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Florent DUCHAINE
Young Senior in Fluid Dynamics
CERFACS, France
Research interests :
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT)
• Combustion instabilities
• Multiphase flows
• Code coupling
• Massively parallel computations
• Large Eddy Simulations (LES)
• Optimization
Phone num. : 06 83 81 97 51
E-mail : Florent.Duchaine@cerfacs.fr
Url : http://www.cerfacs.fr/~duchaine
CERFACS
42 avenue Gaspard Coriolis
31 057 Toulouse Cedex 01. France.
Nationality : French
30 years old
Professional Background
2010 – ... Young Senior at CERFACS
→ Multiphysics and code coupling
2010 Selected for the CTR Stanford University Summer Program 2010
→ Sensitivity of flame transfer functions of laminar flames.
2009 – 2010 Postdoctoral fellow at Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse in PSC Team
Advisor : Dr. Laurent Selle, IMFT (funded by the French project ANR SIGLE)
→ Eulerian models for turbulent spray combustion with polydispersity
• Investigations in droplets coalescence in a LES framework
→ Numerical investigations of combustor wall temperature effect on Flame Describing Functions
(FDFs) :
• Thermal coupling of a solid conduction solver and a reactive LES fluid code,
• Acoustic forcing of a laminar flame and determination of corresponding FDFs,
• Comparisons with experimental results.

2007 – 2009 Postdoctoral fellow at CERFACS in CFD-Combustion group
Advisor : Prof. Thierry Poinsot, IMFT
→ Numerical investigations of conjugate heat transfer in gas turbines :
• Thermal coupling of a solid conduction solver and a LES fluid code,
• Researches in coupling strategies,
• Applications to gas turbine components.
→ Collaboration with Airbus on Large Eddy Simulations for heat transfer problems
• Assessment of LES in academic flows with experimental and RANS comparisons,
• CHT in an experimental model of an aero engine nacelle cooling.
→ Co-writter with Dr. E. Riber of the aerothermal STRASS project, 7 th calls for proposals of
FNRAE
2008 Selected for the CTR Stanford University Summer Program 2008
Collaboration with F. Nicoud, Professor at University Montpellier II (France), A. Corpron and
V. Moureau, engineers at Turbomeca (France)
→ Conjugate heat transfer with large eddy simulation. Application to gas turbine components.
• Assessment of unsteady thermal coupling with a wall/flame interaction,
• First application of CHT with LES to an experimental film-cooled turbine vane.
2006 Automatization of a multi-physic framework for the prediction of combustion chamber
walls temperature. SNECMA Moteur (France)
Iterative loop based on 3D solvers : reactive multiphase flows / radiative / conduction in solid
media.
2004 – 2007 Ph.D. at CERFACS (preceded by a 7-month training period)
Advisors : Prof. Thierry Poinsot, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse and Dr. L.
Gicquel, CERFACS
Ph.D. funded by the European project INTELLECT-DM (contract of the FP6)
→ Multi-objective Shape Optimization on Parallel Architectures with Metamodels and Couplers.
Application to Aeronautical Combustion Chambers.
Development of a fully parallel optimization tool based on a CFD reactive RANS code :
• Researches and developments in design optimization and code coupling applied to CFD,
• Implementation of the design tool on massively parallel architectures,
• Shape optimization of a combustion chamber.
2004 – 2005 Teaching in numerical fluid dynamics for Undergraduate students for Masters Degree in energetics
engineering. ENSEEIHT (France)
2003 Research training (6 months) at Institut de Mécanique des Fluides et des Solides
de Strasbourg
Advisor : Prof. Pierre Comte, IMFS Strasbourg
→ Toward noise prediction of 3D turbulent jets.
• Implementation and validation of characteristic boundary conditions in a LES solver,
• Simulations of 3D compressible round jets.
Education

2004 – 2007 Ph.D. in Fluid Dynamics
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (France)
2003 – 2004 Mastère Spécialisé (label CGE) in Numerical Fluid Dynamics
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electrotechnique, d’Electronique, d’Informatique, d’Hydraulique et
des Télécomunications (ENSEEIHT) de Toulouse (France)
2002 – 2003 Masters of Science in Mechanics and Energetics
Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (France)
1998 – 2003 Masters Degree in Engineering : Fluid Mechanics and Thermals
Ecole Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l’Ingénieur de Nancy (ESSTIN - France)
Languages and Computer skills
Languages
Computer
French : Native
English : Fluent (TOEIC 690/990 points)
Massively parallel computations : C3I label from GENCI (http://c3i.genci.fr)
Programming : Fortran 90, MPI-1 and -2, C++, Shell, Matlab, Scilab, Maple, HTML
Numerical Simulation : AVBP, AVTP, PALM (CERFACS codes), N3S-Natur, Fluent
Software : Ensight, Tecplot, Centaur-Soft, Gambit, CFD-Geom
Office : L A TEX, Word, Excel, Powerpoint
System : Mac OS X, Unix, Linux, Windows
Activities and Interests
Capoeira
President of the association Capoeiragem that promotes Brazilian arts (Toulouse)
Graded student entitled to give lessons
Publications
Papers in refereed journals
F. Duchaine, F. Boudy, D. Durox and T. Poinsot. Sensitivity analysis of transfer functions of laminar flames. In
preparation - Combustion and Flame
F. Duchaine, M. Boileau, X. Nicolas, Y. Sommerer and T. Poinsot. Large Eddy Simulation of the flow and heat
transfer around two square cylinders in a tandem arrangement. In preparation - IJHMT
M. Boileau, F. Duchaine, Y. Sommerer and T. Poinsot. Large eddy simulation of heat transfer around a square
cylinder. In preparation - IJHMT
F. Duchaine, A. Corpron , V. Moureau , F. Nicoud , T. Poinsot. Development and assessment of a coupled strategy
for conjugate heat transfer with Large Eddy Simulation. Application to a cooled turbine blade. International Journal

