CFD PhD Defenses 2025
- Hammachi, R.. Direct numerical simulation of boundary layer transition control via acoustic metasurfaces. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (16/01/2025).
 - Lesaffre, T.. Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) impact on engine operability : modeling and simulation. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (21/01/2025).
 - Coulon, V.. Turbulent combustion of lean hydrogen/air premixed flames : from numerical assessment of Lewis number effects to deep learning modeling for large eddy simulations. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (29/01/2025).
 - Bogopolsky, G.. Exploration of methods for the numerical simulation of Hall thrusters. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (10/02/2025).
 - Meziat-Ramirez, F.. Large Eddy Simulations of hydrogen/air gas explosions in big-scale, complex geometries. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (04/03/2025).
 - Cizeron, M.. Wall modeling for Large-Eddy Simulations of turbomachinery flows. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (13/03/2025).
 - Vigot, G.. Graph Neural Networks for Hall-Effect Thrusters Modeling. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (14/03/2025).
 - Péden, B.. Large eddy simulation of atomization under evaporative and reactive conditions. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (24/03/2025).
 - Coudray, A.. Modelling and simulation of soot production under aero-engine conditions. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (03/04/2025).
 - Garnier, F.. Investigation of hydrogen jet flames structure and stabilization using Large-Eddy Simulation. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (24/04/2025).
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Sankurantripati, S.. High-Fidelity Numerical Modeling of UV-Based Mitigation Strategies for Airborne Virus transmissions in Enclosed Spaces. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (22/07/2025).
 
CFD HDR Defenses 2025
- Dounia, O.. Contribution to the modeling of reaction waves in confined media: application to novel combustion technologies and safety. HDR. CERFACS. (29/01/2025).
 - Riber, E.. Modélisation et simulation des flammes turbulentes diphasiques et de leurs polluants. HDR. Cerfacs. (26/06/2025).
 
CFD PhD Defenses 2024
- Noun, M.. Prediction and mitigation of cavity instabilities resulting from fluid-structure interactions. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (10/01/2024).
 - Mocquard, C.. Large Eddy Simulations of afterburner in fighter aircraft engines. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (22/01/2024).
 - Gentil, Y.. Modeling of combustion noise. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (30/01/2024).
 - Gianoli, T., Development of a Lattice-Boltzmann Method for Turbomachinery: Towards S-Duct Simulations. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP. Cerfacs. (17/05/2024).
 - Gioud, T.. Large Eddy Simulations for atomization in subcritical liquid rocket engines. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP. Cerfacs. (27/05/2024).
 - Duranton, T.. Advanced LES modelling of multiperforated plates for new generation aeronautic engines. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP. Cerfacs. (17/06/2024).
 - Detomaso, N.. Large Eddy Simulation of Constant Volume Combustion: numerical modeling for turbulent propagating flames in non homogeneous mixtures. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP. Cerfacs. (18/06/2024).
 - Hok, J. -J.. Modelling strategy for the Large-Eddy Simulation of lean hydrogen-air explosions. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP. Cerfacs. (19/06/2024).
 - Strempfl, P.. LES of Rotating Detonation Engines: Sensitivity and Physics. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP. Cerfacs. (04/09/2024).
 - Vanbersel, B.. Adaptive mesh refinement methods for large eddy simulations of gas explosions. PhD Thesis. Cerfacs. (05/09/2024).
 - Lameloise, E.. Modeling of the formation of soot in gas turbines taking into account the morphology of the aggregates. PhD Thesis. Cerfacs. (13/09/2024).
 - Villard, J.. Numerical simulation of aluminum particle combustion. PhD Thesis. Cerfacs. (30/10/2024).
 - Naess, T.. Numerical prediction of nitric oxide formation in turbulent spray flames using Large Eddy Simulation. PhD Thesis. Cerfacs. (31/10/2024).
 - Werner, P.. Aerothermal Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Bore-Cooling Cavities in High-Pressure Compressors. PhD Thesis. Cerfacs. (06/11/2024).
 
CFD HDR Defense 2024
- Odier, N.. Contribution à la simulation aux grandes échelles pour les systèmes de production énergétiques. HDR. CERFACS. (14/11/2024).
 
