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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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Improving the simulation of the transport process in nanopores using molecular dynamics
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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

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Faster and just as good: the motto of adaptive methods
In the field of numerical simulation, a sufficiently accurate representation of the data associated with physical models requires, in general, a very large numerical grid that, despite existing

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More efficient flow simulations inspired by optimal control
Multiphase mixture (gas and liquid) flow simulation in porous media has a variety of applications in the field of geosciences a but also in the fields of engineering and chemical processes. In

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Solving sparse linear systems on heterogeneous architectures
Numerical simulation is a strategic tool, complementary to experimental studies, used to gain a precise understanding of complex physical phenomena. With many simulation tools a, performance closely

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Life and death of soot: a model to control the phenomenon
Vehicle approval standards require increasingly high levels of engine performance (low fuel consumption and low emissions) over a broad working range. It is for this reason that new engine