General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DES-26-0548
Thesis topic details
Category
Engineering science
Thesis topics
Development of a new numerical scheme, based on T-coercivity, for discretizing the Navier-Stokes equations.
Contract
Thèse
Job description
In the TrioCFD code, the discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations leads to a three-step algorithm (see Chorin'67, Temam'68): velocity prediction, pressure solution, velocity correction. If an implicit time discretization scheme is to be used, the pressure solution step is particularly costly. Thus, most simulations are performed using an explicit time scheme, for which the time step depends on the mesh size, which can be very restrictive. We would like to develop an implicit time discretization scheme using a stabilized formulation of the Navier-Stokes problem based on explicit T-coercivity (see Ciarlet-Jamelot'25). It would then be possible to solve an implicit scheme directly without a correction step, which could significantly improve the performance of the calculations. This would also allow the use of the P1-P0 finite element pair, which is frugal in terms of degrees of freedom but unstable for a classical formulation.
University / doctoral school
Ecole Doctorale de Mathématiques Hadamard (EDMH)
IP. Paris
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2026
Person to be contacted by the applicant
PEITAVY Andrew
andrew.peitavy@cea.fr
CEA
DES/DM2S/STMF/LMSF
CEA Saclay
DES/ISAS/DM2S/STMF/LDEL
Bât 451, porte 1
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex
+(33) 6 22 87 91 72
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
JAMELOT Erell
erell.jamelot@cea.fr
CEA
DES/DM2S
CEA-Saclay
DES/ISAS/DM2S/STMF/LMSF
Bât. 451
91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex
0169084425
En savoir plus
https://triocfd.cea.fr/