Here is a list of the researchers involved in the project (most part of M2P2‘s TONIC team). Active collaborations are also indicated.
Combustion experimentalist & theorist
ContactJosé Luis is a CIFRE PhD student working for Fives-Pillard. He investigates the stability of industrial H2 burners using LBM.
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I graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and KTH in 2007. I then worked for a year at PSA Peugeot-Citroen in Computational Fluid Dynamics applied to external aerodynamics before starting in 2009 my PhD under the supervision of Carmen Jiménez and Antonio Sánchez. My PhD research focused on reduced chemistry of hydrogen and syngas, leading to mechanisms now used in LES/DNS CFD computations by various research teams.
In 2012, I accepted the rocket engine ignition specialist position at Snecma (now ArianeGroup) – European Space Agency’s main contractor for cryogenic rocket engines. There I designed igniters and carried out ignition studies, whilst being in charge of a number of scientific projects with public labs.
Having realized there the lack of models being able to accurately represent multiphase and reactive flows simultaneously, I left the private sector to focus my research on this issue. I am currently a permanent CNRS research fellow, at M2P2 lab in Marseille, France.
Clara Carricajo started a PhD about turbulence predictions in fluid dynamics around pods at hypersonic speeds in law-pressurized tubes, in late 2021. The pods are hyperloop systems, which are levitating trains, theoretically running at more than 1200km/h in confined areas. This topic takes into account algorithms, fluid mechanics and CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), software simulation (OpenFOAM). Her research interests also include vactrain, tube transportation and supersonic compressible flows.
She worked for IKOS company for one year just after my Aerospace Systems Engineering Specialized Master at ISAE Supaero, Toulouse.
Her PhD Supervisors during the 3 years are Pierre Boivin & Pierre Sagaut.
Full Professor at Ecole Centrale de Marseille
Co-advisor of G. Farag
Jean-Louis is an expert on fire modelling, soot production and radiative transfers.
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Xi Deng joined the research group after receiving his Ph.D. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is currently working on accurate and practical numerical methods for compressible reactive multiphase flows. His research interests also include high order schemes, unstructured grids and high performance computing.
After one year and two publications, Xi Deng accepted a post-doctoral position in Imperial College, London.
Gabriel Farag joined the research group after completing a master degree in Fluid Mechanics from Paris-Sud University.
His research mainly focuses on the improvement of the modelization of compressible flows using the Lattice Boltzmann Method and on linear analysis applied to shock/perturbation interaction.