LASEF (Laboratory of Simulation in Energy and Fluids) is a research unit of IST/IDMEC (Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica at Instituto Superior Técnico) aiming to be as center of excellence of Numerical Methods applied to Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Areas of research:

Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Development of Navier-Stokes algorithms based on high-order Finite Difference and Finite Volume methods

Flow Physics Modelling and Simulation

• Turbulence structure (Direct Numerical Simuations and Large Eddy Simulations)

Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

• Experimental techniques, LDA, PDA, DPIV.