He deserves our most sincere congratulations for this prestigious award. This success honours the quality of both the thesis and the research carried out in the School, and we thank him for this. It is a great satisfaction for the CEMEF, and also for Armines, these works having been supported by a consortium of industrials. Finally, the whole CEMEF team is quite proud of Elie’s success !
Elie Hachem's work is based on the use of Finite Element methods to simulate the heat transfer coupled with turbulent flows in industrial furnaces. The model is highly complex: incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid, with K-epsilon turbulence models, heat transfer by conduction, advection, and radiation. This work involves state-of-the-art discretization strategies to simulate this complex problem: stabilized Finite Elements, Shock Capturing Petrov-Galerkin method), level set approach, anisotropic mesh adaptation. All aspects are validated with care and the overall approach makes it possible to perform large scale computations, which give a full description of a whole industrial furnace.
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