CFD PhD Defenses 2023
- CRESPO-ANADON Javier – Large Eddy Simulation of Aircraft Engine Ignition under Relevant Operating Conditions and Application to the Spinning Combustion Technology – January 12, 2023
 - PESTRE Antoine – Numerical simulations of aeronautical engine ignitions under realistic high altitude conditions – January 12, 2023
 - NGUYEN Minh – Investigation of the Lattice Boltzmann Method for the Simulation of Turbine Active Clearance Control Systems. PhD Thesis. Aix-Marseille. (2023).
 - MARCHAL Thomas – Extension of the Spectral Difference method to combustion. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (20 April 2023).
 - WINGEL Christopher – Investigation of the RANS approach for the prediction of cooled turbine stage flows submitted to swirled hot streaks. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (8 September 2023).
 - DROZDA Luciano – On the development of data-driven numerical schemes in Computational Fluid Dynamics. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (12 September 2023).
 - CELLIER Antony – Large Eddy Simulation of lithium-ion battery fires for the diagnostic of thermal runaway. PhD Thesis. Ecole doctorale MEGEP – CERFACS. (22 September 2023).
 - MOUZE-MORNETTAS Antoine – Modelling and reduction of the LOx-Methane chemical kinetics for rocket engine applications. PhD Thesis. Energie, Matériaux, Sciences de la Terre et de l´univers – EMSTU. (10 October 2023).
 - GAUCHERAND Jessica – Direct Numerical Simulation of premixed ammonia/hydrogen flames: the effects of thermo-diffusive instabilities. PhD Thesis. Cerfacs. (November 2023).
 
CFD HDR Defenses 2023
- DAVILLER Guillaume – Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied to Aeroacoustics: From Numerical Methods to Flow Physics Analysis. HDR. Cerfacs. (7 June 2023).
 
CFD PhD Defenses 2022
- NADAKKAL APPUKUTAN Sreejith – Large Eddy Simulation of the steam cracking process in refinery furnaces – January 12, 2022 (abstract)
 - CHENG Lionel – Detailed Numerical Simulation of Multi-Dimensional Plasma Assisted Combustion – February 15, 2022 (abstract)
 - SHASTRY Varun – Simulation of multicomponent spray combustion in gas turbine engines – March 02, 2022 (abstract)
 - LAMIDEL David – Aerodynamic noise sources due to the tip flow in the fan stage of turbofan engines – April 01, 2022
 - AGOSTINELLI Walter – Assessment of Large Eddy Simulation in the Conjugate Heat Transfer context for engine operability: application to Hydrogen enrichment and Spinning Combustion Technology – April 07, 2022
 - BARLEON Nicolas – Detailed modeling and simulations of Nanosecond Repetitively Pulsed Discharges for Plasma-Assisted Combustion (PAC) – May 24, 2022
 - LAFARGE Thomas – Investigation of Lattice Boltzmann Methods applied to multiphase flows – June 23, 2022
 - BADHE Abhijeet – Low-order Thermoacoustic Network Modeling and Simulation of Spray Flame Transfer Function – July 19, 2022
 - WIRTZ Jonathan – Modelling the impact of fuel in aeronautical gas turbines – September 26, 2022 – video
 - ARGAWAL Shubham – Développement d’une méthodologie prédictive du refroidissement par film sur aubages – October 27, 2022
 - SENGUPTA Soumyo – Advanced methods for meshes in High Performance Computing of explosion simulation – November 22, 2022
 - GOUT Clovis – Mono-channel methods and modeling for LES of turbomachinery stage – December 2, 2022
 - AJURIA Ekhi – Accelerating fluid solvers using artificial intelligence techniques – December 5, 2022
 - GARCIA GUILLAMON Carlos – Modeling of Multipoint Fuel Injector for the Large Eddy Simulation of Aeronautical Combustion Chambers – December 12, 2022
 
CFD PhD Defenses 2021
- RENARD Florian – Hybrid Lattice Boltzmann Method for Compressible Flows – March 19, 2021 (abstract)
 - VEILLEUX Adèle – Extension of the spectral difference method to simplex cells and hybrid grids – March 24, 2021 (abstract)
 - ESNAULT Soizic – Large Eddy Simulations of Heat Transfer within Aircraft Engine Acoustic Treatments – March 31, 2021 (abstract)
 - THOMAS Martin – Combustor – turbine interactions: hot spot migration and thermal environment prediction for a better understanding and design of helicopter engines – May 28, 2021 (abstract)
 - ASTOUL Thomas – Towards improved lattice Boltzmann aeroacoustic simulations with non-uniform grids: application to landing gears noise prediction, June 17, 2021 (Abstract)
 - SCHUSTER Dominik -Large scale simulations of swirling and particle-laden flows using the Lattice-Boltzmann Method, July 13th, 2021 (Abstract)
 - CAZÈRES Quentin – Analysis and reduction of chemical kinetics for combustion applications, July 13th, 2021 (Abstract)
 - CARMONA Julien – Modelling of two-phase flow phenomena in aeronautical Airblast injectors, 16 September 2021(Abstract)
 - BLANCHARD Simon – Multi-physics Large-Eddy Simulation of methane oxy-combustion in Liquid Rocket Engines, Septembre 22nd, 2021 (Abstract)
 - VILLAFANA Willca – “Numerical Particle-In-Cell studies of Hall thrusters using unstructured grids. “, October 21, 2021. (Abstract)
 - DEGRIGNY Johan – “Towards the Computational Prediction of Low-Speed Buffet: Improved Wall Modeling for the Lattice-Boltzmann Method”,November 9, 2021.(Abstract)
 - MARTIN Benjamin – “Numerical methods and boundary conditions for Large-Eddy Simulation of turbomachinery multi-component coupling “, December 13, 2021. (Abstract)
 
