#MSCA researcher Zhuo Xu publsihed an article that helps to improve our understanding of how fluid–structure systems can be controlled in a robust and reliable way.
IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, Volume 43, Issue 2
hal.science/hal-05065176v2
Repetition of artcile title and authors in an image with a graphic from the article and the ModConFlex logo.
#ModConFlex researcher Mario Sinani at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social authored
"Data-Driven Parametric Aeroelastic Modeling of the Pazy Wing", AIAA SciTech 2026.
with R.Palacios, U.Fasel and A.Wynn
#physics_informed #machineLearning
#dynamicalsystems #aerospace
arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/...
#ModConFlex researcher Vicente Ocqueteau has finished a paper on the “Analysis of a Model for a Floating Platform Coupled with a Flexible Beam”. In the paper, he establishes well-posedness and derives an energy balance for the model.
Link to paper:
➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2603.12786
#HorizonEU
#MSCA
Last week, ModConFlex researchers and professors from Besançon, Twente and Wuppertal met at the Franco-German Doctoral College at Wuppertal.
It was a great opportunity to exchange with more recent and long-term members of the PHS community.
www.epc.ed.tum.de/rt/cdfa-phs/
#MSCA
#HorizonEU
Modelling and Control of Flexible Structures Interacting with Fluids - Conference
10 to 12 June 2026 at Wuppertal (Germany)
More details and registration:
modconflex.uni-wuppertal.de/en/network-m...
#ModConFlex
#HorizonEurope
#MSCA
Congratulations to the very productive #ModConFlex researchers! Over 20 papers have been written within our #MSCA project so far - several of them published.
For details, see modconflex.uni-wuppertal.de/en
#HorizonEU
#FOW is one of the most exciting opportunities in the energy transition but it's not without its challenges.
Our latest blog explores the idea of hybrid technology, an emerging concept which could bridge the gap between fixed and #floating.
ore.catapult.org.uk/resource-hub...
Boundary control systems on a one-dimension spatial domain - new paper co-authored by #ModConFlex researcher Bouchra Elghazi:
The paper studies when mathematical models of flexible structures with control at their boundaries are well posed.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.01634
#HamiltonianSystems
#horizonEU
#ModConFlex researcher Qian Liu recently co-authored a paper in #IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics journal.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...
#gridforming #IBR #powersystem #powerelectronics #renewables #stability #protection #relay
#horizonEU
Currently, #MSCA researcher Ignacio Diaz is visiting Wuppertal. We present his simulation: an energy preserving #PortHamiltonian system. It could be interpreted as an example for a wing of a plane / a floating platform.
#PortHamiltonian #simulation
#discretization #flexibleMechanics
#horizonEU
During science night, #MSCA researcher Albert Alcalde presented an interactive web app on Sentiment Analysis with Transformers, which lets visitors type any sentence and instantly see whether it expresses a positive or negative sentiment.
The App: albertalcalde.github.io/SentimentAna...
#HorizonEU
#ModConFlex' third Network Meeting took place at Besançon (France).
The meeting started with the project management meeting, followed by the 13 Ph.D. students presentations - and one presentation prize. Followed by several days of scientific and complementary teaching.
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#horizonEU
How does AI know how you feel?
Join our ModConFlex members Albert Alcalde and Giovanni Fantuzzi at Erlangen's Long Night of Science on 25 October to find out!
For more details, see the event's webpage:
nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/2025/sentime...
#horizonEU
Text: Sentiment analysis with Transformers in action. Logos of EU and ModConFlex. Date and time of event: Sat, 25.Oct, 17:00-24:00.
How does AI know how you feel?
Join our ModConFlex members Albert Alcalde and Giovanni Fantuzzi at Erlangen's Long Night of Science on 25 October to find out!
For more details, see the event's webpage:
nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/2025/sentime...
#horizonEU
Usually, #ModConFlex researcher Vicente Ocqueteau works at the University of Bordeaux.
Currently, he is spending two months at the University of Wuppertal.
On Wednesday, he presented his research on floating objects to the Work Group.
#horizonEU
#MSCA
"Last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative."
