Groupe des Ecoles des Mines - Industrial Energy Engineering Department

Part of the research developed in the department is upstream of industrial problems and has a prospective orientation. The other part of research is generally conducted within the framework of long-term cooperation contracts dealing with industrial needs. Experimental techniques and modelling are systematically combined in our approach.  The department has two main divisions:

Fluid mechanics and ecological energy solutions:
 computational fluid dynamics
 the study of particle take-off and their transport mechanisms,
 combustion and the air pollution related to it.

Heat transfer in heat exchangers:
 coupled heat and mass transfer,
 the study of convective heat transfer enhancement using passive methods,
 identification methods applied to heat transfer.

In addition to research and technology transfer activities, the department regularly conducts surveys on behalf of the DRIRE (Regional Office for Industry, Research and Environment) and ANVAR (National Agency for the Transfer of Research to Industry). It performs tests on specific experimental facilities for validating and/or characterizing  energetic components like heat exchangers. CFD codes are also used for flows validation purposes by modelling complex geometries with or without heat transfer.

Head of Department : Bernard BAUDOIN, Pr.

 Faculty : 9 (incl. 2 HDR)
 Technical & administrative staff : 3
 PhD students : 7

Platforms and facilities:
 Energy Platform (600 kW boiler, turbo-generator),
 Natural Gas Cooling System,
 Industrial heat exchangers testing facility,
 Three Subsonic wind-tunnel including one unsteady (0-40 m/s, test section 500 x 500mm and 0-25 m/s, test section 1500 x 800mm),
 Hydrodynamic tunnel (test section 250 x 250mm),

Advanced metrology :
 Particule Image Velocimetry,
 1D Laser Doppler Velocimetry and hot wire anemometry (single and double),
 Infrared thermography with data acquisition and images processing,
 Acoustic measuring devices (sonometer, sound analyzer),
 Data acquisition units for temperature, humidity and pressure measurements

Numerical equipment
 Computational Fluids Dynamics software: FLUENT, Gambit