CFD PhD Defenses 2020
- HARNIEH Maël – Prediction of the loss generation in anisothermal compressible flows applied to Nozzle Guide Vane with the Large Eddy Simulations – january 12, 2020 (abstract)
 - LAURENT Charlélie – Low-Order Modeling and High-Fidelity Simulations for the Prediction of Combustion Instabilities in Liquid-Rocket Engines and Gas Turbines – june 19, 2020 (abstract)
 - QUEGUINEUR Matthieu – Stability and control of unsteady phenomena in rotor/stator cavities using Large Eddy Simulation – june 26, 2020 (abstract)
 - Fabien DUPUY – Reduced Order Models and Large Eddy Simulation for Combustion Instabilities in aeronautical Gas Turbines – june 30, 2020 (abstract)
 - GALLEN Lucien – Prediction of soot particles in Gas Turbine Combustors using Large Eddy Simulation – july 1st, 2020 (abstract)
 - MALÉ Quentin – Numerical Investigation of Pre-Chamber Ignition in Internal Combustion Engines – december 11, 2020 (abstract)
 
CFD PhD Defenses 2019
- CAMPET Robin – Simulation and optimization of steam cracking processes – january 17, 2019 (abstract) (video)
 - DUPUIS Romain – Surrogate models coupled with machine learning to approximate complex physical phenomena involving aerodynamic and aerothermal simulations. – february 4, 2019 (abstract) (video)
 - GROSNICKEL Thomas – Large Eddy Simulations to predict internal turbine blade cooling flows – february 11, 2019 (abstract)
 - MUSCAT Laurent – Coupling of time integration schemes for compressible unsteady flows – march 12, 2019 (abstract)(video)
 - CATCHIRAYER Mathieu – WMLES, wall-model, boundary layer, turbulence, turbomachinery – march 27, 2019 (abstract)
 - JONCQUIÈRES Valentin – Numerical model and simulation of Hall effect thrusters – april 12, 2019 (abstract)
 - FIORE Maxime – Influence of inter-disc cavity flow on turbine aerodynamics – may 7, 2018 (abstract)
 - ROY Pamphile – Uncertainty Quantification in High Dimensional Problem – may 14, 2019 (abstract)
 - COLLIN-BASTIANI Félix – Modeling and Large-Eddy Simulations of Two-Phase Ignition in Gas Turbines – may 28, 2019 (abstract)
 - ROCHETTE Bastien – Modelisation and simulation of two-phase flow turbulent combustion in aeronautical engines – june 25, 2019 (abstract)
 - WISSOCQ Gauthier- Investigation of lattice Boltzmann methods for turbomachinery secondary air system simulations- december 4, 2019 (abstract) (video)
 
CFD PhD Defenses 2018
- FERAND Mélissa – Numerical modeling of far-field turbofan-engine combustion noise – february 6, 2018 (abstract)
 - COREIXAS Christophe – High-order extension of the recursive regularized Lattice Boltzmann Method – february 22, 2018 (abstract)(video)
 - DOUNIA Omar – Numerical investigation of gas explosion phenomena in confined and obstructed channels – april 23, 2018 (abstract)
 - POTIER Luc – Large Eddy Simulation of the combustion and heat transfer in sub-critical rocket engines – may 24, 2018 (abstract)
 - Dario MAESTRO – Large Eddy Simulations of the interactions between flames and thermal phenomena: application to wall heat transfer and combustion control – september 27, 2018 (abstract)
 - BIZZARI Romain – Aerodynamic and thermal modelling of effusion cooling in LES – november 5, 2018 (abstract) (video)
 
