Dries Allaerts
Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolDries Allaerts is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor and mechanical engineer specializing in CFD for wind energy, with eight years of research experience translating high-performance, massively parallel simulations into practical insights on wind-farm flow dynamics. Based at TU Delft’s Wind Energy Section and trained with a PhD from KU Leuven, he focuses on mesoscale-to-microscale coupling and regional-scale effects such as upstream blockage, extended wakes, and self-induced gravity waves. His work blends atmospheric-scale thinking with detailed turbine-scale modelling, enabling more realistic predictions of wind-farm impacts in operational conditions. Known for pushing computational limits, he develops scalable CFD approaches to capture complex multi-scale interactions that are often overlooked in conventional studies.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at KU Leuven
Dutch, English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
mmc8
data-conversion7
coupling6
science5
preprocessing5
simulation5
data-processing4
python4
code-analysis3
stl3
openscad2
high-performance2
3d2
obj2
3d-models2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DriesAllaerts/mmctools
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Collection of preprocessing, postprocessing, and analysis code for mesoscale-to-microscale coupling (MMC)
Contributions:2 PRs, 79 pushes, 48 branches in 3 years 6 months
mmccouplingcode-analysispostprocessingpreprocessing
DriesAllaerts/config-files-Eagle
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 33 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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