Position details

Numerical simulation of thermo-acoustic instabilites of gas turbine engines
Thesis › Computational Fluid Dynamics - Combustion

Required Education / Niveau requis

Master of Sciences or Diplom Arbeit

From / Date de début

2011 (automne)

Duration / Durée

3 years

Context / Contexte

CERFACS develops all models and tools to perform Large Eddy Simulations
(LES) of reacting flows in combustion chambers. The AVBP code of CERFACS
(www.cerfacs.fr/cfd/parallel.php)  is the official tool of the SAFRAN group and
is used widely in France and Europe for LES of reacting flows. 

Description / Description

Thermo-acoustic instabilities are a recurrent problem limiting the range of
operation of the aeronautical and power generation gas turbine engines.
Prediction of their appearance at the design stage is very difficult or even
impossible today. The numerical approach that is Large Eddy Simulations
(LES) is in this context very promising and recent applications prove the
power of this new numerical tool. For this PhD thesis, the developement of
LES will be continued in collaboration with the SAFRAN group to assess its
predictability for real gas turbine geometries (complete geometrie) operated
at various conditions. 

Contacts / Contacts

Name: Poinsot Thierry
Phone: +33(0)5.61.19.30.34
Fax: +33(0)5.61.19.30.00
Email: poinsot@cerfacs.fr

Name: Gicquel Laurent
Phone: 05-61-19-30-46
Fax: 05-61-19-30-00
Email: lgicquel@cerfacs.fr

Salary / Rémunération

1700 Euros net / mois