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28 June 2022

Rémi Manceau presented the main achievements of the MONACO_2025 project at the so-called 3/4 review of the projects by the ANR.


21 June 2022

Alexandre Weppe brilliantly defended his PhD in Poitiers. In his project, he created the experimental setup from scratch, validated it, acquired the stationary, cyclic and transients databases and provided some in depth analysis of the physics. The completeness of this work that implies many skills was very much appreciated by the jury. Congrats!


1 June 2022

The MONACO_2025 consortium will organize in Pau on 19 and 20 January 2023 the 17th ERCOFTAC SIG15 workshop on turbulent natural convection flows

At this workshop, the main results issued from the project will be presented and compared to results of other research groups.

The test cases discussed during the workshop will be the differentially heated cavities of Sebilleau (cubic cavity) and the cavity with a partially heated inner block (database acquired during the Monaco_2025 project)

All the details can be found on this page


6 April 2022

Alexandre Weppe will defend his PhD on 21 June 2022 in Poitiers!


January 2022

A new post-doc joined the MONACO_2025 project: Sofen Kumar Jena. He will work on Task 5.1 for 12 months

Welcome to him!


November 2021

The paper is published:

Experimental study of a natural convection flow in a cubic enclosure with a partially heated inner block

A. Weppe, F. Moreau, D. Saury, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, IOP Publishing, 2021, 2116 (1), pp.012033. ⟨10.1088/1742-6596/2116/1/012033⟩


24 September 2021

R. Manceau gave the invited talk

Hybrid Temporal LES: from theory to applications

R. Manceau, P.  Bikkanahally

HiFiLeD – 2nd High Fidelity Industrial LES/DNS Symposium, Sep 2021, Toulouse / Virtual, France


15 September 2021

V. Duffal gave this talk at the ETMM13 conference

A new formulation of hybrid temporal large-eddy simulation

V. Duffal, B. de Laage de Meux, R. Manceau

ETMM 2021 – 13th International ERCOFTAC symposium on engineering, turbulence, modelling and measurements, Sep 2021, Rhodes / Virtual, Greece


1 September 2021

Due to difficulties to hire a post-doc, the coordinator asked for an extension of the project. This demand has been accepted by ANR: the project is extended to the end of February 2023


30 June 2021

Suad Jakirlic, the organizer of the mini-symposium Current Trends in Modelling and Simulation of Turbulent Flows during the HiFiLeD Symposium, September 22-24, 2021 in Toulouse, France, invited R. Manceau and P. Bikkanahally to present their work about HTLES for natural convection


10 May 2021
The paper of Vladimir is published online:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-021-00264-z


23 April 2021
The paper describing the development of a new hybrid RANS/LES method in Task 3.1 has been accepted for publication in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion:

Duffal, V.; de Laage de Meux, B. & Manceau, R. Development and Validation of a new formulation of Hybrid Temporal Large Eddy Simulation Flow Turbul. Combust., in press.

It is the second peer-reviewed journal paper issued from the work of the MONACO_2025 project. Congrats!


4 January 2021
Dr. S.M. Saad Jameel started a new position in the project: as a post-doc, he is going to carry out Tasks 5.1 and 5.2.


8 December 2020
(Dr.) S.M. Saad Jameel defended his PhD entitled

Jameel, S. Turbulence modelling of mixed and natural convection regimes in the context of the underhood-space of automobiles Université de Pau et des pays de l’Adour, Université de Pau et des pays de l’Adour, 2020

He is the 3rd PhD candidate to obtain his PhD, after Gaëtan Mangeon and Vladimir Duffal. Congrats!


16 November 2020
Vladimir Duffal has obtained his PhD ! His thesis, which describes the work down in Task 3.1, is entitled

Duffal, V. Développement d’un modèle hybride RANS-LES pour l’étude des efforts instationnaires en paroi Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, 2020


20 October 2020
The paper is published !

Mangeon, G.; Benhamadouche, S.; Wald, J.-F. & Manceau, R. Extension to various thermal boundary conditions of the elliptic blending model for the turbulent heat flux and the temperature variance J. Fluid Mech., 905(A1):1-34, 2020.


30 July 2020
The paper describing most of the work of the thesis of Gaëtan Mangeon has been accepted for publication in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. This is the first journal paper issued from the project, and what a paper!

