the Wall Shear Stress Distribution for Turbulent Separated Flows. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 115 (3), 1157 - 1180. doi:10.1007/s10494-025-00641-y

Gangemi, G. M., Alvarez Laguna, A., Massot, M., Hillewaert, K., & Magin, T. (2025). Bridging Multifluid and Drift-Diffusion models for bounded plasmas. Physics of Plasmas. doi:10.1063/5.0240640

Boxho, M., Toulorge, T., Rasquin, M., Dergham, G., & Hillewaert, K. (2024). Low Cost Recurrent and Asymptotically Unbiased Estimators of Statistical Uncertainty on Averaged Fields for DNS and LES. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion. doi:10.1007/s10494-024-00556-0

Toracchio, R., Fontaneto, F., & Hillewaert, K. (10 November 2023). Steady and Unsteady Numerical Characterization of the Secondary Flow Structures of a Highly Loaded Low-Pressure Compressor Stage. International Journal of Turbomachinery, Propulsion and Power, 8 (4). doi:10.3390/ijtpp8040044

Boxho, M., Rasquin, M., Toulorge, T., Dergham, G., Winckelmans, G., & Hillewaert, K. (2022). Analysis of Space-Time Correlations to Support the Development of Wall-Modeled LES. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion. doi:10.1007/s10494-022-00365-3

Yan, Z.-G., Pan, Y., Castiglioni, G., Hillewaert, K., Peiro, J., Moxey, D., & Sherwin, S. (01 January 2021). Nektar++: Design and implementation of an implicit, spectral/ element, compressible flow solver using a Jacobian-free Newton Krylov approach. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 81. doi:10.1016/j.camwa.2020.03.009

Frère, A., Hillewaert, K., Chatelain, P., & Winckelmans, G. (2018). High Reynolds Number Airfoil: From Wall-Resolved to Wall-Modeled LES. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 101 (2), 457-476. doi:10.1007/s10494-018-9972-9

Frére, A., Sorensen, N. N., Hillewaert, K., & Winckelmans, G. (2016). Discontinuous Galerkin methodology for Large-Eddy Simulations of wind turbine airfoils. Journal of Physics. Conference Series, 753, 022037. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/753/2/022037

Chevaugeon, N., Hillewaert, K., Gallez, X., Ploumhans, P., & Remacle, J.-F. (2007). Optimal numerical parameterization of discontinuous Galerkin method applied to wave propagation problems. Journal of Computational Physics, 223, 188-207. doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2006.09.005

Articles accepted in conference proceedings

Rocca, A., Rasquin, M., Hillewaert, K., Rifai, A. A., & Toulorge, T. (2025). WALL-RESOLVED iLES OF COMPRESSOR TANDEM-BLADES USING HIGH-ORDER DG METHOD. In Turbomachinery: Deposition, Erosion, Fouling, and Icing; Design Methods and CFD Modeling for Turbomachinery; Ducts, Noise and Component Interactions. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). doi:10.1115/GT2025-151633

Toracchio, R., Hillewaert, K., & Fontaneto, F. (2025). PERFORMANCE AND SECONDARY FLOW STRUCTURES CHARACTERIZATION IN A HIGHLY-LOADED LOW-PRESSURE COMPRESSOR UNDER DISTORTED INFLOW CONDITIONS. In Turbomachinery: Axial Flow Fan and Compressor Aerodynamics; Axial Flow Turbine Aerodynamics. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). doi:10.1115/GT2025-153169

Budo, A., Hillewaert, K., Bartholet Jules, & Terrapon, V. (2023). Assessment of geometric variability effects through a viscous through-flow model applied to modern axial-flow compressor blades. In Proceedings of 15th European Conference on Turbomachinery. Euroturbo.

Gangemi, G. M., Alejandro Alvarez Laguna, Hillewaert, K., & Magin, T. (2022). Development of a multi-component diffusion fluid solver for a two-temperature argon plasma. In EUCASS-3AF 2022 Proceedings. EUCASS. doi:10.13009/EUCASS2022-6157

Torre, A. F. M., Lavagnoli, S., & Hillewaert, K. (2021). Experimental Investigation Of The Aerodynamics Of A Single-Stage High-Speed Low-Pressure Turbine. In Experimental Investigation Of The Aerodynamics Of A Single-Stage High-Speed Low-Pressure Turbine. von Karman Institute.

