Two PhD positions in engineering at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ATM-BURN) and UC Louvain

“METRIC – A Multi-fidEliTy framework for the development of Robust dIgital twins of Combustion systems”

The production of renewable electrofuels from excess wind and solar power or biofuels from waste or opportunity biomass is a very attractive opportunity to create energy-dense carriers with neutral or even negative carbon balance. These carriers will be converted in versatile combustion technologies able to prevent harmful emissions while assuring high energy efficiency. Thus, the role of combustion technologies will become even more crucial in the future.

Combustion devices are characterized by vast ranges of time and length scales, phase transitions, bifurcations, and multiple interacting physical phenomena that are extremely complex to predict. High-fidelity simulations are still prohibitive for realistic systems and limited to simple canonical problems: this is mainly due to the size of chemical mechanisms, which consist of hundreds of species and thousands of reactions, even for simple fuels.