Domain: turbulent combustion, LBM

Project: Advanced Lattice-Boltzmann Modelling of Combustion CIFRE grant, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR)

Lattice Boltzmann (LB) solvers are becoming an ever more attractive alternative to traditional Navier-Stokes solvers. Reactive flow modeling in the LB framework, however, remain relatively marginal within the scientific community: most Lattice-Boltzmann schemes are limited to athermal flows.

Based on recent developments at M2P2, simulating reacting flows now seem within our grasp. A significant research effort is however required to achieve this target on realistic flows, e.g. including multi-level grid capabilities, the derivation of novel boundary conditions, turbulence models. In particular, applying and adapting the method to simulate the industrial partner’s combustion chambers will be the central topic of the PhD topic.

The work will be carried out part time at M2P2 and within the research department of the industrial partner and will involve participating in an experimental campaign to validate the developments.

The candidate will have a MSc or Engineering degree in computational fluid dynamics. The numerical developments required will involve team-working skills to interact frequently with other postdocs/PhD students working on the same code, software engineers, associated industrials and supervisors.

Domain: turbulent combustion, LBM 

Project: Advanced Lattice-Boltzmann Modelling of Combustion Méthodes Avancées Lattice-Boltzmann En Combustion (MALBEC) funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR)

Lattice Boltzmann (LB) solvers are becoming an ever more attractive alternative to traditional Navier-Stokes solvers. Reactive flow modeling in the LB framework, however, remain relatively marginal within the scientific community: most Lattice-Boltzmann schemes are limited to athermal flows.

Based on recent developments at M2P2, simulating reacting flows now seem within our grasp. A significant research effort is however required to achieve this target on realistic flows, e.g. including multi-level grid capabilities, the derivation of novel boundary conditions, turbulence models. 

Development of such methods within the field of combustion is the topic of this post-doctoral position. 

The candidate will have a PhD in computational fluid dynamics, with experience in either LBM or numerical combustion. The numerical developments required will involve team-working skills to interact frequently with other postdocs/PhD students working on the same code, software engineers, associated industrials and supervisors. 

Send an application to: Pierre.Boivin@m2p2.fr including:

- A detailed CV 


- A cover letter 


Starting date: when available, from Oct. 2020 to Feb. 2021.

Contract duration: one year, renewable every year. 

Deadline to apply: 20/12/2020 

Domain: computational fluid dynamics, aeronautics, aerodynamics, heat transfer

Project: Advanced Lattice-Boltzmann Understandings for Multiphysics Simulations (ALBUMS) funded by Airbus, Safran, Renault and the French National Research Agency (ANR)

Lattice Boltzmann (LB) solvers are becoming an ever more attractive alternative to traditional Navier-Stokes solvers. Compressible flow modeling in the LB framework, however, remain relatively marginal within the scientific community: most Lattice-Boltzmann schemes are limited to low Mach number to due to an intrinsic O(u3) numerical error.

Based on recent developments at M2P2 [1], simulating flows for Mach significantly higher than 0.3 now seem within our grasp. A significant research effort is however required to achieve this target on realistic flows, e.g. including the derivation of novel boundary conditions, turbulence models, shock capturing schemes.