ECCOMAS award

One month ago, we were informed that Elie Hachem was the winner of the Prize of the best PhD thesis in France in Numerical Methods and Applied mathematics, prize awarded by the Society of Applied & Industrial Mathematics and the Group of Advanced Numerical Methods for Engineer (SMAI-GAMNI).

 

He had also been selected, at the national level by these associations, in order to represent France for the ECCOMAS award  of the two best European theses in 2009 (European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences), in the field of Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering.
 


Elie Hachem, docteur MINES ParisTech (photo de John Pusceddu, CNRS DR20)


Today, we are particularly proud to announce that Elie is the winner of this European award !

He deserves our most sincere congratulations for this prestigious award. This success honours the quality of both the thesis and the research carried out in the School, and we thank him for this.

It is a great satisfaction for the CEMEF, and also for Armines, these works having been supported by a consortium of industrials.

Finally, the whole CEMEF team is quite proud of Elie’s success !

Elie Hachem's work is based on the use of Finite Element methods to simulate the heat transfer coupled with turbulent flows in industrial furnaces. The model is highly complex: incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid, with K-epsilon turbulence models, heat transfer by conduction, advection, and radiation. This work involves state-of-the-art discretization strategies to simulate this complex problem: stabilized Finite Elements, Shock Capturing Petrov-Galerkin method), level set approach, anisotropic mesh adaptation. All aspects are validated with care and the overall approach makes it possible to perform large scale computations, which give a full description of a whole industrial furnace.