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-27-0200
Thesis topic details
Category
Engineering science
Thesis topics
Modeling of the coupling between particle and bubble migration and natural convection within a glass bath
Contract
Thèse
Job description
The management of gaseous inclusions or particles in glass is a challenge existing throughout the glass industry. Depending on the processes considered, their gravity-driven migration can be altered by natural convection movements. In this context, understanding the dynamics involved within multiphysics convective systems is essential. This subject proposes to model/simulate the transient evolution of a multiphase system representative of a fluid mixture with complex rheology (thermo-dependence and particle effects) containing particles and bubbles subjected to a thermal constraint in a cylindrical geometry. Doing so will allow to estimate the different evolution regimes, their transitions, and the characteristic quantities involved, such as characteristic times of stabilization of particles and bubbles, or their characteristic sizes and distribution zones. These results will be validated by experimental data from the corpus available within the DPME, which also has extensive experience in the development of vitrification processes and their modeling. The knowledge produced will be directly useful to the sector for the production of vitrified nuclear waste, as the processes must be optimized to take into account the presence of solid, liquid, and gaseous phases, which need to be characterized.
University / doctoral school
Information, Structures et Systèmes (I2S)
Montpellier I
Thesis topic location
Site
Marcoule
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2027
Person to be contacted by the applicant
BRISSOT Charles
charles.brissot@cea.fr
CEA
DES/DPME/SEME/LEMC
BP 17171
30207 Bagnols sur Cèze
0466397376
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
POULESQUEN Arnaud
arnaud.poulesquen@cea.fr
CEA
DES/DPME//LFCM
CEA Marcoule
BP 17171
30 207 Bagnols sur Cèze cedex
0466791801
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