SIMULATION-BASED PREDICTION OF VIBRATION IN CENTRIFUGES

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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-25-0102  

Thesis topic details

Category

Engineering science

Thesis topics

SIMULATION-BASED PREDICTION OF VIBRATION IN CENTRIFUGES

Contract

Thèse

Job description

Rotating machinery is a critical piece of equipment in many industrial plants, and its operation is regularly accompanied by balancing problems that result in potentially dangerous vibrations for operators and equipment. The centrifugal decanter, for example, is sometimes subject to vibrations that force the operator to slow down the production rate. The nuclear environment in which this equipment operates makes it impossible to carry out the measurements and observations required for a purely experimental study. The aim is therefore to carry out modelling with limited data in order to gain a detailed understanding of the phenomena involved. The aim of this work is to combine Euler-Euler type CFD simulations of the mass distribution in the rotating bowl with mass-spring modelling of the mechanical connections in order to get closer to the vibration signals measured industrially. Such a numerical tool would be a valuable aid in investigating the various potential sources of mass imbalance without the need for experimental replication. Combined with deep learning methods, this type of model would also make it possible to build an unbalance predictor from short vibration signals, opening the door to active control of the decanter

University / doctoral school


Thesis topic location

Site

Marcoule

Requester

Position start date

01/10/2025

Person to be contacted by the applicant

Randriamanantena Tojonirina tojonirina.randriamanantena@cea.fr
CEA
DES/DMRC//LSPS
CEA Marcoule BP 17171 30207 Bagnols sur Cèze Cedex
0466796534

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

BERTRAND Murielle murielle.bertrand@cea.fr
CEA
DEN/DMRC/DIR
CEA Marcoule Bat 400
BP 17171
30207 Bagnols sur Ceze
04 66 79 66 48

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