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Current research is mainly aimed at turbulent flows, their simulation with LES and DNS, and their control or optimization. Specific topics include

Salvetti MV, Geurts BJ, Meyers J, Sagaut P (eds). 2011 Quality and Reliability of Large-Eddy Simulations II, Springer, Berlin.

Meyers J, Geurts BJ, Sagaut P (eds). 2008 Quality and Reliability of Large-Eddy Simulations, Springer, Berlin.

Cao S-J, Meyers J. 2012 "On the construction and use of linear low-dimensional ventilation models," Accepted for publication in Indoor Air.

Wu P, Meyers J. 2011 "Globally conservative high-order filters for large-eddy simulation and computational aero-acoustics," Computers & Fluids 48, 150-162. (Copyright 2011 Elsevier. A preprint may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and Elsevier. The article is online available at: link)

Delport S, Baelmans M, Meyers J. 2011 "Maximizing dissipation in a turbulent shear flow by optimal control of its initial state," Physics of Fluids 23, 045105. (Copyright 2011 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The article may be found at: link)

Meyers J, Meneveau C. "Optimal turbine spacing in fully developed wind-farm boundary layers," Wind Energy, In Press. (The article is online available at: link)

Meyers J. 2011 "Error-landscape assessment of large-eddy simulations: a review of the methodology," Journal of Scientific Computing 49, 65-77. (The article is online available at: link)

Meyers J, Meneveau C, Geurts BJ. 2010 "Error-landscape-based multi-objective calibration of the Smagorinsky eddy-viscosity using high-Reynolds-number decaying turbulence data," Physics of Fluids 22, 125106. (Copyright 2010 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The article may be found at: link)

Calaf M, Meneveau C, Meyers J. 2010 "Large Eddy Simulation study of fully developed wind-turbine array boundary layers," Physics of Fluids 22, 015110. (Copyright 2010 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The article may be found at: link)

Delport S, Baelmans M, Meyers J. 2009 "Constrained optimization of turbulent mixing-layer evolution," Journal of Turbulence 10, N18 (Copyright 2009 Taylor & Francis. A preprint may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and Taylor & Francis. The article may be found at: link).

Meyers J, Meneveau C. 2008 "A functional form for the energy spectrum parametrizing bottleneck and intermittency effects," Physics of Fluids 20, 065109. (Copyright 2008 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The article may be found at: link)

Mesbah M, Meyers J, Baelmans M. 2008 "Acoustic performance of non-reflecting boundary conditions for a range of incident angles," Journal of Computational Acoustics 16, 11-29 (link).

Fathali M, Meyers J, Rubio G, Smirnov S, Baelmans M. 2008 "Sensitivity analysis of initial condition parameters on the transitional temporal turbulent mixing layer," Journal of Turbulence 9, N12 (link).

Meyers J, Lacor C, Baelmans M. 2008 "On the use of high-order finite-difference discretization for LES with double decomposition of the subgrid-scale stresses," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 56, 383-400 (link).

Meyers J, Geurts BJ, Sagaut P. 2007 "A computational error assessment of central finite-volume discretizations in large-eddy simulation using a Smagorinsky model," Journal of Computational Physics 227, 156-173 (link).

Meyers J, Sagaut P. 2007 "Evaluation of Smagorinsky variants in large-eddy simulations of wall-resolved plane channel flows," Physics of Fluids 19, 095105 (Copyright 2007 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The article may be found at: link).

Lucor D, Meyers J, Sagaut P. 2007 "Sensitivity analysis of large-eddy simulations to subgrid-scale- model parametric uncertainty using polynomial chaos," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 585, 255-279 (Copyright 2007 Cambridge University Press.This article may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and Cambridge University Press. The article may be found at: link).

Meyers J, Sagaut P. 2007 "Is plane-channel flow a friendly case for the testing of large-eddy simulation subgrid-scale models?" Physics of Fluids 19, 048105 (Copyright 2007 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The article may be found at: link).

Meyers J, Sagaut P. 2006 "On the model coefficients for the standard and the variational multi-scale Smagorinsky model," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 569, 287-319 (Copyright 2006 Cambridge University Press.This article may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and Cambridge University Press. The article may be found at: link).

Geurts BJ, Meyers J. 2006 "Successive inverse polynomial interpolation to optimize Smagorinsky’s model for large-eddy simulation of homogeneous turbulence," Physics of Fluids 18, 118102 (link).

Meyers J, Sagaut P, Geurts BJ. 2006 "Optimal model parameters for multi-objective large-eddy simulations," Physics of Fluids 18, 095103 (Copyright 2006 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The article may be found at: link).

Zerihun Desta T, Van Brecht A, Meyers J, Baelmans M, Berckmans D. 2005 "Numerical simulation and controller development for energy transfer in imperfectly mixed fluids," Indoor and Built Environment 14, 371-380.

Zerihun Desta T, Van Buggenhout S, Van Brecht A, Meyers J, Aerts J-M, Baelmans M, Berckmans D. 2005 "Modelling mass transfer phenomena and quantification of ventilation performance in a full scale installation," Building and Environment 40, 1583-1590.

Zerihun Desta T, Van Brecht A, Quanten S, Van Buggenhout S, Meyers J, Baelmans M, Berckmans D. 2005 "Modelling and control of heat transfer phenomena inside a ventilated air space," Energy and Buildings 37, 777-786.

Meyers J, Geurts BJ, Baelmans M. 2005 "Optimality of the dynamic procedure for large-eddy simulations," Physics of Fluids 17, 045108 (Copyright 2005 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The article may be found at: link).

Meyers J, Baelmans M. 2004 "Determination of subfilter energy in large-eddy simulations," Journal of Turbulence 5, 026 (Copyright 2004 IOP Publishing. This article may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and IOP. The article may be found at: link).

Zerihun Desta T, Van Brecht A, Meyers J, Baelmans M, Berckmans D. 2004 "Combining CFD and Data Based Mechanistic (DBM) modelling approaches," Energy and Buildings 36, 535-542.

Zerihun Desta T, Janssens K, Van Brecht A, Meyers J, Baelmans M, Berckmans D. 2004 "CFD for model based controller development," Building and Environment 39, 621-633.

Meyers J, Geurts BJ, Baelmans M. 2003 "Database analysis of errors in large-eddy simulations," Physics of Fluids 15, 2740-2755 (Copyright 2003 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded here for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The article may be found at: link).

	Optimization and control of turbulence, using LES and DNS, combined with adjoint-based gradient estimation
	Wind energy: windfarms and their interaction with the atmospheric boundary layer
	Indoor ventilation: simulation, optimization and control, based on large-eddy simulations
	Subgrid-scale modeling for large-eddy simulations (LES), numerical discretization and energy-conservation properties, computational error-assessment and prediction for LES

	Turbulence (keywords: free shear flows, boundary layers, transition, K41 theory, intermittency, modeling, DNS, LES, RANS, ...)
	Aerodynamics (keywords: inviscid flows, potential flow, Joukowski, Prandtl finite-wing theory, ...)
	Numerical methods for mechanical engineering (/ energy)
	Numerical techniques for fluid mechanics