Position details

Multiphysics in gas turbines simulations
Job offer & Post-Doc › Computational Fluid Dynamics - Aerodynamics

Required Education / Niveau requis

PhD in CFD or turbomachinery

From / Date de début

2013

Duration / Durée

12 months renewable

Context / Contexte

One path for sustainable development is the development of more efficient and ‘green’ gas turbines (GT). A GT is composed of a compressor, a combustor and a turbine, and it is driven by combustion, heat transfer, thermal behaviour of the solid parts, acoustics and noise generation and mechanical vibration. GT optimization is therefore a complex multi-physics, multi-component problem, which has long been based on engineering intuition and expensive experiments and tests. Developing numerical tools and methodologies to simulate the entire GT with all physical effects is a new challenge and the overall scientific objective of multiple projects at CERFACS. One of them is supported by the STAE RTRA (www.fondation-stae.net/) which is an ambitious project dedicated to fundamental aspects of of code coupling for GT computations. Such coupled simulations represent one of the most demanding challenges for High Performance Computing (HPC).

Description / Description

The post doctoral researcher will be recruited by RTRA to work at CERFACS with the team developing the coupling tools between the codes used in the combustor and the codes used for compressor and turbine. This requires fundamental work to choose how to couple the solvers, computer work to do it on massively parallel machines and physics capacities to analyze results. A high level of publications on this very visible topic is expected. Some expertise in CFD is obviously required but knowledge of rotating machines and numerical analysis is a plus. The position is for one year but may be extended. 

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

Salary / Rémunération

> 2500 Euros net /month