Innovation and Industry
Events
01 June 2021
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Fundamental Research
News
25 May 2021
Modelling of high Karlovitz combustion in spark-ignition engines
Edouard Suillaud as a PhD student at IFPEN studied how to better describe the combustion in high Karlovitz1 number regimes such as those encountered in the new combustion chambers of spark-ignition engines. This description was limited by models that were not suitable for such regimes. The extension of the CFM model to “thin reaction zone regime” (TRZ) has produced promising results.
Issues and Foresight
Economic outlook
22 February 2021
A global car market on a roller coaster
In a global car market in steep decline (-14%), sales of electric vehicles increased last year by +36%. Given the latest commitments made by car manufacturers and governments to develop electric vehicles, 2020 was a pivotal year heralding the beginning of a major change in the global vehicle fleet.
Innovation and Industry
News
19 January 2021
The European research project EAGLE paves the way for a highly efficient gasoline engine
News in brief
SCelecTRA: prize for best 2030 scenario for electric mobility
Selected as part of the European ERANET-Electromobility+ program a and coordinated by IFPEN, the SCelecTRA (1) project was aimed at assessing the potential and conditions for the development of