Publications

2025

• Smail Boughou, Ivan Batistić, Radouan Boukharfane, Ashraf Omar, and Daniel J. Inman. “Developing a Morphing Wingtip: Aeroelastic Design and FSI Analysis”. AIAA SciTech, Orlando, FL, Jan. 6-10(2025).

• Sarah Baaziz, Francesco De Vanna, and Radouan Boukharfane. “Analysis of Highly Underexpanded Sonic Jets from Elliptical Nozzles: A Large-Eddy Simulation Study”. AIAA SciTech, Orlando, FL, Jan. 6-10 (2025).

2024

• Sarah Baaziz and Radouan Boukharfane. “Large-Eddy Simulation of Highly Underexpanded Sonic Jets from Elliptical Nozzles” Physics of Fluids (2024).

• Smail Boughou, Ivan Batistić, Ashraf Omar, Philip Cardiff, Daniel J. Inman, and Radouan Boukharfane. “Investigation on aeroelasticity of morphing wing through dynamic response and virtual structural damping”. Physics of Fluids (2024).

• Radouan Boukharfane and Romain Buttay. “Flow topology and alignments of scalar gradients and vorticity in highly under-expanded turbulent jets”. AIAA SciTech, Orlando, FL, Jan. 6-10 (2024).

2023

• Marwane Elkarii, Radouan Boukharfane, Saad Benjelloun, Chakib Bouallou, and Nabil El Moçayd. “Global Sensitivity Analysis for Phosphate Slurry Flow in Pipelines using Generalized Polynomial Chaos”, Physics of Fluids (2023).

• Fatima Ez-Zahra El Hamra and Radouan Boukharfane. “Development and assessment of algorithms for DEM-LES simulations of fluidized bed”, Particuology (2023).

• Marwane Elkarii, Radouan Boukharfane, Saad Benjelloun, and Chakib Bouallou, “CFD Simulation and Investigation of Slurry Flows in Pipelines”, Particulate Science and Technology (2023).

• Sarah Baaziz, Nabil El Moçayd, Imad Kissami, and Radouan Boukharfane. “A gPC-based approach to uncertain interaction of oblique shocks and supersonic mixing layers”. AIAA SciTech, National Harbor, MD, Jan. 23-27, 2023.

• Smail Boughou, Radouan Boukharfane, Daniel J. Inman, Ashraf Omar, and Omer Ali Elsayed. “Study of Dynamic Interaction Between Low Re Aerodynamic Load and Flexible-Biomimetic Wings with Tailorable Stiffness by FSI Modeling”. AIAA SciTech, National Harbor, MD, Jan. 23-27, 2023.

2022

• Safae Elmisaoui, Saad Benjelloun, Radouan Boukharfane, Lhachimi Khamar, Sanae Elmisaoui, and Mohammed Khamar. “In silico CFD investigation of the granulation hydrodynamics in rotating drum: process sensitivity to the operating parameters and drag models” (2022).

• Irving Reyna Nolasco, Aimad Er-Raiy, Radouan Boukharfane, Anwar Aldhafeeri, Lisandro Dalcin, and Matteo Parsani. “Eigenanalysis and non-modal analysis of collocated discontinuous {G}alerkin discretizations with the summation-by-parts property”, Computers & Mathematics with Applications (2022).

• Rasha Aljahdali, Lisandro Dalcin, Radouan Boukharfane, Irving Reyna Nolasco, David E. Keyes, and Matteo Parsani. “Optimized explicit Runge–Kutta schemes for high-order collocated discontinuous Galerkin methods for compressible fluid dynamics”, Computers & Mathematics with Applications (2022).

• Aimad Er-Raiy, Radouan Boukharfane, F. E. Hernandez Perez, Hong G. Im, and Matteo Parsani. “Investigation of turbulence–flame interaction using the Schur decomposition”. AIAA SciTech, San Diego, USA, 3-7 January (2022).

• Smail Boughou, Ashraf Omar, Omer Ali Elsayed, Radouan Boukharfane, and M. Aldheeb. “Low Reynolds Number effect on CFD prediction of Bio Inspired Aerodynamics”. AIAA SciTech, San Diego, USA, 3-7 January (2022).

