LEMTA

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A Word From The Director

Multidisciplinarity and transversality : from understanding to application...

LEMTA (Laboratoire d'Energétique et de Mécanique Théorique et Appliquée) a joint research unit linked with with CNRS and Nancy University focuses its research activity on mechanics and energy. LEMTA is one of the 5 laboratories of the "Fédération Jacques Villermaux pour la Mécanique, l'Énergie et les Procédés", a large laboratory consortium with transdisciplinary competences. The research activities are organized around Fluid Media, Energy and Transfers and Solid Mechanics. Hosting three research departments (Reacting, Multiphase Fluid Media, Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Energy and Transfers), the laboratory's research is centred around three main axis of excellence: measurement science in complex media, multi-physics/multi-scale modelling and multiphase media.

Our activities are harmoniously and equally divided between basic research, social or environmental questions and applied research. Modelling of forest fires, fire-fighting, nuclear waste disposal, fuel cells, droplet combustion, the improvement of steel and glass manufacturing processes, bio-engineering and petroleum engineering are a few of the applications of the work derived from the research activities of LEMTA's 79 researchers, the same number of PhD and post doctoral students and 24 technical and administrative staff. These applications are made possible thanks to the development and use of sophisticated measurement techniques: for example, NMR, usually devoted to medical applications, for the visualisation and quantitative analysis of flows in non transparent media, fluorescence based diagnosis, infrared thermography at high temperature and rheo-physics apparatus. The laboratory is fully committed to an international outlook and as such is involved in cooperation work with leading world laboratories and more particularly with European laboratories, all of which leads to the production of joint papers, work on European contracts and network building.

LEMTA cooperates with many institutional partners, research centres and industrial partners and participates or coordinates several ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, the French National Research Agency) research programs. It coordinates the joint CNRS and ONERA research program into experiments and simulation of multicomponent sprays and is involved in a joint laboratory with Institut National sur la Recherche et la Sécurité (National Research and Safety Institute). Our industrial partners include ARCELOR-MITTAL for the steel manufacturing processes development, our partnership with HELION (AREVA) and AIR LIQUIDE working on fuel cells, the development of measurement techniques in fluid flows with DANTEC DYNAMICS, collaborations with AIRBUS on the thermal management of aircraft engines, Daum or Baccarat for glass processing, Schlumberger and Total for the petroleum industry, and the car manufacturers Renault and Peugeot among others.

Fabrice Lemoine, Director of LEMTA