Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

We intend to pursue our partnership with Valeol, a wind turbine contractor in Aquitaine. Valeol poses simulation problems that cannot be addressed with standard tools. We have developed for them simplified PDE models for design in the frame of an industry funded PhD (CIFRE). We are currently adapting octree and Chimera approaches to the design of aerodynamic appendices to improve performance of existing installations. This is done in the frame of yet another CIFRE PhD thesis and the corresponding research contract. Moreover, thanks to this technology readiness, Valeol could join for the first time an H2020 research project, AEROGUST, that we are promoting with several academic and industrial institutions across Europe.

This year, we have also developed an new collaboration with the CorWave (http://www.corwave.fr). CorWave develops blood pumps based on a unique and patented wave membrane pumping technology. This collaboration has begun with an industry funded PhD (CIFRE), officially for the early 2017. Antoine Fondaneche, the PhD candidate, is now employed by CorWave on a basis of a two-month CDD contract.

We continue to deploy our effort in flow control and drag reduction for ground vehicles. After a fruitful collaboration with Renault, we are in the phase of negotiating a new collaboration. A new collaboration is starting with Valeo to optimize car cooling devices. DNS simulations are performed and compared to the industrial results obtained with URANS and LES methods and an EU network about this subject is going to be proposed.