
COMPETENCES
Fluid Mechanics Study
Chemical reaction in flow-field
Diphasique with or without state phase modification flow-field
Perfect gas and viscous gas flow-field
Heat Transfer Study
Heat transfer between two different phases
Heat transfer due to chemical reactions or state phase change
Codes Development (language FORTRAN)
Time marching code and space marching code
- Heat transfer
- State phase changes and condensation
Resolution by finite volumes method
- Chemical reaction flow-field
Industrial codes:
Niccolet code, NeqAir code, Parade, Asteroid for the radiative study
TINA, code developed by Fluid Gravity Engineering for the viscous flow-field study around blunt body for hypersonic initial conditions.
FLUENT, Gambit
CFD-RC (GEOM, FASTRAN and VIEW).
TAU and Centaur
AAS for the aerodynamic coefficients determination
EcoSim pro for combustion
TAS (Thermal Analysis Software) for the building simulation (heating and cooling loads.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Doctor. - Engineer CEA/CESTAS. (
January 2007 – October 2007
Aerothermodynamics support to earth re-entry projects (Design, computations of the aerodynamic coefficients, trajectory computations, flowfield computation around the vehicle, heat flux analysis…).
Doctor. - Engineer A.O.E.S. (
November 2001 –December 2006
Participation to the definition of the Research project.
Elaboration of the Statement of Work.
Review and analysis of studies performed by European Industrial (Mars Exobiology, ExoMars/EDLS, Mars Sample Return,…).
Aerothermodynamics support to projects (Design, computations of the aerodynamic coefficients, trajectory computations, flowfield computation around the probe, heat flux analysis…) for differents studies (IRDT, Pares, Jupiter Entry Probe …).
“Support to TRP contract”
Aerodynamic Analysis Software, Dust erosion, CO2 Validations, Scirocco modification for CO2 gas mixture, Rapid Design System….
“Support to CDF study”
Aerothermodynamics Analysis for different projects (ExoMars, MSR, Human Mission to Mars, Aerocapture, EVD, BeagleNet, Vega, Keo, Socrates…)
“Support to Cassini-Huygens”
Trajectory analysis for the Huygens probe during the entry in the Titan atmosphere.
Flowfield computation for the evaluation of the convective and radiative heat fluxes at the surface of the probe.
Engineer Bet OASIIS (
May 1996 - October 2001
Simulation of building and computation of the heating and cooling load (TAS software)
Financial saving study
Flowfield computations in around building and in specific room in order to increase the thermal confort (combination of temperature and velocity)
Research Fellow ESA / ESTEC, Aerothermodynamics section (Noordwijk, Pays-Bas)
January 1995 - January 1996
“Support to Ariane V Project”: Condensation study during the venting of the upper Stage Tanks
Numerical development of a diphasic non-equilibrium flow.
Parametric study to identify the influence of the model and the physical parameters.
Definition of the experiments in
“Mars Re-entry Study”
Viscous flowfield computations in the HEG nozzle with the measured experimental chamber conditions.
Navier-Stokes computations around a blunt body represented the model used during the experiments in the HEG tunnel.
“Plasma Radiation Research”: Support for the Plasmatron of the Von Karman Institut.
Computation of the heat fluxes lost by radiation with the Niccolet code.
Ph. D. Dept “Milieux Hors Equilibre” (Marseille, France)
November 1991 - September 1994
“CO2 Shock Layer Analysis – Application to Martian Atmospheric Atmosphere”
Development and modification of a one Dimensional code.
CO2 experiments in a sock tube to validate and compare the results obtained by simulation.
EDUCATION
Ph. D. Mécanique Energétique September 1994
(Energy mechanism)
Département "Milieux Hors Equilibre"
UA CNRS 1168, Marseille (13)
D.E.A. Transferts Thermiques et Combustion June 1991
(Heat Transfer and Combustion)
Faculté de St Jérome, Marseille (13)
Engineer Systèmes Energétiques et Transferts Thermiques June 1991
(Energy Systems and Heat Transfer)
Ecole d'Ingénieur I.U.S.T.I., Marseille (13)
D.E.U.S.T. Energétique et Economies d'Energie June 1988
(Energy and Energy Saving)
Faculté des sciences de Paris XI, Orsay (91)
Baccalauréat Série C “Mathématiques et Physiques” July 1986
Lycée Franscique Sarcey, Dourdan (91)
LANGUAGES
French Mother tongue
English Fluent
German Basic
Dutch Poor
COMPUTER FACILITIES
Operating System: DOS, Macintosh, IBM, UNIX, Xwindows, Linux
Languages: Fortran, Pascal, Basic
Software: Tecplot, Latex,
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Matlab
Fluent/Gambit, CFD-RC, Tau/Centaur,
Bidim, Mef-Mosaic , TAS
Dbase IV, Dboutils, Framework,
HOBBIES
Sports and specially
Sailing (Teacher)
Movies
| 1 month - Discovery | 400 euros | convert |
| 3 months - Bronze | 1050 euros | convert |
| 6 months - Silver | 1800 euros | convert |
| 12 months - Gold | 2950 euros | convert |