CFD PhD Defenses 2017
- MARINO Morgane – Comprehensive analysis of the Fenestron® aerodynamics using advanced numerical simulations – april 11, 2017 (abstract)
 - NDIAYE Aïssatou – Uncertainty Quantification for the prediction of thermo-acoustic instabilities in gas turbine combustors – april 18, 2017 2017 (abstract)
 - LACASSAGNE Laura – Numerical simulations and linear stability analysis of corner vortex shedding in solid rocket motors – april 21, 2017 (abstract) (vidéo)
 - NI Franchine – Accounting for complex flow-acoustic interactions in a 3D thermo-acoustic Helmholtz solver – april 24, 2017 (abstract)
 - VANHAREN Julien – High-order numerical methods for unsteady flows around complex geometries – may 16, 2017 (abstract)(video)
 - SHUM KIVAN Francis – Large Eddy Simulation of spray flames and modelling of non-premixed combustion – june 15, 2017(abstract)
 - FELDEN Anne – Development of Analytically Reduced Chemistries (ARC) and applications in Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of turbulent combustion – june 30, 2017 (abstract)
 - DAROUKH Majd – Effects of distortion on modern turbofan tonal noise – july 6, 2017 (abstract)(video)
 - BECERRIL Cesar – Simulation of noise emitted by a reactive flow – september 19, 2017 (abstract) (video)
 - SEGUI-TROTH Luis – Multi-physics coupled simulations of gas turbines – november 14, 2017 (abstract)(video)
 - DUCHAINE Florent – High Performance Code Coupling for Multiphysics and Multicomponent Simulations In Fluid Dynamics – Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, november 27, 2017 (abstract)(video)
 - BIOLCHINI Romain – Study of temperature effects on subsonic jet noise by Large Eddy Simulation – december 12, 2017 (abstract)(video)
 - AILLAUD Pierre – Large Eddy Simulation for high-pressure turbine vane cooling systems – december 21, 2017 (abstract)(video)
 
CFD PhD Defenses 2016
- SADOUDI Yannis – Numerical simulation of Fan/Nacelle interaction under crosswind conditions – march 11, 2016 (abstract)
 - LABARRÈRE Laure – Theoretical and numerical study of the isochore combustion applied to the case of the thermoreacteur – march 21, 2016 (abstract)(video)
 - LE BRAS Sophie – Wall modeling and non-conforming grid interfaces for computational aeroacoustics with a high-order numerical approach – march 24, 2016 (abstract)
 - CAYOT Pierre – High order numerical schemes for Large-Eddy Simulation on unstructured grids – April 26, 2016 (abstract)
 - JARAVEL Thomas – Prediction of pollutants in gas turbines using Large-Eddy Simulation – April 28,2016 (abstract)(video)
 - BERGER Sandrine – Implementation of a coupled computational chain to the combustion chamber's heat transfer – June 20, 2016 (abstract)(video)
 - MOURET Gaëlle – Adaptation of phase-lagged boundary conditions to Large-Eddy Simulation in turbomachinery configuration – June 30, 2016 (abstract)
 - PÉREZ ARROYO Carlos – Large Eddy Simulations of a dual stream jet with shock-cells and noise emission analysis – november 2, 2016 (abstract)
 - BRIDEL-BERTOMEU Thibault – Investigation of Unsteady Phenomena in Rotor/Stator Cavities Using Large Eddy Simulation – thèse soutenue le november 21, 2016 (abstract)
 
CFD PhD Defenses 2015
- ESCLAPEZ Lucas – Numerical study of ignition and inter-sector flame propagation in gasturbine – may 22, 2015 (abstract)
 - GHANI Abdulla – LES of self-excited transverse combustion instabilities in perfectly-premixed and swirling spray flames – september 17, 2015 (abstract)
 - KOUPPER Charlie – Unsteady multi-component simulations dedicated to the impact of the combustion chamber on the turbine of aeronautical gas turbines – may 11, 2015 (abstract)
 - LAPEYRE Corentin – Numerical study of flame stability, stabilization and noise in a swirl-stabilized combustor under choked conditions – september 18, 2015 (abstract)(video)
 - LAHBIB Dorian – Aerothermal modeling of mutiperforated plate cooling for Large Eddy Simulations – december 17,2015 (abstract)
 - LIVEBARDON Thomas – Modeling of combustion in helicopter engines – september 18, 2015 (abstract)
 - MARI Raphaël – Influence of heat transfer on high pressure flame structure and stabilization in liquid rocket engines – june 25, 2015 (abstract)(video)
 - MISDARIIS Antony – Reduced kinetic schemes and thermal coupling for Large Eddy Simulations of knocking in piston engines – march 4, 2015 (abstract)(video)
 - PAPADOGIANNIS Dimitrios – Coupled Large Eddy Simulations of combustion chamber-turbine interactions – may 6, 2015 (abstract)(video)
 - PAULHIAC Damien – Modeling spray combustion in an aeronautical burner – april 30, 2015 (abstract)
 - ZHU Manqi – Large Eddy Simulation of thermal cracking in petroleum industry – may 5, 2015 (abstract)(video)
 
CFD PhD Defenses 2014