The URPEI - Research Center in Industrial Flow Processes - is the technological research center in complex media flow engineering at Polytechnique Montreal. Founded in 1993 under the name "NSERC-Paprican Industrial Chair in Coating Processes" by Professor Philippe A. Tanguy, the URPEI's main mission is to train very high level engineers specialized in one of the following themes, both in experimental and numerical research:

Numerical research

• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Numerical modeling
• High Performance Computing (HPC)
• Granular flows
• Flows in porous media
• Mixture of divided solids
• Mixing of complex fluids
• Science and Technology of Dispersive Flows
• Filtration
• Coating

Experimental research

• Experimental pilot studies
• Mixing of complex fluids in tanks or in-line
• Liquid-solid mixing
• Emulsification processes
• Pickering Emulsions
• High internal phase emulsion (HIPE)
• Filtration
• CO₂ Capture

With a well-established reputation for excellence and scientific leadership, the URPEI actively participates in numerous government- and privately-sponsored research projects. The Centre has several world-class industrial partners in North America, Europe and Japan.

Sharing knowledge and feedback with other research centers in the academic world is also a priority for the URPEI. Targeted collaborations have thus been established with other research groups in Canada, Mexico, Spain and France. The Centre is also behind the launch of the ISMIP (International Symposium on Mixing in Industrial Processes) symposium series, a forum for exchanging and sharing knowledge with the process industry and actively participates in the organization of international conferences such as: "Trends in Physical and Numerical Modeling of Multiphase Industrial flows".

At present, the URPEI has five professors (François Bertrand, Louis Fradette, David Vidal, Sébastien Leclaire et Bruno Blais), a research associate and about twenty students.

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