Mejdi Azaïez is a specialist in computational fluid mechanics and applied mathematics. He was previously a senior lecturer at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse and is currently a full professor at the Bordeaux Institute of Technology. His research activities are primarily devoted to the numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations. Michel Deville is an emeritus professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he taught computational fluid mechanics. He is a member of ONERA's High Scientific Council. Ernest Mund was a visiting professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, following a career in nuclear reactor physics and applied mathematics at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research and at the Université catholique de Louvain. He was granted emeritus status at both institutions in 2006.