Mangeon, G.; Benhamadouche, S.; Wald, J.-F. & Manceau, R. Extension to various thermal boundary conditions of the elliptic blending model for the turbulent heat flux and the temperature variance J. Fluid Mech., 2020. To appear.


18 June 2020
Due to the Covid-19 outbreak and more specifically the lockdown period, the project Monaco_2025, as all the ANR projects, has been extended by 6 months, i.e., to 31 July 2022


7 April 2020
The 10th Int. Symp. Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer that was to be held at St Petersburg, Russia in July 2020 was postponed to July 2021 due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Both of our presentations have been postponed by one year


11 March 2020
The periodic Monaco_2025 consortium meeting that was scheduled for March 26 in Poitiers has been postponed sine die due to the Covid-19 outbreak


2 March 2020
the abstract

Wald, J.-F.; Mangeon, G.; Benhamadouche, S.; Manceau, R.
Conjugate heat transfer with different fluid-solid physical properties: a differential flux model based on elliptic blending

has been accepted for presentation at the 10th Int. Symp. Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer, St Petersburg, Russia, 2020


26 February 2020

the abstract

Duffal, V.; de Laage de Meux, B. & Manceau, R.
Development and validation of a Hybrid Temporal LES approach for the prediction of unsteady loads in wall-bounded flows

has been accepted for presentation at the 10th Int. Symp. Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer, St Petersburg, Russia, 2020


25 February 2020
Gaëtan Mangeon brilliantly defended in Chatou his doctoral thesis entitled
Modélisation au second ordre des transferts thermiques turbulents pour tous types de conditions aux limites thermiques à la paroi
(Second-moment closure of turbulent heat transfer for all types of boundary conditions at the wall)
in front of a jury composed of
E. Serre (Chair), G. Gerolymos (Reviewer), F. Chedevergne (Reviewer), T. Craft, D. Laurence, S. Benhamadouche

He is the first PhD student involved in the Monaco project to obtain his doctorate. Congratulations to him!


15-16 October 2019

The 16th workshop on Refined Turbulence Modelling was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at the Reactor Center of the Jozef Stefan institute, under the auspices of the SIG-15 of ERCOFTAC. This workshop was organized as a benchmark exercise using DNS databases of the flows in differentially heated channel and cavity. Saad Jameel and P. Reddy’s results were compared to results from other groups from different European countries.

R. Manceau gave the keynote lecture:

Manceau, R. (2019).
Modelling of turbulent natural convection.
16th ERCOFTAC SIG15 Workshop on Modelling of wall bounded turbulent natural convection, 15-16 October 2019, Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS), Ljubljana, Slovenia

and presented the MONACO_2025 project.

It was also announced that it is planned to organize the next SIG-15 workshop at the end of 2021 as the final meeting of the Monaco project.


30 September 2019

The third progress meeting was held in Vélizy-Villacoublay on Monday, 30 september 2019


3-6 September 2019

the 17th European Turbulence Conference (ETC17) was held in Torino, Italy. Saad Jameel presented his recent progress:

S.M.S. Jameel, R. Manceau, and V. Herbert. Sensitization of eddy-viscosity models to buoyancy effects for predicting natural convection flows.


1 August 2019

Vladimir Duffal has presented the results obtained in Task 3.1 at the ASME-JSME-KSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference (AJK-Fluids) in San Francisco

V. Duffal, B. de Laage de Meux, and R. Manceau.
Development and validation of a hybrid RANS/LES approach based on temporal filtering.
In Proc. ASME-JSME-KSME Joint Fluids Eng. Conf. 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA. 2019


22-24 July 2019

Saad Jameel has attended the 14th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT 2019) in Wicklow, Ireland. He has given a talk summarizing the results obtained in Task 2.2, entitled

S.M.S. Jameel, R. Manceau, and V. Herbert. Sensitization of eddy-viscosity models to buoyancy effects for predicting natural convection flows.


7 May 2019

Gaëtan Mangeon has presented progress made in the issue of treating the solid/fluid interface in conjugate heat transfer problems (task 2.1) and in particular the complex modelling of the discontinuity of the dissipation of the temperature variance

Mangeon, G., Benhamadouche, S., Manceau, R. & Wald, J.-F., Conjugate heat transfer: A big challenge for RANS modeling 2019, Poster presented at the Code-Saturne user meeting, Saclay, 7 May 2019


9 April 2019

The following abstract has been accepted for oral presentation at the ETC17 conference to be held in Torino, Italy, in September 2019 :

S.M.S. Jameel, R. Manceau, and V. Herbert. Sensitization of eddy-viscosity models to buoyancy effects for predicting natural convection flows.


