Dr. Abdelkader Hammouti

Head of the PeliGRIFF team

IFPEN research engineer

Dr. Guillaume Vinay

IFPEN research engineer, project manager

Dr. Jean-Lou Pierson

IFPEN Lyon

Florian Euzenat

IFPEN PhD student (2014-2017)

Heat and mass transfer in fluidized beds using a meso-scale Euler/Lagrange modeling

IFPEN Lyon

Supervisors: Pr. E. Climent & Pr. P. Fede (IMFT, Toulouse) /

                       Pr. A. Wachs (UBC, Vancouver)/ Dr. A. Hammouti (IFPEN)

Malik Bélot

IFPEN PhD student (2015-2018)

Numerical study of heat transfer in a phase change material particle applied to thermal energy storage

IFPEN Rueil Malmaison

Supervisors: Dr. A. Toutant (PROMES, Perpignan) / Dr. G. Vinay (IFPEN)

Mostafa Sulaiman

IFPEN PhD student (2015-2018)

A shrinking core model for the multi-scale modelling of a biomass gasification process

IFPEN Lyon

Supervisors: Pr. E. Climent (IMFT, Toulouse) / Pr. A. Wachs (UBC, Vancouver) / Dr. A. Hammouti (IFPEN)

François Audard

IFPEN Postdoc (2017-2018)

Meso scale Euler/Lagrange modelling of particulate flow in complex geometry

IFPEN Lyon/UBC Vancouver

Supervisors: Pr. A. Wachs (UBC, Vancouver) / Dr. A. Hammouti (IFPEN)

Dr. Matthieu Rolland

IFPEN research engineeer in the Process Intensification Department

Packing, microstructure and hydrodynamics in a catalyst reactor fixed bed

IFPEN Lyon

Dr. Rim Brahem

IFPEN research engineeer in the Process Department

Packing, microstructure and hydrodynamics in fluidized beds

Gilles Ferrer

Solid Mechanics Department

IFPEN Rueil Malmaison

Dr. Cyril Cassar

IFPEN reseach engineer in the Fluid Mechanics Department

Slumping of a granular column made of angular particles in a channel with Grains3D

IFPEN Lyon

Prof. Anthony Wachs

PeliGRIFF Daddy

Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Mathematics

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

IFPEN Research Engineer from 2000 to 2015

Dr. Manuel Bernard

IFPEN research engineer in the Fluid Mechanics Department.

12 months in 2015 at IFPEN Lyon

Prof. Ian Frigaard

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mathematics

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

6 months at IFPEN Rueil Malmaison in 2006-2007

4 months at IFPEN Lyon in 2013-2014

Prof. Raj Chhabra

Department of Chemical Enginerering

IIT Kanpur, India

6 months at IFPEN Rueil Malmaison from July 2007 to December 2007

Prof. Paulo de Souza Mendes

Department of Mechanical Engineering

PUC-Rio, Brasil

6 months at IFPEN Rueil Malmaison from September 2012 to February 2013

Dr. Zhaosheng "Jason" Yu

Direct numerical simulation of particulate flows in non-Newtonian fluids

12 months in 2005-2006 at IFPEN Rueil Malmaison

Supervisors: Dr. Y. Peysson & Dr. A. Wachs (IFPEN)

Dr. Calin Dan

Direct numerical simulation of particulate flows with heat transfer

18 months in 2007-2008 at IFPEN Rueil Malmaison

Supervisor: Dr. A. Wachs

Dr. Jacques Kouakou 

Parallel computations of particulate flows

12 months in 2007-2008 at IFPEN Rueil Malmaison

Supervisor: Dr. A. Wachs (IFPEN)

Dr. Laurence Girolami

Direct numerical simulation of particulate flows with heat transfer, Part 2

12 months in 2009 at IFPEN Rueil Malmaison

Supervisors: Dr. G. Vinay & Dr. A. Wachs (IFPEN)

Dr. Vincent Topin

Hydrodynamics of sub-marine avalanches

12 months in 2010-2011 at IRSN Cadarache, France

Supervisors: Dr. F. Perales (IRSN), CNRS DR F. Radjai (LMGC),

                       Dr. A. Wachs (in secondment at IRSN Cadarache at that time)

Dr. Abdelkader Hammouti

Massively parallel numerical simulation of dispersed flows in Chemical Engineering processes

by a coupled DEM-CFD approach

18 months in 2010-2011 at IFPEN Rueil Malmaison

Supervisors: Dr. G. Vinay & Dr. A. Wachs (IFPEN)

Dr. Mona Rahmani

IFPEN post-doctoral student (2013-2014)

Multi-scale simulation of fluidized beds

IFPEN Lyon

Supervisor: Dr. A. Wachs

Dr. Ludovic Briquet

Labex iMUST/ENS/IFPEN post-doctoral student (2013-2014)

Multiscale simulation of selective hydrogenation ofbutadiene: from active sites to reactive flow

