Current Position
I am First Class Associate Professor HDR (accreditation to supervise research) of fluid dynamics and thermal transfer in the laboratory PROcesses, Materials and Solar Energy (PROMES-CNRS, UPR 8521 ) at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD ), France. My main research interest concerns the modeling of physical coupling between turbulence , multiphase flow and thermal gradient .
I am study director of Sup'EnR . Sup'EnR is a French engineering school dedicated to renewable energy.
I am team leader of Centrale Solaire de Prochaine Génération .
Job offers
Numerical Simulations of Heat Transfer in Fluidized Beds - Application to Concentrated Solar Power Plants
Teaching
Applied Fluid Mechanics (TEFER Professional Degree, 15 students, 26 hours)
Heat exchangers (L3 Engineering sciences license, 12 students, 30 hours)
Heat Transfers (M1 master Solar Energy, 15 students, 32 hours)
Advanced Radiative Transfers (M2 master Solar Energy, 10 students, 12 hours)
Fluid Mechanics (L3 engineering school Sup'EnR, 24 students, 24 hours)
Dynamic and thermal simulation (M1 engineering school Sup'EnR, 15 students, 30 hours)
Energy software (M2 engineering school Sup'EnR, 24 students, 24 hours)
Wind energy (L3 engineering school Sup'EnR, 24 students, 24 hours)
VIDEO
Simulation of a thermocline storage carried out by students from the Sup'EnR engineering school.
Research activities
Applications
Concentrated solar technology (CST)
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)
Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP)
High temperature solar receiver
Nuclear power plant
Methods
High Performance Computing (HPC) and model for turbulent flow
Multiscale approach
Particle Resolved Simulation, Euler-Euler approach (Two-Fluid Method)
Direct Numerical Simulation, Large Eddy Simulation, Reynolds Average Navier-Stokes
Computational fluid dynamics
Finite Volume Method
Front-tracking and Cut-cell
Low Mach number equations
Artificial Compressible Method and Lattice Boltzmann Method
Experiments : solar high flux, Stereocopic Particule Image Velocimetry (SPIV), Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF)
Flows and physical mechanisms
Turbulent channel flows
Fluidized beds
Bubbly flows
Horizontal buoyant flows
Very anisothermal flows
Interaction between velocity, temperature and interfaces
Awards
Leopold Escande thesis prize , 2007 (best PhD thesis conducted within the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse ).
French scientific excellence grant, 2022 (PEDR ).
