Mini-bio
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 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 the M2P2 lab in Marseille, France.
Curriculum Vitae
CURRENT POSITION
Research fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS,
TONIC team leader at M2P2, Marseille, France.
Education
2019 – H.D.R., Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France.
Jury: L. Vervisch, T. Poinsot, V. Giovangigli, E. Oran, P. Domingo, P. Sagaut, S. Gavrilyuk (rapporteurs).
2012 – PhD europeus, cum laude, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
Reduced-kinetic mechanisms for hydrogen and syngas combustion including autoignition,
Advisors: A.L. Sánchez, C. Jiménez.
Jury : F. Williams, A. Liñán, P. Clavin, B. Cuenot, V. Kurdyumov
2007 – Master of Science in Engineering (double degree), Aeronautical and vehicle engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.
2007 – Ingénieur de l’École Polytechnique (X2003), Palaiseau, France.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2014 – 2016 – Post-doctoral researcher, M2P2, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France
2013 – 2014 – Post-doctoral researcher, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
2013 – 2016 – Scientific consulting, RS2N, Saint Zacharie, France
2012 – 2013 – Ignition specialist engineer, Space Engine division, Snecma Safran, Vernon, France
2009 – 2012 – Marie Curie early-stage researcher (project myplanet), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
See up-to-date list on Google Scholar
[1] P. Boivin, C. Jiménez, A. L. Sánchez, and F. A. Williams, “An explicit reduced mechanism for H2–air combustion,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 517–523, 2011.
[2] P. Boivin, C. Jiménez, A. L. Sánchez, and F. A. Williams, “A four-step reduced mechanism for syngas combustion,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 158, no. 6, pp. 1059–1063, 2011.
[3] P. Boivin, A. Dauptain, C. Jiménez, and B. Cuenot, “Simulation of a supersonic hydrogen–air autoignition-stabilized flame using reduced chemistry,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 159, no. 4, pp. 1779– 1790, 2012.
[4] P. Boivin, A. L. Sánchez, and F. A. Williams, “Explicit analytic prediction for hydrogen–oxygen ignition times at temperatures below crossover,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 159, no. 2, pp. 748–752, 2012.
[5] A. L. Sánchez, E. Fernández-Tarrazo, P. Boivin, A. Liñán, and F. A. Williams, “Ignition time of hydrogen–air diffusion flames,” Comptes Rendus Mecanique, vol. 340, no. 11-12, pp. 882–893, 2012.
[6] P. Boivin, A. L. Sánchez, and F. A. Williams, “Four-step and three-step systematically reduced chemistry for wide-range H2–air combustion problems,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 160, no. 1, pp. 76–82, 2013.
[7] T. Bridel-Bertomeu and P. Boivin, “Explicit chemical timescale as a substitute for tabulated chemistry in a H2–O2 turbulent flame simulation,” Combustion Science and Technology, vol. 187, no. 5, pp. 739–746, 2015.
[8] L. Veggi and P. Boivin, “Explicit formulation of the reactivity of hydrogen, methane and decane,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 162, no. 3, pp. 580–585, 2015.
[9] R. Saurel, P. Boivin, and O. Le Métayer, “A general formulation for cavitating, boiling and evaporating flows,” Computers & Fluids, vol. 128, pp. 53–64, 2016.
[10] P. Boivin, A. Sánchez, and F. Williams, “Analytical prediction of syngas induction times,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 176, pp. 489–499, 2017.
[11] A. Chiapolino, P. Boivin, and R. Saurel, “A simple phase transition relaxation solver for liquid–vapor flows,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, vol. 83, no. 7, pp. 583–605, 2017. fld.4282.
[12] A. Chiapolino, P. Boivin, and R. Saurel, “A simple and fast phase transition relaxation solver for compressible multicomponent two-phase flows,” Computers & Fluids, vol. 150, pp. 31–45, 2017.
[13] P. Boivin and F. A. Williams, “Extension of a wide-range three-step hydrogen mechanism to syngas,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 196, pp. 85 – 87, 2018.
[14] Y. Feng, M. Tayyab, and P. Boivin, “A lattice-boltzmann model for low-mach reactive flows,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 196, pp. 249 – 254, 2018.
[15] P. Boivin, M. Cannac, and O. Le Métayer, “A thermodynamic closure for the simulation of multiphase reactive flows,” International Journal of Thermal Sciences, vol. 137, pp. 640 – 649, 2019.
[16] X. Deng, P. Boivin, and F. Xiao. A new formulation for two-wave riemann solver accurate at contact interfaces. Physics of Fluids, 31(4):046102, 2019.
[17] G. Farag, P. Boivin, and P. Sagaut. Interaction of two-dimensional spots with a heat releasing/absorbing shock wave: linear interaction approximation results. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 871:865–895, 2019.
[18] Y. Feng, P. Boivin, J. Jacob, and P. Sagaut. Hybrid recursive regularized lattice boltzmann simulation of humid air with application to meteorological flows. Physical Review E, 100(2):023304, 2019.
[19] Y. Feng, P. Boivin, J. Jacob, and P. Sagaut. Hybrid recursive regularized thermal lattice boltzmann model for high subsonic compressible flows. Journal of Computational Physics, 394:82 – 99, 2019.
[20] M. Tayyab, S. Zhao, Y. Feng, and P. Boivin, “Hybrid regularized lattice-boltzmann modelling of premixed and non-premixed combustion processes,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 211, pp. 173–184, 2020.
[21] S. Zhao, G. Farag, P. Boivin, and P. Sagaut, “Toward fully conservative hybrid lattice boltzmann methods for compressible flows,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 32, no. 12, p. 126118, 2020.
[22] M. Tayyab, B. Radisson, C. Almarcha, B. Denet, and P. Boivin, “Experimental and numerical lattice- boltzmann investigation of the darrieus-landau instability,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 221, pp. 103–109, 2020.
[23] G. Farag, S. Zhao, T. Coratger, P. Boivin, G. Chiavassa, and P. Sagaut, “A pressure-based regularized lattice-boltzmann method for the simulation of compressible flows,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 32, no. 6, p. 066106, 2020.
[24] X. Deng and P. Boivin, “Diffuse interface modelling of reactive multi-phase flows applied to a sub-critical cryogenic jet,” Applied Mathematical Modelling, vol. 84, pp. 405 –424, 2020.
[25] M. Tayyab, S. Zhao, and P. Boivin, “Lattice-boltzmann modelling of a turbulent bluff-body stabilized flame,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 33, no. 3, p. 031701, 2021.
[26] I. Cheylan, S. Zhao, P. Boivin, and P. Sagaut, “Compressible pressure-based lattice-boltzmann applied to humid air with phase change,” Applied Thermal Engineering, p. 116868, 2021.
[27] G. Farag, S. Zhao, G. Chiavassa, and P. Boivin, “Consistency study of lattice-boltzmann schemes macro- scopic limit,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 33, no. 3, p. 031701, 2021.
Book chapter
[1] R. Saurel, O. Le Métayer, and P. Boivin, “From cavitating to boiling flows,” in Cavitation Instabilities and Rotordynamic Effects in Turbopumps and Hydroturbines, pp. 259–282, Springer, 2017.