Sunday 12th July 2026: Afternoon (Day 1)
Topic: Welcome and keynote presentation
15:00 15:30

Introduction to school

G. Amati
SuperComputing Applications and Innovation (SCAI) Department, CINECA
S. Pirozzoli
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome
I. Spisso
Leonardo Corporate CTIO
F. Viola
GSSI representative
INTRO 1
15:30 17:15 Rajat Mittal
Johns Hopkins University, title TBC
Keynote 1
17:15 17:45 break at La Chalet della Villa, Villa Comunale L'Aquila
17:45 20:00

Students' Presentations

splash talk by the students
INTRO 2
20:00 22:00 Get-together drink / light dinner
Monday 13th July 2026: Morning (Day 2)
Topic: Introduction to HPC infrastructures
08:30 09:00

Introduction to the school on numerical methods for parallel CFD: aims and objectives

G. Amati
SuperComputing Applications and Innovation (SCAI) Department, CINECA
S. Pirozzoli
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome
I. Spisso
Leonardo Corporate CTIO
INTRO 3
09:00 11:00

A long journey to exascale: State of the art, pre-exascale and towards the exascale

G. Amati
SuperComputing Applications and Innovation (SCAI) Department, CINECA
HPC 1
11:00 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 13:00

Is quantum computing ready for fluid dynamics?

M. Bernaschi
Istituto Applicazioni del Calcolo, IAC-CNR, Rome, Italy
Keynote 2
13:00 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 16:00

(fast) re-cap of parallel computing paradigms on standard and heterogeous architectures:

MPI, OpenMP, GpGPU
G. Amati, A. Ceci
SuperComputing Applications and Innovation (SCAI) Department, CINECA
HPC 2
16:00 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 18:15

Intro to HPC and programming: MPI, OpenMP, GPUs

G. Amati, A. Ceci
HANDS-ON 1
Tuesday 14th July 2026 (Day 3)
Topic: CFD data driven (Taraneh Sayadi half-day)
08:50 09:00 Introduction INTRO 4
09:00 11:00

Data-driven models for unsteady flows

T. Sayadi
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Paris (CNAM – Paris)
CFD1
11:00 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 13:00

Hands-on on CFD 

HANDS-ON 2
13:00 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 16:30 Sponsors' Presentations (2 h) SPONSORS
16:30 19:30 Guided Tour, city centre of L'Aquila
20:00 22:00 Social dinner
Wednesday 15th July 2026 (Day 4)
Topic: Multi-phase FLow
08:50 09:00 Introduction INTRO 5
09:00 13:00

Physics and high-performance computation of turbulent flows with interfaces

A. Soldati
Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Vienna
CFD2
The modelling and the computational issues involved in the accurate simulation of turbulent multiphase flows will be presented. The available numerical models/ methods currently used will be described, with a specific focus on the phase field method, which will be discussed in connection with interface resolved simulations of bubbles- and droplets-laden turbulent flows.
During the lesson Coffee break
13:00 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 18:00

Multiphase flows: hands-on session

A. Roccon
Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Vienna
HANDS-ON 3
The most recent high-performance computing architectures, parallelization techniques, and scientific visualization tools will be presented in connection with the use of computational methods of interface resolving simulations of turbulent flows.
During the hands-on sessions, students will have the opportunity to test the different methodologies and tools.
During the lesson Coffee break
Thursday 16th July 2026 (Day 5)
Topic: Compressible flow
08:50 09:00 Introduction INTRO 6
09:00 10:30

Numerical Methods for compressible/high-speed flow I

S. Pirozzoli
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
CFD3
10:30 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 13:00

Numerical Methods for compressible/high-speed flow II

D. Modesti
GSSI
CFD4
13:00 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 16:00

Hands-on session on compressible/high-speed flows I

M. Bernardini
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
F. Salvadore
HPC Department
CINECA, Rome, Italy
HANDS-ON 4
16:00 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 18:00

Hands-on session on perfomance portability of STREAM II

M. Bernardini
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
F. Salvadore
HPC Department
CINECA, Rome, Italy
HANDS-ON 5
Friday 17 July 2026 (Day 6)
Topic: Immersed boundary methods
08:50 09:00 Introduction INTRO 7
09:00 11:00

Immersed-boundary methods for complex flow simulations

R. Verzicco
Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata
CFD5
11:00 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 13:00

Immersed-boundary methods for complex flow simulations

F. Viola
Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata
CFD6
13:00 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 16:00

Immersed-boundary simulations hands-on

S. Leonardi
University of Texas @ Dallas
HANDS-ON 6
16:00 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 18:00

Immersed-boundary simulations hands-on

S. Leonardi
University of Texas @ Dallas
HANDS-ON 7
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