Programme

Engineering CCP Conference 2026 Day 1 — Monday 14 September 2026

Time	Session	Chair	ID	Title	Author / Presenter	Affiliation
10:00–10:30	Registration
10:30–10:40	Opening Remarks: Deborah Greaves
10:40–11:20	Keynote	Stefano Rolfo	Keynote 1	Perspectives on Accelerated Computing and Machine Learning for Engineering Simulation	Neil Ashton	NVIDIA
11:20–11:30	Poster Flash Talks A 4 presentations (2 min each)	Stefano Rolfo	P1	Lighter, Smarter, Porous: The Next Evolution of Flight	Kushal Umamahesh	Cranfield
			P2	TOWARDS CARBON EMISSIONS FEEDBACK FOR USERS IN STFC CLOUD	Hieu Le	UKRI STFC
			P3	High-Fidelity Multi-GPU Simulation of Jet Aeroacoustics for Noise Reduction	Gokul Menon	University of Birmingham
			P4	Interaction of Breaking Waves with a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT)	Lige Zhao	University of Oxford
11:30–12:00	Coffee Break & Poster Viewing
12:00–12:15	Oral Session 1 GPU-Accelerated Computing and Performance Portability	Stefano Rolfo	O1	GPU-Enabled uDALES for Exascale-Ready Urban Large-Eddy Simulation	Dipanjan Majumdar	Imperial College London
12:15–12:30			O2	GPU-accelerated HOS-SPH coupling for extreme three-dimensional wave simulation	Chong Ma	National Maritime Research Institute, National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, Japan
12:30–12:45			O3	Performance-portable SPH with Kokkos and Cabana: refactoring DualSPHysics for heterogeneous architectures	Benedict D. Rogers	The University of Manchester
12:45–13:00			O4	GPU Porting of CHAPSim for Turbulence and Heat Transfer Simulations	Wei Wang	UKRI STFC
13:00–13:15			O5	gpuFOAM: Accelerating CCP-WSI Workflows with GPU-Enabled OpenFOAM	Mayank Kumar	UKRI STFC
13:15–14:15	Lunch
14:15–14:55	Keynote	Gavin Tabor	Keynote 2	Towards High-Fidelity Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Computational Analysis of Fusion Components	Aleksander Dubas	UKAEA (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)
14:55–15:05	Poster Flash Talks B 4 presentations (2 min each)	Gavin Tabor	P5	Benchmark of PETSc GPU offloading for CFD solver	Cathal McStay	University of Edinburgh
			P6	Neural-Operator Surrogate Modelling for Wave–Structure Interaction: A Sloshing-Tank Benchmark	Tianyang Zhao	University of Oxford
			P7	Barge Motion Prediction using AI	Jessica Guichard	University of Plymouth
			P8	Experimental Investigation of Sloshing in Cylindrical Tank with Solid and Porous Baffles	Suvijak Maneegoolpunt	University of Plymouth
15:05–15:35	Coffee Break & Poster Viewing
15:35–15:50	Oral Session 2 AI/ML, Visualisation and Data-Driven Methods	Gavin Tabor	O6	Multi-Objective Wind Farm Optimisation using High-Fidelity Multiphysics Simulations	Andrew Mole	Imperial College London
15:50–16:05			O7	A code_saturne HPC Image-Based Simulation Pipeline for Industrial and Engineering Applications	Harriet Jones	UKRI STFC
16:05–16:20			O8	Accelerating Wave–Structure Interaction Simulations Using Graph Neural Operators	Yiyun Raynold Tan	UKRI STFC, Hartree Centre
16:20–16:35			O9	Use of Graph Neural Networks for time evolution of single and multiphase transport equations.	Jony Castagna	UKRI-STFC Hartree Centre
16:35–16:50			O10	Visualization Support for Training PINNs as PDE Solvers	Afrah Farea	University of Oxford
16:50–17:05			O11	A Volumetric Pipeline for Real-Time Visualisation of Time-Resolved CFD Data of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine in Unreal Engine 5	Leo Rangheard	University of Plymouth
17:30–19:30	Networking Reception