#ModConFlex researcher Alan Valadez presented his work on
“Enhancing Grid Stability with Synchronverter-Based Control for Grid-Side Converters in Wind Power Systems”
at ECCE Europe 2025 (Birmingham).
#HorizonEU
#WindPower
#SyntheticInertia
#GridForming
#PowerElectronics
#OffshoreWind
Interested in doing a #PhD in #engineering?
Open Position:
➡️ euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/371136
👩🎓
#ControlTheory
#AppliedMathematics
#ElectricalEngineering
Oscillation reduction of floating wind turbines. Stabilization of power grids using virtual synchronous machines.
#HorizonEU
New method to model the complex, flexible motion of aircraft wings.
M. A. Sinani, R. Palacios and A. Wynn: "Physics-Informed Data-Driven Modelling of Nonlinear Aerodynamic Forces of the Pazy Wing", 2025, AIAA SciTech Forum, 6-10 January, Orlando
#machineLearning
#aerospaceEngineering
Congratulations to Marius Tucsnak, who received the W.T. and Idalia Reid prize at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMs Annual Meeting last week:
www.siam.org/publications...
Marius Tucsnak is the ModConFlex Consortium member @univbordeaux.bsky.social
For a translation (summary) see our Mastodon or LinkedIn channels. There is too little space here...
www.ardmediathek.de/video/lokalz...
(Start at Minute 11).
Tonight, #ModConFlex will be on TV!
A few weeks ago, a small team from regional TV passed by @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social to meet with our coordinator and one of the PhD students. In 2 days here:
www.ardmediathek.de/sendung/loka... (in German, though - we will translate in a few days).
#HorizonEU
#ModConFlex researcher Mario Sinani co-authored
"Capturing & Bounding Nonlinear Modal Energy Transfer for Geometrically Exact Beams using Semi-Definite Programming"
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#nonlinearStructuralDynamics #aeroelastics
Last week, several #ModConFlex researchers presented at the 5th IFAC Workshop - CDPE 2025 - at Beijing. A group of 8 from the project attended
Ignacio Diaz and Bouchra Elghazi were on the shortlist for the Young Author Award and Bouchra even won the prize in the end. Congratulations!
#HorizonEU
On Wednesday afternoon several of our #MSCA project's researchers present at the "Modelling and Control of Flexible Structures" session at the
5th IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations (CPDE 2025)
ifac.papercept.net/conferences/...
#ModConFlex
#horizonEU
Hybrid Schrödinger-Liouville and projective dynamics:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.05532
Presentation at cpde2025.bjut.edu.cn (Beijing) this week by #ModConFlex researcher Kaja Krhač.
There is a special session on Modelling and Control of Flexible Structures with several other of our #MSCA PhD students.
Discussion with group in the lab.
Prof. Weiss, his two ModConFlex PhD students (left and rightmost) and an additional scientist.
#ModcConFlex researcher Maddalen Irigoien and Prof. George Weiss from Tel Aviv University visited #MSCA project colleague Alan Valadez during his stay at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Many thanks to the "Real Time Systems for Energy Technologies" group at KIT:
www.itep.kit.edu/rtset/english/
Some equations from the paper
New paper by #ModConFlex researcher Zhuo Xu on the robustness of a fluid-particle interaction system.
"A distinctive feature, not yet considered in the ISS literature, is that our system involves a free boundary..."
arxiv.org/abs/2505.08393
#PDE
#MSCA
#HorizonEU
Two photos: Bouchra Elghazi explaining control theory by balancing a pen in her hand and Birgit Jacob talking about a career in mathematics to students from different schools. Photographer: Luka Storms (BUW)
At the 2025 #GirlsDay #MSCA researcher Bouchra Elghazi explained the idea behind her mathematical research with a pen - balancing it on her palm and talking about dynamical systems and controls in a very illustrative way.
The 15 students from different schools also met with professor Birgit Jacob.
Figure 1 from "On an Initial Value Problem Describing the Small Oscillations of a Floating Cylinder"
#ModConFlex researcher Vicente Ocqueteau co-authored a study of small oscillations of a floating cylinder:
#existence, #uniqueness and #regularity results for the #solutions of the governing #equations.
arxiv.org/abs/2504.20523
#wellposedness
#waterwaves
#floatingbodies
#floatingWindTurbines