2021

• Aimad Er-raiy, Radouan Boukharfane, Linda Alzaben, and Matteo Parsani. “Assessment of local and non–local turbulent flow components on turbulence–flame interaction”, Journal of Physics Conference Series (2021).

• Radouan Boukharfane, Aimad Er-raiy, Marwane Elkarii, and Matteo Parsani. “A direct numerical simulation study of skewed three-dimensional spatially evolving compressible mixing layer”, Physics of Fluids (Received Editors’ Pick award) (2021).

• Radouan Boukharfane, Anthony Techer, and Aimad Er–raiy. “LES of reacting flow in a Hydrogen jet into supersonic crossflow combustor using a new turbulent combustion model”, International Journal of Aeronautical & Space Sciences (2021).

• Radouan Boukharfane, Aimad Er-raiy, Matteo Parsani, and Nilanjan Chakraborty . “Structure and dynamics of small-scale turbulence in vaporizing two-phase flows”. Scientific Reports - Nature (2021).

• Diego Rojas, Radouan Boukharfane, Lisandro Dalcin, David C. Del Rey Fernàndez, Hendrik Ranocha, David E. Keyes, and Matteo Parsani. “On the robustness and performance of entropy stable collocated discontinuous Galerkin methods”. Journal of Computational Physics (2021).

• Radouan Boukharfane, Aimad Er-raiy, Linda Alzaben, and Matteo Parsani. “Triple decomposition of velocity gradient tensor in compressible turbulence”. Fluids (2021).

• Matteo Parsani, Radouan Boukharfane, Irving Reyna Nolasco, David C. Del Rey Fernàndez, Stefano Zampini, Bilel Hadri, and Lisandro Dalcin. “High-order accurate entropy-stable discontinuous collocated Galerkin methods with the summation-by-parts property for compressible CFD frameworks: Scalable SSDC algorithms and flow solver”. Journal of Computational Physics (2021).

• Radouan Boukharfane, Saad Benjelloun, Matteo Parsani, and N. Chakraborty. “Investigation of turbulence statistics in two-phase gas-liquid flow”. 13th International ERCOFTAC Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements, Rhodes, Greece, 15-17 September (2021).

• Aimad Er-raiy, Radouan Boukharfane, Linda Alzaben, and Matteo Parsani. “Assessment of local and non–local turbulent flow components on turbulence–flame interaction”. 8th European Thermal Sciences Conference, 20-23 September (2021).

• Radouan Boukharfane, Aimad Er-raiy, Matteo Parsani, and Bilel Hadri. “Skewness effects on the turbulence structure in a high-speed compressible and multi-component inert mixing layers”. AIAA Aviation Forum and Exposition, 2-6 Aug, (2021).

• Irving Reyna Nolasco, Matteo Parsani, Lisandro Dalcin, and Radouan Boukharfane. “Eigenanalysis and non-modal analysis of entropy stable discretizations with the summation by parts property”. International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods, 12-16 July, Vienna, Austria, (2021).

• Radouan Boukharfane, Matteo Parsani, Laurent Joly, and Julien Bodart. “A study of pressure fluctuations over a Controlled-Diffusion airfoil at high Reynolds number using WMLES”. 32nd Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Nice, France, 17-19 May (2021).

• Matteo Parsani, Radouan Boukharfane, Irving Reyna Nolasco, Lisandro Dalcin, and D. E. Keyes. “Simulation of turbulent flows using a fully discrete explicit hp–nonconforming entropy stable solver of any order on unstructured grids”. AIAA SciTech 2021 Forum, Tennessee, USA, 20-24 May (2021).

• Radouan Boukharfane, Aimad Er-raiy, and Matteo Parsani. “Compressibility effects on homogeneous isotropic turbulence using Schur decomposition of the velocity gradient tensor”. AIAA SciTech, Tennessee, USA, 20-24 May (2021).

• Rasha Al Jahdali, Radouan Boukharfane, Lisandro Dalcin, and Matteo Parsani. “Optimized explicit Runge–Kutta schemes for entropy stable discontinuous collocated methods applied to the compressible Euler equations on unstructured grids”. AIAA SciTech, Tennessee, USA, 20-24 May (2021).