Engineering CCP Conference 2026 Day 2 — Tuesday 15 September 2026

Time	Session	Chair	ID	Title	Author / Presenter	Affiliation
09:00–09:15	Oral Session 3 Multiphysics, Particle and Interfacial Flows	Jun Zang	O12	AxiCoBEM: Verification and Validation of a Sharp-Interface Boundary-Element Solver for Inertial Drop Coalescence	Harish Viswanathan	Sheffield Hallam University
09:15–09:30			O13	Enhancing RBC Interaction Models with a Lattice Boltzmann Framework	James Entwistle	Sheffield Hallam University
09:30–09:45			O14	Novel Single-Phase SPH Approaches for Temperature-Dependent Surface Tension and Dynamic Wetting Problems	Benedict D. Rogers	The University of Manchester
09:45–10:00			O15	OPS-Particle: A domain specific language for the mechanistic and multiphase modeling of particulate systems.	Chrysovalantis Tsigginos	UKRI STFC
10:00–10:15			O16	Experimental Investigation of Sloshing in Cylindrical Tank with Solid and Porous Baffles	Suvijak Maneegoolpunt	University of Plymouth
10:15–10:30			O17	A New Collaborative Computational Community in Particulate Solids Simulations: CCC-ParaSolS	John Morrissey	University of Edinburgh
10:30–10:40	Poster Flash Talks C 5 presentations (2 min each)	Jun Zang	P9	Nuclear Engineer/ Thermal-hydraulic and CFD Analyst	Fernando Scarafia	IDOM UK
			P10	Single-frame prediction and field reconstruction for eddy viscosity using GNN in 2D flow around a square cylinder	Pai Liu	City St George's, University of London
			P11	CCP-WSI AI Hackathon - Rapid prediction of pressure and free-surface elevation around a buoy under focused-wave loading	Zhi Zheng	University of Oxford
			P12	An Uncertainty-Aware Workflow for Methane Source Inversion from Multi-Open-Path Measurements	Hamid Kavari	Durham University
			P13	Colour-gradient Multi-component Lattice Boltzmann Method for Red Blood Cell Simulation	James Entwistle	Sheffield Hallam University
10:40–11:10	Coffee Break & Poster Viewing
11:10–11:50	Keynote	Wei Wang	Keynote 3	Rethinking CFD for modern HPC systems	Francesc Xavier Trias Miquel	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
11:50–12:05	Oral Session 4 DNS/LES and High-Fidelity Flow Simulation	Wei Wang	O18	A Multi-Fidelity Computational Framework for the Aerodynamic Analysis of Low-Reynolds-Number Contra-Rotating Wind Turbines	Raima Rahman	Queen Mary University of London
12:05–12:20			O19	Investigating Cooling Strategies in Hypersonic Boundary Layer Flow using DNS	Raahil Sanjay Nayak	Sheffield Hallam University
12:20–12:35			O20	IDDES Simulation of Turbulent Spray Flame Evolution and Vorticity Transport	Donggang Cao	University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)
12:35–12:50			O21	Direct numerical simulations of linearly accelerating turbulent channel flow	Zekun Ma	University of Warwick
12:50–13:05			O22	Modelling flow around an Ahmed body using high fidelity LES	Will Biddles	University of Warwick
13:05–14:05	Lunch
14:05–14:20	Oral Session 5 Offshore Wind, Turbines and Marine Systems	Yeaw Chu Lee	O23	Breaking wave properties in deep-water sea states	Lige Zhao	University of Oxford
14:20–14:35			O24	Influence of static individual blade root pitch offset on tip-vortex pairing and near-wake evolution in wind turbine wakes	Sa Zhu	University of Oxford
14:35–14:50			O25	Feasibility of Offshore Hybrid Platforms for the Celtic Sea: Effect of Nets on a Floating Offshore Wind Platform	Kalina Karadimova	University of Plymouth
14:50–15:05			O26	SWENSE-Based CFD: A Faster Approach to Floating Wind Turbine Wave-Structure Simulations	Sithik Aliyar	Technical University of Denmark
15:05–15:20			O27	Benchmark Data for Three Selected Floating Wind Platform Concepts: Wake Dynamics and Power Production of Tandem 15-MW Floating Offshore Wind Turbines	Hamid Sarlak	Technical University of Denmark
16:00–16:15	Prize Announcement and Closing Remarks: Deborah Greaves
16:15 onwards	Departure

Please note that this is a preliminary programme and is subject to change. The schedule, session allocation and presentation details will be continuously updated as arrangements are finalised. Please check this page regularly for the latest version.