Papadogiannis, D., Mouriaux, S., Cagnone, J.-S., Hillewaert, K., Duchaine, F., & Hiernaux, S. (2019). Influence of the numerical strategy on wall-resolved LES of a compressor cascade. In Proceedings of the 13th European Turbomachinery Conference (published online). doi:10.29008/ETC2019-418

Cagnone, J.-S., Rasquin, M., Hillewaert, K., & Hiernaux, S. (2017). LARGE EDDY SIMULATION OF A LOW PRESSURE COMPRESSOR CASCADE AT HIGH INCIDENCE. In 12th European Conference on Turbomachinery Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics (published online: https://www.euroturbo.eu/publications/conference-proceedings-repository/etc12-2017/). doi:10.29008/ETC2017-318

Hillewaert, K., Cagnone, J.-S., Murman, S., Garai, A., Yu, L., & Ihme, M. (2016). Assessement of high order DG methods for LES of free stream transonic turbulence. In P. Moin (Ed.), Proceedings of the summer program 2016 (online: https://ctr.stanford.edu/proceedings-2016-summer-program). CTR.

Carton de Wiart, C., & Hillewaert, K. (2012). DNS and ILES of transitional flows around a SD7003 using a high order Discontinuous Galerkin Method. In Seventh International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (https://www.iccfd.org/iccfd7/proceedings.html).

Oral presentations in conferences with scientific selection committee

Lopes, G., Lavagnoli, S., Hillewaert, K., Dellacasagrande, M., & Lengani, D. (September 2025). Boundary Layer Transition Mechanisms in a High-Speed Low-Pressure Turbine Blade [Paper presentation]. Engineering Turbulence Modeling and Measurements, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Rasquin, M., Boxho, M., Toulorge, T., & Hillewaert, K. (September 2025). High-Fidelity Simulations of Adverse Pressure Gradient Flow over a Rounded Step for Turbulence Model Improvement via Database Generation [Paper presentation]. Engineering Turbulence Modeling and Measurements (ETMM), Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Rocca, A., Rasquin, M., Marichal, Y., Hillewaert, K., & Toulorge, T. (September 2025). Turbulence Characterization in Compressor Tandem Blades Aerodynamics [Paper presentation]. Engineering Turbulence Modeling and Measurements, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Borbouse, M., Deneffe, N., Thys, M., Boxho, M., Rasquin, M., Lopes, G., Lavagnoli, S., & Hillewaert, K. (28 March 2025). Direct Numerical Simulations of the SPLEEN cascade: a study of the impact of compressibility on transition and separation in a low-pressure turbine passage [Paper presentation]. 16th European Turbomachinery Conference (ETC16), Hannover, Germany. doi:10.29008/ETC2025-282

Brach, M., Rocca, A., & Hillewaert, K. (28 March 2025). Compressor tandem blade: investigation into actuation strategies [Paper presentation]. 16th European Turbomachinery Conference, Hannover, Germany.

Pastorino, G., Boufidi, E., Hillewaert, K., & Fontaneto, F. (2025). Aerodynamic scaling of a high-speed low-pressure turbine cascade, optimized for boundary layer similarity in a low-speed test rig [Paper presentation]. 16th European Turbomachinery Conference (ETC16). doi:10.29008/etc2025-214

Borbouse, M., Lopes, G., Lavagnoli, S., Rasquin, M., & Hillewaert, K. (11 April 2024). Boundary layer stability and shock interactions in a high speed low pressure turbine cascade [Paper presentation]. DLES14 - Direct and Large Eddy Simulation, Erlangen, Germany.

Rasquin, M., Thomas, J.-F., Cenaero, Bechlars, P., Franke, M., & Hillewaert, K. (2023). DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF AIRFOIL CASCADES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF TURBULENCE MODELS THROUGH DATABASE GENERATION [Paper presentation]. ETC15 - 15th European Conference on Turbomachinery Fluid dynamics & Thermodynamics, Budapest, Hungary.

Posters presentations in conferences with scientific selection committee

Heylen, M., Lemort, V., Delanaye, M., & Hillewaert, K. (May 2023). Development of a Two-Stage Radial Inflow Turbine for a Mini-ORC [Poster presentation]. SFT Congrès Français de Thermique, Reims, France.