Victor Baconnet

I am a PhD student in Computational Fluid Dynamics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. I joined the Department of Engineering Mechanics in December 2022, where I have been working on stability and transition under the supervision of Prof. Dan Henningson. I am also part of SeRC and the Linné FLOW Center. My office is located at Osquars Backe 18, floor 7, office 2717.

My research projects range from applied CFD in low-pressure turbines to canonical cases where we study free-stream turbulence-induced flow transition on flat plates. In December 2025, I presented my Licentiate thesison secondary flows in low-pressure turbines.

We run our simulations on large supercomputers in Europe using the GPU-accelerated spectral element solver Neko, to which I am also an active contributor.

From 2023 to 2025, I acted as PhD Student Representative (PAD) for the Doctoral Programme in Engineering Mechanics and sat on the PhD Student Councilof the SCI School.

Previously, I worked at The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) on a Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model for wind energy forecasting, under the supervision of Prof. Roland Stull.

I also have experience in CFD modelling for coastal engineering. During my time as a CFD Engineer at ACRI-IN (Sophia-Antipolis, France), I built digital twins for both experimental setups and life-sized coastal structures.

I hold an Engineering Diploma (Diplôme d'Ingénieur) in Mechanical Engineering from Polytech Lyon and an M.Sc. in Fluid Mechanics from Université Lyon 1 & Ecole Centrale de Lyon, both obtained in 2021. I am also a Transport Canada licenced Private Pilot and did my training in Vancouver, Canada.