Dr. Olivier Cabrit

Optimisation of the thermal design of an high-efficiency wood-burning cook stove.

Topic: “Supercomputer simulations and high fidelity experimental measurements for a quantum leap in understanding of wall-turbulence.” - CFD simulations of blood flow in arteries for the magnetic targeting of drug delivery (OpenFOAM) - development and implementation of spectrally/stochastically accurate wall-turbulence models (C) - in-depth analysis of measurements performed in wind-tunnels, rivers, and the atmosphere - development of novel algorithms for the understanding of wall-roughness (Python)

Topic: “CFD aerothermal large-eddy simulations (LES) for Internal Combustion Engines.” - development and implementation of turbulence and heat-transfer models for large-eddy simulation (LES) - accompaniment of an experimental campaign led at IFP Énergies Nouvelles for model validation - management of wall-model algorithms for the CFD-software (AVBP)

Topic: “Heat and Mass transfer modelling of the flow inside Solid Rocket Motor nozzles (Ariane 5).” - CFD simulations and 1D/2D modelling of complex flows: heat/mass transfer, turbulence, combustion, radiation, high-Mach number, wall erosion - CFD software development (Fortran, Python) - development of a novel multiphysics strategy for the thermal design of solid rocket motor nozzles (software coupling)

Thermal and mechanical design of the turbine blades of helicopter engines. - 1D/2D modelling - Software development of and in-house preliminary design tool (C) - Model validation with ANSYS

Thermal study of the A400M engine starter.

Numerical simulations (Computational Fluid Dynamics) of heat and mass transfer inside the nozzle of the Ariane 5 boosters.

Turbulence, Thermodynamics, Combustion, Multi-phase Flows

Naval Construction, Wind Turbine

Solid Mechanics, Energetics