Department of Chemical Engineering
Transport processes Thermodynamics Heat transfer Hydraulics Modelling, simulation and finite element methods Mathematical modelling Fluid mechanics Modelling, simulation Multi-phase systems Turbulence
Modeling and Artificial Intelligence
Research interests and affiliations
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD);
- Fundamental and applied fluid mechanics;
- Process Intensification;
- Multiphysics modeling;
- Granular flows;
- Multiphase flows;
- Finite Element Method (FEM);
- Discrete Element Method (DEM);
- Additive manufacturing;
- Topology optimization;
- High Performance Computing;
- Open source software development
- Lethe, Head
- Research Centre in Industrial Flow Processes (URPEI), Member
- Deal.II, Member
- Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Member
- 1800 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
- 1805 Transport processes
- 2100 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
- 2105 Hydraulics
- 2107 Modelling, simulation and finite element methods
- 1804 Heat transfer
Publications
Biography
Pr Blais expertise lies in the development, verification, and validation of high performance digital models for fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and complex multi-physical and multi-scale phenomena. His research interests are in computational fluid mechanics (CFD), reacting flows, granular and solid-fluid flows, topology optimization as well as high-performance computing on distributed high-performance architecture. He is the core developer of Lethe, an open source high-performance and high-order implicit CFD solver (https://github.com/lethe-cfd/lethe) based on the open source DEALII platform (www.dealii.org). He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles or conference abstract.
Pr Blais is Assistant Professor at École Polytechnique since 2018. Before this, he was a Research Officer with the Automotive and Surface Transportation Portfolio of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC AST) where he has carried out extensive work on multiphysics modelling using the finite element method. He has earned a B. Eng. in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnique Montréal, a Grande École Engineering Diploma from ENSTA Paristech, a master in Fundamental Fluid Mechanics from ENSTA and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal. Pr Blais is a Vanier Graduate Scholar (2012-2016) and has received the Govenor’s General gold academic medal for his thesis work on numerical modelling of multiphase flows.
Teaching
GCH2545 : Modélisation numérique en ingénierie
GCH8108 : Méthodes numériques spécialisées en phénomènes d’échange
Education
- B. Eng. - Chemical Engineering (Polytechnique Montreal)
- Diplôme d'ingénieur - spécialisation systèmes mécanique (ENSTA ParisTech)
- Master - Mécanique des fluides fondamentale et appliquée (ENSTA ParisTech)
- Ph.D. - Chemical Engineering (Polytechnique Montreal)
Supervision at Polytechnique
COMPLETED
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Ph.D. Thesis (1)
- Bérard, A. (2020). Principes fondamentaux de la RTD en phase gazeuse dans les réacteurs à lit fluidisé [Ph.D. thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
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Master's Thesis (5)
- Biette, G. (2022). Caractérisation expérimentale des interactions et de la coalescence entre deux bulles d'air dans de l'eau du robinet stagnante [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Daunais, C.-A. (2022). Développement de méthodes d'ordre élevé pour les écoulements non-newtoniens : application aux écoulements autour d'une sphère [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Deng, J. (2022). Étude expérimentale des interactions entre deux particules sphériques, relâchées dans l'eau stagnante [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Shademani, M. (2020). CFD-DEM Hybrid Modelling of Multiphase Gravity-Driven Granular Flows [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Delacroix, B. (2019). Développement d'un modèle CFD-DEM en référentiel non-inertiel pour des applications au mélange solide-liquide [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
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