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01 March 2017
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SmartEole project: making better use of wind through smart rotors
The rapid development of wind energy production depends, to a great extent, on improving its energy efficiency and its economic profitability. To maximize performance and operating life spans, the
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A robust vehicle pollution control system thanks to the OQUAIDO chair
The OQUAIDO a applied mathematics chair, launched in January 2016 and hosted by the École des Mines engineering school in Saint-Étienne, brings together academic and industrial partners b to tackle
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Frederic BLONDEL
Research engineer
Frédéric graduated with a PhD diploma in Fluid Mechanics from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 2014. Since then, he works as a research engineer at IFPEN. Frédéric’s reasearch focuses on both the
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Improving the simulation of the transport process in nanopores using molecular dynamics
THESIS BY PAULINE SIMONNIN
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‘‘BRANE Power’’: of genes and algorithms, an alliance for green chemistry
THESIS BY AURÉLIE PIRAYRE, 2018 YVES CHAUVIN PRIZE
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In silico design: digital materials here we come!
Proposing innovative technological products often requires recourse to simulation approaches in order to boost our capacity to evaluate original concepts. This is particularly true in the field of
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Optimizing the electric cable of a floating wind turbine
Floating wind turbine technologies, such as those co-developed by SBM and IFPEN a , are designed to optimize the recovery of offshore wind energy. Optimization solutions are currently being sought to
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A hydro-mechanical model for underground naturally fractured rocks
Natural underground fractures in rocks provide fluids with preferential flow pathways. The resulting global permeability is exploited for energy production ( geothermal energy and oil and gas recovery
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Wind turbines have the wind in their sails, thanks to GPUs
IFPEN has been carrying out research in the field of floating wind turbines for a number of years, developing, for this purpose, the DeepLines Wind TM simulation tool, in partnership with Principia (1