CERFACS CERFACS Scientific Activity Report Jan. 2010 – Dec. 2011

INTRODUCTION
Formation and teaching is becoming an increasingly larger part of CERFACS mission. The CFD team has
initiated and is now using a site dedicated to eLearning (www.cerfacs.fr/elearning) where students following
courses given by CERFACS can have access to all documents. CERFACS is organizing multiple courses
every year, on LES, acoustics or couplers, for researchers, partners and for laboratories. CERFACS will
also collaborate to the Equip@meso project starting in 2011.
In terms of academic research and visibility, CERFACS remains very active :
– The CFD team has organized the MUSAF meeting (Multiphysics Unsteady Simulation for Aerodynamic
Flows) in Toulouse on Sept 27-29, 2010 with the support of Airbus, Safran, Onera and the European
commission : this meeting has gathered more than 250 world experts in the field of multiphysics applied
to simulations around the aircraft and within engines. With the support of the Toulouse RTRA and the
Marie Curie project COPA-GT (coordinated by the CFD team) , this workshop will be repeated in 2013.
– CERFACS is invited to meetings like SCIDAC (Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing),
QLES (Quality in LES, Pisa 2009), DEISA-PRACE symposium (Helsinki 2011) for invited plenary
lectures. At SuperComputing 2010 in Hamburg, an invited talk was given on HPC and CFD by Dr
Staffelbach. Young seniors of the team are also teaching, for example at the Von Karmann Institute where
Dr N. Gourdain gave a course on High Performance Computing for CFD. This effort will continue.
– CERFACS distributes codes to research centers and laboratories : AVBP is available in CNRS laboratories
in France (IMF Toulouse, IRPHE Marseille, EM2C Centrale, CORIA Rouen), Institut Francais du
Pétrole, ONERA Toulouse and Paris. Within France, CERFACS and CORIA will collaborate within a
GIS (Groupement d’Interet Scientifique) managed by CORIA to distribute AVBP and YALES 2 to all
CNRS laboratories interested by these technologies. In Europe, AVBP is available at Universities of
Munich, Belfast, Madrid, Zaragozza, Twente, Graz, Eindhoven ; etc. CERFACS and IFPEN (the owners
of AVBP) re integrate developments coming from those partners. CRCT (Centre de Recherche sur la
Combustion Turbulente) keeps working as well as ever and gathered more than 100 scientists in IFPEN
in March 2010 and in Ecole Centrale Paris in March 2011.
– Outside Europe, CERFACS promotes multiple collaborations. The most active is the Stanford /
CERFACS work in the field of turbulent combustion. After the post doc stays of V. Moureau, T. Lederlin,
A. Roux, a new PhD (J. Dombard from IMFT) has joined CTR in 2012 to work on UQ (Uncertainty
Quantification) with Pr. Iaccarino. During the 2010 Summer Program at Stanford, seven members of
the CFD team spent one month at CTR to work on thermoacoustics and coupled LES/heat transfer
computations (see www.stanford.edu/group/ctr/Summer/SP10).
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