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Bruno Blais
Ph.D. (Polytechnique Montréal), Master (ENSTA ParisTech), D. Ing. (ENSTA ParisTech), B. Ing. (Polytechnique Montréal)
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Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Phone: (514) 340-4711 Ext. 4533 Fax: (514) 340-4159 Room: A-684.2
Areas of expertise
Transport processes Thermodynamics Heat transfer Hydraulics Modelling, simulation and finite element methods Mathematical modelling Fluid mechanics Modelling, simulation Multi-phase systems Turbulence
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Research interests and affiliations

Research interests
  • 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
Affiliation(s)
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
  • 1800 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
  • 1805 Transport processes
  • 2100 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
  • 2105 Hydraulics
  • 2107 Modelling, simulation and finite element methods
  • 1804 Heat transfer

Publications

Recent publications
Journal article
Sadeghi, H., Diosady, L. & Blais, B. (2022). A computational fluid dynamics study on rimming flow in a rotating cylinder. Physics of Fluids, 34(6), 14 pages. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0093351
Journal article
Golshan, S., Shams, A., Rabiee, R., Jafari, R., Chaouki, J. & Blais, B. (2022). A correlation for average droplet diameter in rotating packed beds. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 12 pages. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.24484
Journal article
Barbeau, L., Étienne, S., Béguin, C. & Blais, B. (2022). Development of a high-order continuous Galerkin sharp-interface immersed boundary method and its application to incompressible flow problems. Computers & Fluids, 239, 13 pages. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2022.105415
Journal article
Golshan, S., Patience, G.S., Zarghami, R., Chaouki, J. & Blais, B. (2022). Experimental methods in chemical engineering: Optical fibre probes in multiphase systems. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 16 pages. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.24419
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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

  • 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). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/5484/

  • Master's Thesis (3)

    • Deng, J. (2022). Étude expérimentale des interactions entre deux particules sphériques, relâchées dans l'eau stagnante (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/10269/
    • Shademani, M. (2020). CFD-DEM Hybrid Modelling of Multiphase Gravity-Driven Granular Flows (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/5283/
    • 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). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/4127/

News about Bruno Blais

NEWS | October 2, 2020
Polytechnique Montréal Professor Bruno Blais named to the New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization - NDRIO Researcher Council | Read
NEWS | September 23, 2020
Plastic recycling goes electric: new technology gets a boost | Read

Press review about Bruno Blais

February 13, 2022, ICI Radio Canada - Les années lumière , Un superordinateur pour faire avancer la science Bruno Blais, professeur adjoint au Département de génie chimique, discute à propos de l’utilisation de superordinateurs à des fins de simulation numérique (à 6:15).