ModConFlexLast 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 talk and exchange with more recent and long-term members of the PHS community.
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 https://modconflex.uni-wuppertal.de/en/publications
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. The authors identify the conditions under which the models can be fully controlled and observed.
This is useful for controlling and monitoring vibrations in structures like beams, aircraft wings, or wind-turbine blades.
#ModConFlex researcher Qian Liu recently co-authored a paper in #IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics journal.
It comprises research on developing advanced control strategies for inverter-based resources (e.g., solar photovoltaics, wind turbine generators) to ride through contingencies in electric grids.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11249469
#gridforming #IBR #powersystem #powerelectronics #renewables #stability #protection #relay
The winner of this year's presentation prize is #ModConFlex researcher Albert Alcalde. Congratulations!!
In his presentation, Albert showed how #transformer models, the #NeuralNetworks used in language models, can be designed to perfectly learn relationships between sequences of data.
Albert's results help to explain why transformers are so effective at capturing complex patterns, providing new mathematical insight into their inner workings.
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#ModConFlex third Network Meeting took place in the picturesque center of Besançon.
The management presentation and meetings were quickly followed by the 13 #MSCA researchers' presentations. While the presentations were overall above average, only one could win the presentation prize... .
The scientific teaching was provided not only by #HorizonEU project members but complemented by lectures from Denis Matignon (ISAE-SUPAERO) and Hector Ramirez (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria).
Usually, #ModConFlex researcher Vicente Ocqueteau works at the University of Bordeaux.
Currently, he is spending two months at the @uni_wuppertal , where he enjoys lively discussions with scientists working in the area of PDEs and functional analysis.
On Wednesday, he presented his research on floating objects to researchers from the Group of Functional Analysis, as well as some from the Collaborative Research Center “Port Hamiltonian Systems”.
This might be an interesting option also for #ModConFlex researchers after their PhD - #PostDoc fellowship:
A short report by #ModConFlex researcher Alan Valadez from ECCE 2025:
It was a pleasure to attend ECCE Europe 2025 in Birmingham and to present my work on “Enhancing Grid Stability with Synchronverter-Based Control for Grid-Side Converters in Wind Power Systems.”
My research focuses on applying a synchronverter-based control strategy for wind turbine grid-side converters.
#WindPower
#SyntheticInertia
#GridForming
#PowerElectronics
We developed a new method to model the complex, flexible motion of aircraft wings using machine learning. This approach builds accurate, physics-informed models from simulation data, helping engineers design better wings and controls.
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, FL, USA.