ENS/IFPEN Lyon

Supervisors: Pr. P. Sautet (ENS)/Dr. C. Chizallet, Dr. P. Raybaud,

                       Dr. J. Verstraete, Dr. A. Wachs & Dr. A. Hammouti (IFPEN)

Dr. Katerina Voronetska

IFPEN PhD student (2008-2011)

Direct numerical simulation of dispersed phase flows

IFPEN Rueil Malmaison

Supervisors: Pr. J/-P. Caltagirone (I2M, TREFLE, Bordeaux) /

                       Dr. G. Vinay & Dr. A. Wachs (IFPEN)

Dr. Manuel Bernard

IFPEN PhD student (2011-2014)

Multi-scale approach for fluid/particles flows

IFPEN Lyon

Supervisors: Pr. E. Climent (IMFT, Toulouse) /

                       Dr. A. Wachs (IFPEN)

Dr. Ferdaous Dorai

IFPEN PhD student (2011-2014)

Numerical study of packing, hydrodynamic and reactivity in fixed bed pilot rectors

IFPEN Lyon

Supervisors: Pr. M. Marcoux & Pr. E. Climent (IMFT, Toulouse) /

                       Dr. M. Rolland & Dr. A. Wachs (IFPEN)

Dr. Amir Esteghamatian

IFPEN PhD student (2013-2016)

Multi-scale numerical simulation of fluidized beds by High Performance Computing

IFPEN Lyon

Supervisors : Pr. M. Lance (LMFA, Lyon) / Pr. M. Uhlmann (KIT, Karlsruhe) /

                        Pr. A. Wachs (UBC, Vancouver)/Dr. A. Hammouti (IFPEN)

Dr. Andriarimina Daniel Rakotonirina

IFPEN PhD Student (2013-2016)

Non convex granular media and their use to design new catalyst reactors

IFPEN Lyon

Supervisor : Pr. A. Wachs (UBC, Vancouver) / Dr. M. Rolland (IFPEN) /

                      Dr. A. Hammouti (IFPEN)

Carlos de Moura Teixeira

Universidade de Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Chemical Engineering Department

Direct numerical simulation of fixed-bed reactors: Effect of random packing

IFPEN Lyon (March-July 2013)

IFPEN Supervisors: Res. Eng. M. Rolland /

                                   Dr. A. Wachs

Ye-Bonne Koyama

Renewable Energy Science and Technology Master, École Polytechnique

3rd year at ENSTA ParisTech - École des Ponts ParisTech

Numerical simulations of heat transfers in an aa-caes system

IFPEN Rueil (April-September 2014)

IFPEN Supervisors: Dr. G. Vinay & Dr. D. Teixeira

BARRERE Vincent

IFPEN Master student, Mathematical Engineering, Advanced Scientific Computing, Lille 1 University

Development of a cohesive law in a DEM code to simulate the fracture behavior of catalyst supports

IFPEN Lyon (March - August 2015)

IFPEN Supervisors: Dr. V. Le Corre & Dr. M. Bernard

Caroline LUCAS

IFPEN Master student, POLYTECH Clermont Ferrand

Numerical study of the behavior of particles in continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR) units

IFPEN Rueil Malmaison (March - August 2015)

Supervisors: Dr. F. Richard /

                       Dr. G. Vinay (IFPEN)

Malik Bélot

IFPEN Master student, ENSIACET - Master 2 ENSEEIHT

Numerical study of heat transfer in a phase change material particle applied to thermal energy storage

IFPEN Rueil Malmaison (April - August 2015)

Supervisor: Dr. G. Vinay (IFPEN)

Anais Devouassoux

IFPEN Master student, ENSIACET

Numerical study of void fraction and characterisation of packed beds of monodispersed

cylinders, trilobes and quadrilobes

IFPEN Lyon (August - December 2015)

Supervisor: Dr. M. Rolland / A. D. Rakotonirina (IFPEN)

Juba Ouari

IFPEN Master student, ENSMA

Numerical study of cylindrical particles in fluidised beds

IFPEN Lyon (October - February 2015)

Supervisor: Dr. B. Brahem / Dr. D. Ferré (IFPEN)

Cecile Floer

IFPEN Master student,

Numerical study of granular flows in a complex geometry catalytic reactor

IFPEN Rueil (April - August 2016)

Supervisors: Dr. F. Richard / Dr. G. Vinay (IFPEN)

Aghiles Guezi

IFPEN Master student 

HCI development for Grains3D software

IFPEN Rueil (April - August 2016)

Supervisors: Dr. F. Gauluet / Dr. G. Vinay (IFPEN)

Felaurys Vasquez

IFPEN Master student 

Numerical study of cavitation and pinning effects due to gas injection through a bed of particles:

application to a radial-flow moving-bed reactor

IFPEN Rueil (April - August 2016)

Supervisor: Dr. G. Vinay (IFPEN)

José Luis BARRIOS

IFPEN Master student, ENSEEIHT

Simulation et caractérisation des empilements de grains de catalyseur dans un réacteur

IFPEN Lyon (Mars - August 2016)

Supervisor: Dr. M. Rolland / A. D. Rakotonirina (IFPEN)