Fluids, Energy and Processes specialization

The program focuses on industrial activities in process engineering (material processing, energy, etc.) where fluid mechanics plays a central role. It aims to optimize the design, sizing, and performance of equipment. The curriculum is based on the physical analysis and modeling of coupled transport mechanisms in multiphase flows (droplets, bubbles, particles, emulsions). Courses on turbulence, reaction-flow couplings, and complex media cover physical models and their application in numerical simulation codes.

Prerequisites

• Broad knowledge of chemical engineering or in process engineering
• Sound knowledge of transport phenomena
• Basic knowledge of simulation tools (Matlab, Fluent)

Skills

• Understand the coupled phenomena inside a reactor
• Identify the main phenomena inside a reactor and determine the characteristic time and space scales
• Suggest a model for the phenomena occurring in a reactor
• Design an arrangement of an existing reactor and/or the implementation of new equipment
• Arbitrate the technical choices for the arrangement, operational conditions, instrumentation
• Estimate the impact of the modification of operating conditions on the functioning of the reactor
• Work in a team and in a network

Activity sectors

• Extraction of hydrocarbons
• Petrochemical
• Food-processing industry
• Nuclear industry
• Chemical industry
• Plastic industry
• Metalworking industry
• Machine manufacturing
• Electricity, gas and water production
• Transport and communication
• Energy and sustainable development
• Aeronautics and space