• Ramzi Messahel, Athanasios Boutsikakis, Gilles Grondin, Jérémie Gressier, Matteo Parsani, and Radouan Boukharfane. “A robust explicit asynchronous time integration method for hyperbolic conservation laws”. AIAA SciTech, Tennessee, USA, 20-24 May (2021).

• Aimad Er-raiy, Radouan Boukharfane, and Matteo Parsani. “Joint effects of differential diffusion and the stratification length-scale on flame kernel development”. AIAA SciTech, Tennessee, USA, 20-24 May (2021).

2020

• Radouan Boukharfane, Matteo Parsani, and Julien Bodart. “Characterization of pressure fluctuations within a controlled-diffusion blade boundary layer using the equilibrium wall-modelled LES. Scientific Reports - Nature (2020).

• Fábio Henrique Eugênio Ribeiro, Radouan Boukharfane, and Arnaud Mura. “Highly-resolved large-eddy simulations of combustion stabilization in a scramjet engine model with cavity flameholder”. Computers & Fluids (2020).

• Aimad Er-raiy, Radouan Boukharfane, and Matteo Parsani. “Effects of Composition Heterogeneities on Flame Kernel Propagation: A DNS Study”. Fluids (2020).

2019

• Radouan Boukharfane, Pedro José Martínez Ferrer, Arnaud Mura, and Vincent Giovangigli. “On the role of bulk viscosity in compressible reactive shear layer developments”. European Journal of Mechanics-B/Fluids (2019).

• Anthony Techer, Radouan Boukharfane, Guillaume Lehnasch, and Arnaud Mura. “Large-eddy simulations of a reactive jet in supersonic cross-flow based on a hybrid model of turbulent combustion”. ICDERS, Beijing, China, 28 July 28- 2 August (2019).

• Radouan Boukharfane, Julien Bodart, Marc C. Jacob, Laurent Joly, Thibault Bridel-Bertomeu and Thomas Node-Langlois. “Characterization of the pressure fluctuations within a Controlled-Diffusion airfoil boundary layer at large Reynolds numbers”. AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, p. 2722, (2019).

2018

• Radouan Boukharfane, Zakaria Bouali, and Arnaud Mura. “Evolution of scalar and velocity dynamics in planar shock-turbulence interaction”. Shock Waves (2018).

• Radouan Boukharfane, Fábio Henrique Eugênio Ribeiro, Zakaria Bouali, and Arnaud Mura. “A combined ghost-point-forcing/direct-forcing immersed boundary method (IBM) for compressible flow simulations”. Computers & Fluids (2018).

• Radouan Boukharfane, Arnaud Mura, Pedro José Martínez Ferrer, and Vincent Giovangigli. “The role of bulk viscosity on the development of reacting compressible shear layer”. ICCFD, Barcelona, Spain, 1-13 July (2018).

• Fábio Henrique Eugênio Ribeiro, Radouan Boukharfane, Vincent Robin, and Arnaud Mura. “Numerical study of combustion stabilization in a Scramjet engine model with cavity flameholder”. ICCFD, Barcelona, Spain, 1-13 July (2018).

2017

• Radouan Boukharfane, Zakaria Bouali, and Arnaud Mura. “Direct numerical simulations of shock–scalar mixing interaction”. 26th ICDERS, Boston, USA, 30 July-4 August (2017).

2015

• Radouan Boukharfane, Benjamin Bouvelle, Zakaria Bouali, and Aranud Mura. “An Immersed Boundary Method to Simulate Compressible Reactive Flows featuring Shock–Wave Interactions with Three-Dimensional Solid Obstacles”. 25th ICDERS, Leeds, UK, 2-7 August (2015).

Reports

• PhD thesis, “Contribution à la simulation numérique d’écoulements turbulents compressibles canoniques”, under the supervision of Arnaud Mura and Zakaria Bouali.
• Master thesis, “Numerical Simulation of the Distortion Generated by Crosswind Inlet Flows”, under the supervision of Jean-Yves Trépanier.