Team
Principal investigator
Fabian Denner
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal
PhD, Imperial College London, UK (2013)
Dipl.-Ing., Universitat Stuttgart, Germany (2009)
Fabian has over 15 years of scientific experience in the development of numerical methods and computational tools for the prediction and analysis of multiphase flows. His work encompasses both fundamental and applied research on multiphase flows, the development of mathematical models to describe physical phenomena related to multiphase flows and acoustics, as well as the development of numerical methods for incompressible and compressible flows. Fabian currently serves as the vice-chair of the technical committee on Fluid Mechanics Engineering of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME).
Graduate students
Tiphaine Bloch
Inertial cavity collapse
Tiphaine's work focuses on the development of numerical models to predict the collapse, rebound and acoustic emissions of inertially driven cavities.
Mohamed Amine Bougezzoul
Polydisperse particle-laden flows
Amine develops quadrature-based moment methods to simulate dispersed multiphase flows, especially flows laden with particles of different size and shape.
Pierre Coulombel
Cavitation
Pierre works on models for the acoustic interaction of cavitation bubbles and the onset of heterogeneous cavitation in liquids under tension.
Bing Li
Particle impact dynamics
Bing studies the breakup and deformation of particles upon collision, with the aim of developing models for their impact behaviour.
Interns
Tégue Mbodj
Droplet dynamics
Tégue is designing a computing tool for droplet breakup as part of an undergraduate project.
Alumni
(at Polytechnique Montréal)
Hugo Baudin (intern, May - August 2024), Detection of cavitation-induced shock waves.
Maxime Montois (intern, September - December 2023), Simulation of cavitation bubble dynamics.
Associated graduate students
Christian Gorges
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Co-advised by Prof. Berend van Wachem
Numerical methods
Christian works on numerical methods for interfacial flows, especially front-tracking methods, and particles in flows.
Aman Jain
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Co-advised by Prof. Berend van Wachem
Particle-laden flows
Aman's research focuses on the dispersion of particles in evaporation sessile droplets.
Key academic collaborators
Prof. Bruno Blais, Department of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal (Canada)
Prof. Andrew Higgins, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University (Canada)
Prof. Jovan Nedić, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University (Canada)
Prof. Claus-Dieter Ohl, Soft Matter Physics, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Germany)
Prof. Bianca Viggiano, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal (Canada)