Benoît Bottin
Biography
Education
- CAPAES in Physical Sciences (Certificat d'Aptitude Pédagogique Adapté à l'Enseignement Supérieur), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 2004
- PhD in Applied Sciences, (plus grande distinction), Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium, 1999
- Postgraduate Diploma in Aeronautics/Aerospace with Honours, von Karman Institute, Sint Genesius Rode, Belgium, 1993
- Electromechanical Engineer (Aerospace) (grande distinction), Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium, 1992
Career
1998 – present: Associate Professor, Institut Supérieur Industriel de Bruxelles (ISIB)
1999 – present: Adjunct Professor (part time), von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Since 2010, Head of the Mechanical Department
Service to Society
Reviewer for Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Awards
- Eurotherm young scientist prize 2000 for Ph.D. thesis
Teaching
- Associate Lecturer at Brussels' Universities ULB & VUB (Bruface program - Aircraft Structures course) since 2006
- Invited Lecturer at Polytech Nancy (Université de Lorraine) (Incompressible Aerodynamics, Compressible Aerodynamics) since 2014
- Rational mechanics, Thermodynamics, Fluid mechanics, Scientific methodology, Scientific report-writing and communication, Applied mechanics & thermodynamics (exercices), Aircraft structures, Gas dynamics and introduction to high-speed aerodynamics, Aerospace propulsion, Low-speed aerodynamics, Aeronautics (aircraft performance, static stability, instruments, and rules of the air), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), at ISIB
- Inviscid Aerodynamics in Aeronautics (Incompressible flow) (von Karman Institute 2.5 ECTS)
- Low Speed Wind Tunnel Analysis and Design (von Karman Insitute 1 ECTS)
- Low Speed Wind Tunnel Test Techniques (von Karman Insitute 1 ECTS)
Research
- Participation in the management and design issues of the VKI plasmatron
- Concept design work on a new icing tunnel for research puropses at EADS Munich
- Many small applied research projects at ISIB in partnership with small industries and interface organizations (ADISIF, INDUTEC)
Publications
Archival journal Publications (last 10 years)
BOTTIN B., VANDEN ABEELE D., MAGIN T.E., RINI P., Transport properties of collision-dominated dilute gas mixtures at low pressures and high temperatures, Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 42, 2006, pp. 38-83 (JCR Impact 2019-2020: 8.940)
BOTTIN B., CARBONARO M., CHAZOT O., DEGREZ G., VANDEN ABEELE D., BARBANTE P., PARIS S., VAN DER HAEGEN V., MAGIN T., PLAYEZ. M., A decade of aerothermal plasma research at the von Karman Institute, Contributions to Plasma Physics, Vol. 44, Issue 5-6, 2004, pp. 472-477 (JCR Impact 2019-2020: 1.226)
DEGREZ G., VANDEN ABEELE D., BARBANTE P., BOTTIN B., Numerical simulation of inductively coupled plasma flows under chemical non-equilibrium, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 14, Issue 4, 2004, pp. 538-558 (JCR Impact 2019-2020: 2.871)
Contributions to books
VANDEN ABEELE D., BOTTIN B., DEGREZ G., BARBANTE P., SARMA. G.S.R., Physico-chemical modelling for computational studies of high-temperature reactive flows in an inductive plasma wind tunnel, Proc. 15th IMACS world congress Vol.3, Computational Physics, Chemistry and Biology (ed. A. Sydow), pp. 163-168, Wissenschaft and Technik Verlag, Berlin, 1997.
VANDEN ABEELE D., VASIL'EVSKII S.A., KOLESNIKOV A.F., DEGREZ G., BOTTIN. B., Code-to-code validation of inductive plasma computations. Progress in Plasma Processing of Materials 1999 (ed. P. Fauchais and J. Amouroux), pp. 245-250, Begell House Inc., New York, 1999.
