Bert Pluymers

Industrial Research Manager (IOF)
at the Noise and Vibration Research Group
of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Contact information

dr.ir. Bert Pluymers
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Departement Werktuigkunde
Celestijnenlaan 300 B
3001 Leuven, Belgium

E-mail: bert.pluymers@mech.kuleuven.be
Tel.: +32-(0)16-32 24 80
Fax : +32-(0)16-32 29 87
Office 02.029

Curriculum

2008- : Fellow of the Industrial Research Fund at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: Coordination of the industrial research activities in the Noise and Vibration Research Group of the K.U.Leuven
2006-2008: Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- My present research focusses on the development of alternative numerical prediction techniques, the so-called Wave Based Modelling Methods, for tackling steady-state vibro-acoustic problems in the mid-frequency range.
June 2006: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Doctoral thesis: "Wave based modelling methods for steady-state vibro-acoustics"
2000-2006: Ph.D. student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
July 2000: Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering (with great distinction) at K.U.Leuven (Burgerlijk Ingenieur Werktuigkunde, optie Mechatronica)
- Master thesis: "Experimental and numerical vibro-acoustic analysis of the driver's cabin of a harvester"
1995-2000: University studies: Mechanical-Electrotechnical Engineering, Faculaty of Applied Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
1989-1995: Secondary school: Latin-Mathematics at the Amandina-college, Herk-de-Stad

Recent publications

Selection of journal papers

Pluymers B., Van Hal B., Vandepitte D., Desmet W., "Trefftz-based methods for time-harmonic acoustics", Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (ARCME), DOI: 10.1007/s11831-007-9010-x, (2007), 343-381.
Pluymers B., Vanmaele C., Desmet W., Vandepitte D., "Application of a hybrid finite element – Trefftz approach for acoustic analysis", Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences (CAMES),13 (3) (2006), 427-444.
Pluymers B., Desmet W., Vandepitte D., Sas P., "On the use of a wave based prediction technique for steady-state structural-acoustic radiation analysis", Journal of Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (CMES), 7 (2) (2005), 173-184
Pluymers, B., Desmet, W., Vandepitte, D., Sas, P., "Application of an efficient wave based prediction technique for the analysis of vibro-acoustic radiation problems", Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (JCAM), 168 (2004), 353-364
Desmet, W., Pluymers, B., Sas, P., "Vibro-acoustic analysis procedures for the sound insulation characteristics of agricultural machinery cabins", Journal of Sound and Vibration (JSV) 266 (2003) 407 - 441

Selection of full conference papers

Bergen B., Van Genechten B., Van Renterghem T., Pluymers B., Vandepitte D., Desmet, W., Botteldooren D., "Comparison of numerical prediction techniques for sound propagation in complex outdoor environments", Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV15) (Daejeon, Korea, 2008), 821-828
Van Genechten, B., Bergen B., Pluymers B., Vandepitte D., Desmet, W., "A novel modelling approach for sound propagation analysis in a multiple scatterer environment", Proceedings of Acoustics'08 (Paris, France, 2008), 5221-5226
Bergen B., Van Genechten B., Pluymers B., Vandepitte D., Desmet, W., "On the use of a multi-level Trefftz based modelling formalism for the analysis of unbounded steady-state acoustics", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Trefftz Methods (Trefftz.08) (Leuven, Belgium, 2008), 133-148
Pluymers B., Vandepitte D., Desmet W., "On the use of a high-order finite element – wave based method for interior acoustic cavity analysis", Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV14) (Cairns, Australia, 2007)
Pluymers B., Desmet W., Vandepitte D., Sas P., "Wave based modelling methods for steady-state interior acoustics: an overview", Proceedings of the International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering ISMA2006 (Leuven, Belgium, 2006), 2303-2358.

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