Current Position
I am 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 Thermophysics, Radiation and Fluid Mechanics for Solar Facilities.
Research activities
- Interaction of interfaces and thermal gradients with turbulence
- Numerical simulation and model for turbulent flow
- Multiscale approach:
- Computational fluid dynamics: direct numerical simulation, large eddy simulation, Reynolds Average Navier-Stokes
- Experiments: Stereocopic Particule Image Velocimetry, solar high flux
- Lattice Boltzmann Method
- High temperature solar receiver
Awards
Leopold Escande thesis prize, 2007 (best theses conducted within the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse).
French scientific excellence grant, 2010 (PES).
