CFD for combustion safety – conference at CERFACS, March 21st.
9 February 2023
The CFD for Combustion Safety meeting will take place at CERFACS. Registration is free here: The objective of the meeting is to gather experts in the field of simulations of safety scenarios associated to combustion (fires, explosions, flame-wall interactions, inhibition...), to exchange information and build collaborations on the fundamentals of combustion safety. The web site is :
Safran R&T prize
6 January 2023
Congratulations to Thibault Duranton for his award for the best presentation in 180s, in the Aerodynamics and Combustion category, at the Safran AE R&T Day on January 5, 2023, for his thesis entitled "Advanced modeling of multi-perforated plates for large-scale simulations of new-generation aircraft engines".
6th Workshop on Coupling Technologies for Earth System Models (CW2023)
21 December 2022
CERFACS and Argonne National Laboratory organise the "6th Workshop on Coupling Technologies for Earth System Models (CW2023)" on January 18-20, 2023 at the “Centre International de Conférences” on Météo-France campus in Toulouse, France. The workshop aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners in the field of coupling infrastructure for Earth System Models. This workshop is the sixth in the series, started in 2010 in Toulouse and followed by Boulder USA (2013), Manchester UK (2015), Princeton USA (2017) and virtual (2020). Topics relevant to the workshop include, but are not limited to: Coupling technology latest developments Use of Coupling Technologies in ESMs or other climate and weather-related coupled systems: successes and failures, original or ground-breaking applications Computational performance of Couplers and Coupled Systems Coupling at exascale on heterogeneous systems. Science of Coupling and Coupling Strategies Integration of coupling technologies into workflows Interaction of data assimilation and coupling technologies Software development processes for complex coupled systems: Approaches for testing of complex coupled models, how code chages are made, build system, configuration system. All details can be found on the CW2023 web page.
Aeronautics & Space Awards: Carlos Pérez Arroyo, Jérôme Dombard and Gabriel Staffelbach are awarded the Vermeil medal
2 December 2022
Formal Session 2022 of the Air and Space Academy Friday, December 9, 2:00-6:00 pm 📌 in person at the Salle des Illustres - Mairie de Toulouse 💻 and in visio ✅ Mandatory registration (face-to-face or visio): During the formal public session of the Air and Space Academy 2022, which will take place on Friday, December 9, starting at 2:00 pm, Salle des Illustres, Hôtel de Ville de Toulouse, in face-to-face and remote sessions, the Vermeil Medal will be awarded (at 5:15 pm) to Carlos PÉREZ-ARROYO, Jérôme DOMBARD, and Gabriel STAFFELBACH to honor the excellence of their work in the realization of the FULLEST project, the first high-fidelity simulation of an aircraft engine.
CERFACS cited in l’Usine Nouvelle, Industrie et Technologies
25 November 2022
The work of CERFACS, in collaboration with SAFRAN, on the hybridization of physical simulation software with machine learning techniques, has been cited in the magazine l'Usine Nouvelle, and is included in a detailed write-up called "Simulation and machine learning combine their strengths" in the magazine Industries et Technologies this month. This work, supervised at CERFACS by Corentin Lapeyre, and at SAFRAN by Stéphane Richard, is at the forefront of developments in terms of exploiting artificial intelligence tools for the simulation and design of physical systems.
Florent Duchaine has been selected as Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Turbomachinery
2 November 2022
Florent Duchaine, researcher in the CFD Team of CERFACS, has been selected as Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Turbomachinery for the period 2022-2025
Paul CASEAU 2022 thesis prize for Rem-Sophia MOURADI, in the framework of a Cerfacs EDF R&D collaboration
31 October 2022
On November 9, 2022, Rem-Sophia MOURADI will receive the Paul CASEAU prize in the field of modeling and numerical simulation for her thesis "Non-linear data-driven modelling on multidimensional fields : an application to hydro-morphodynamic coastal flows". This research work was carried out in the framework of a collaboration between the Cerfacs-CNRS laboratory "CECI" (Climate, Environment, Couplings and Uncertainties) and the "National Laboratory for Hydraulics ans Environment" (LNHE) of EDF R&D. The thesis was supervised by Olivier THUAL (Cerfacs) and Cédric GOEURY (LNHE)
Scientific mediation on the theme “Climate: let’s talk about it” during the Fête de la Science in Toulouse
31 October 2022
As part of the Fête de la Science 2022, which this year focused on adaptation to climate change and the levers of action to limit it, the Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (UFTMiP) organized a four-day program on the theme "Climate: are we talking about it? Christophe CASSOU, Director of Research at CECI (Cerfacs / CNRS), participated on October 13 in the round table "Climate change: understanding to act" at the Paul Sabatier Campus. This is one of the many scientific mediation activities that Christophe carries out in the framework of his missions as a CNRS researcher (training for elected officials and journalists, intervention in schools, universities, companies, etc.). Christophe has published three books: "Météo et climat : ce n'est pas la même chose" (Paris, Le Pommier 2013) in young people's literature, "Parlons climat en 30 questions" (Paris, La documentation française, 2015) and an edition released this month of June 2022
CERFACS receives the EPSC (European Process Safety Center) 2021 prize in Antwerpen
10 October 2022
T. Poinsot has received the EPSC prize on the behalf of the CFD CERFACS team in Antwerpen during the last conference of the EPSC in september 2022. This prize recognizes the work of CERFACS in the field of simulations of explosions.
Medal of the Academy of Air and Space: 3 CERFACS researchers awarded !
11 July 2022
The Air and Space Academy awarded Carlos Pérez Arroyo, Gabriel Staffelbach and Jérôme Dombard with the Vermeil medal 2022, to honor the excellence of their work in the realization of the FULLEST project, the first high-fidelity simulation of an aircraft engine. Thanks to PRACE for awarding the access to the Joliot-Curie supercomputer (GENCI hosted at CEA/TGCC) and to DGAC for the funding of the ATOM project (No 2018-39) led by SAFRAN Tech. FULLEST also benefited from developments done in European projects: EXCELLERAT (H2020 823691) and EPEEC (H2020 801051).
ROLAND GLOWINSKI CONFERENCE IN PARIS FROM JULY 5th to 7th
4 July 2022
CERFACS will participate to the Paris meeting dedicated to the memory of Roland Glowinski from July 5th to 7th. Thierry Poinsot will present the advances of HPC in the field of energy and combustion. Roland Glowinski was CERFACS direcfor for 3 years in the 90s and largely shaped present activities of our research center.