of Heat and Fluid Flow, 30(6) : 1129-1141, 2009
F. Duchaine, S. Mendez, F. Nicoud, A. Corpron, V. Moureau, and T. Poinsot. Conjugate heat transfer with large
eddy simulation. Application to gas turbine components. Compte-Rendus de Mécanique de l’Académie des Sciences,
337(6-7) : 550-561, 2009
N. Gourdain, L. Gicquel, G. Staffelbach, O. Vermorel, F. Duchaine, J-F. Boussuge and T. Poinsot. High performance
parallel computing of flows in complex geometries - part 2 : applications, Computational Science & Discovery
2(1) : 015004 (28pp), 2009
F. Duchaine, T. Morel and L.Y.M. Gicquel. Computational-Fluid-Dynamics-Based Kriging Optimization Tool for
Aeronautical Combustion Chambers. AIAA Journal, 47(3) :631-645, 2009.
Papers published in refereed conference proceedings
F. Wlassow, F. Duchaine, G. Leroy and N. Gourdain. 3D Simulation of Coupled Fluid Flow and Solid Heat Conduction
for the Calculation of Blade Wall Temperature in a Turbine Stage. GT2010-22513. In ASME Turbo Expo 2010,
Glasgow, Scotland UK
N. Gourdain, F. Duchaine, E. Collado and L. Gicquel. Advanced Numerical Simulation Dedicated to the Prediction
of Heat Transfer in a Highly Loaded Turbine Guide Vane. GT2010-22793. In ASME Turbo Expo 2010, Glasgow,
Scotland UK
T. Leonard, F. Duchaine, N. Gourdain and L. Gicquel. Steady / Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes and
Large Eddy Simulastions of a Turbine Blade at High Subsonic Outlet Mach Number. GT2010-22469. In ASME Turbo
Expo 2010, Glasgow, Scotland UK
F. Duchaine, L.Y.M. Gicquel, T.J. Poinsot, D. Bissières, and C. Bérat. Optimization Loop Based on a CFD RANS
Code. In ICAS 2006, Hamburg, Germany, 2006.
Papers presented at meetings without reviews
F. Duchaine, S. Mendez, F. Nicoud, A. Corpron, V. Moureau, and T. Poinsot. Conjugate heat transfer with large
eddy simulation. Application to gas turbine components. In 2ieme Colloque INCA, CORIA, Rouen, France, 2008.
F. Duchaine, L.Y.M. Gicquel, D. Bissières, C. Bérat, and T.J. Poinsot. Automatic Design Optimization Applied
to Lean Premixed Combustor Cooling. In 1st Workshop INCA, pages 295-304, SNECMA Villaroche, France, 2005.
Papers published in journals without referees
F. Duchaine and T. Poinsot. Sensitivity of flame transfer functions of laminar flames. In Proceedings of the Summer
Program Center for Turbulence Research, NASA AMES - Stanford University, USA, 2010.
F. Duchaine, S. Mendez, F. Nicoud, A. Corpron, V. Moureau and T. Poinsot. Coupling heat transfer solvers and
Large Eddy Simulations for combustion applications. In Proceedings of the Summer Program Center for Turbulence
Research, NASA AMES - Stanford University, USA, 2008.
Invited lectures
F. Duchaine and T. Poinsot. Simulations of fame/wall interactions and effects on combustion instabilities. First

International Workshop on Near-Wall Reactive Flows, Darmstadt, Nov. 18-19, 2010.
G. Dufour, N. Gourdain, F. Duchaine, O. Vermorel, L. Gicquel, J-F. Boussuge and T. Poinsot. Large Eddy Simulation
Applications, VKI Lecture Series Numerical Investigations in Turbomachinery : the State of the Art. Rhodes-
St-Genese, Sept. 21-25, 2009.
Referees
Thierry Poinsot, Research Director at CNRS, Leader of the CERFACS CFD Team. Co-author.
Address : CERFACS - 42 avenue Gaspard Coriolis - 31057 Toulouse Cedex 1 - FRANCE
Phone num. : +33 (0)5 34 32 28 93
E-mail : thierry.poinsot@cerfacs.fr
Laurent Gicquel, Senior Researcher, CERFACS - CFD Team. Co-author.
Address : CERFACS - 42 avenue Gaspard Coriolis - 31057 Toulouse Cedex 1 - FRANCE
Phone num. : +33 (0)5 61 19 30 46
E-mail : laurent.gicquel@cerfacs.fr
Laurent Selle, Researcher at CNRS.
Address : IMFT - Allée du Professeur Camille Soula - 31400 Toulouse - FRANCE
Phone num. : 33 (0)5 34 32 29 36
E-mail : laurent.selle@imft.fr