3 April 2019

First visualizations of the flow inside the brand new experimental cavity have been presented by A. Weppe ! Fiat lux !


3 April 2019

The second progress meeting was held in Pau on Tuesday, 2 April 2019


12 February 2019

The abstract

S.M.S. Jameel, R. Manceau, and V. Herbert. Sensitization of eddy-viscosity models to buoyancy effects for predicting natural convection flows

which present the work done so far during the PhD of Saad Jameel (task 2.2) has been accepted for oral presentation at the upcoming 14th Int. Conf. Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT 2019), Wicklow, Ireland. 2019, Wicklow, Ireland (2019)


25 January 2019

The paper

V. Duffal, B. de Laage de Meux, and R. Manceau.
Development and validation of a hybrid RANS/LES approach based on temporal filtering.
In Proc. ASME-JSME-KSME Joint Fluids Eng. Conf. 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA. 2019

has been submitted to the upcoming ASME conference. Results obtained in the frame of the PhD of Vladimir Duffal (task 3.1) are presented


23 October 2018

The first progress meeting was hosted by EDF R&D in Chatou. A significant progress was shown by the different PhD students. The experimental facility is under construction and first visualizations are expected in early 2019


1st October 2018

Two new students just started their PhD in the framework of the MONACO_2025 project :
Puneeth Reddy on the hybrid RANS/LES modelling of buyoyancy-dominated flows (Task 3.2)
Alexandre Weppe on the experimental study of transient phenomena in differentially-heated cavity flows (Task 4.1)


27 September 2018

Gaëtan Mangeon gave his second presentation at an international symposium in Montpellier :

Mangeon, G.; Benhamadouche, S.; Wald, J.-F. & Manceau, R.
Second-moment closure for the dissipation rate of the temperature variance.
Proc. 12th ERCOFTAC Int. Symp. Eng. Turb. Modelling and Measurements, Montpellier, France, 2018


5 July 2018

First publication by the MONACO_2025 consortium : Gaëtan Mangeon has presented his work on the modelling of the turbulent heat fluxes at the 9th int. Symp. Turb. Heat Mass Transf. in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The reference of this publication is

Mangeon, G., Benhamadouche, S., Wald, J.-F. and Manceau, R.,
Unifying the near-wall treatment of the turbulent heat fluxes for all kinds of temperature boundary conditions with the Elliptic Blending approach.
Proc. 9th Int. Symp. Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2018.


31 May 2018
R. Manceau has presented the project MONACO_2025 during a plenary talk at the 26th French Symposium on Heat Transfer held in Pau


7 May 2018
A PhD position is open
The description is available here
The thesis will start next fall
Deadline for application: 31 May 2018
Please contact remi.manceau(at)univ-pau.fr


23 Avril 2018
The abstract

Second-moment closure for the dissipation rate of the temperature variance
by G. Mangeon, S. Benhamadouche, J.-F. Wald, and R. Manceau

has been accepted for oral presentation at the upcoming 12th ERCOFTAC Int. Symp. on Eng. Turb. Modelling and Measurements to be held in Montpellier, France


27 March 2018

The Kickoff Meeting of MONACO_2025 took place in Poitiers
First results were presented by the 3 PhD students who started ahead of the project
Posters summarizing their work can be found here


5 March 2018
The abstract entitled

Unifying the near-wall treatment of the turbulent heat fluxes for all kinds of temperature boundary conditions with the Elliptic Blending approach,
by G. Mangeon, S. Benhamadouche, J.-F. Wald, and R. Manceau,

has been accepted for oral presentation at the 9th Int. Symp. Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2018


13 July 2017
The project MONACO_2025 has been selected by the ANR committee!
The success rate is as low as 12.6%
Only 914 projects were selected among 7260 proposals!
It should start in early 2018


4 April 2017
The project MONACO_2025 has been submitted to ANR, as a response to the Generic call for proposals, in the societal challenge Clean, secure and efficient energy
Fingers crossed!

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