Entry requirements

A general Licence degree in mechanics, physics or maths with a suitable foundation in solid and fluid mechanics. For the second year, students who have passed the first year of the Master’s in Modelling and Simulation in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer are automatically accepted. Second-year applicants who hold a different first-year Master’s, an engineering degree or a foreign degree and have sufficient training in fluid mechanics and numerical methods are accepted based on their application.

Benefits of the program

One of the aims of the Modelling and Simulation in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer programme is to give students high-level scientific skills in modelling and numerical simulation in fluid mechanics and heat transfer, including from a practical point of view. To this end, 30% of the course in the first year and 50% in the second year are based on concrete simulation projects involving the different physical phenomena covered in class. In this way, students are familiarised with every stage of the project, from definition, implementation and validation to presentation of the results.

Acquired skills

Ability to understand, analyse and model physical phenomena in solid and fluid mechanics and the associated types of transfer.

Ability to implement numerical methods by developing prototype codes.

Mastery of the leading commercial codes used in this field in industry and research laboratories.

Ability to present findings in writing and orally in French and English.

International

Students can spend a semester abroad as part of the Erasmus Mundus network or do their Master 2 work placement abroad.

Capacities

Université Gustave Eiffel : 18

UPEC : 18

Course venue

Your future career

Graduates can work as computational engineers, research and development engineers or consultants in the field of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and energy. The main sectors concerned are energy, the environment, transport (automotive, aeronautics, naval, etc.) and materials processing (metals, glass, plastics, etc.). Graduates of this specialisation can also pursue a PhD. They can then go into teaching and/or research in a university, institute, school or national or international organisation.

Professional integration

Sectors recruiting:

• Energy and the environment,

• Transport (automobile, aeronautics, aerospace, naval, rail),

• Housing,

• Materials processing (metallurgy, plastics, glass),

• Engineering and consulting, IT engineering services company,

• Food industry, etc.

Skills in mechanics are required in all sectors of industry.

Careers:

• Computational and simulation engineer,

• Research and development engineer,

• Mechanical engineer,

• Consultant in the fields of mechanics and energy,

• Project manager, business engineer.

Further study:

This course also prepares students for research professions in the fields of fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Graduates of this specialisation can also pursue a PhD. They can then enter professions in higher education and/or research at universities, institutes, schools and national or international organisations.

Study objectives

The Modelling and Simulation in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer programme of the Mechanics Master’s is designed to equip students with the following skills:

- mastery of the general theories, concepts and tools in the fields of fluid mechanics and transfer;

- ability to analyse and summarise complex information;

- ability to solve a problem independently;

- ability to launch and complete a numerical modelling project.

More specifically, students acquire the following skills:

- ability to understand and analyse the physical phenomena involved in fluid mechanics and heat transfer as well as notions of solid mechanics;

- ability to model these phenomena mathematically at the scale of the material and notions of the microscopic scale;

- ability to implement and analyse the associated numerical methods (finite differences, finite volumes, finite elements) by developing prototype codes using programming languages (Matlab, Fortran or C);

- mastery of the leading commercial codes in the field that are widely used in industry and research laboratories (ANSYS, Fluent, Comsol-Multiphysics, etc.) ;

- ability to present findings in writing and orally in French and English.

Major thematics of study

In the first year of the Modelling and Simulation in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer Master’s:

Continuum mechanics and thermomechanics;

Fluid mechanics; elasticity;

Heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation);

Modelling and numerical simulation of flows and heat transfer;

Numerical analysis and scientific computing;

Programming in Fortran and Matlab;

Acoustic waves;

English.

In the second year of the Modelling and Simulation in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer Master’s:

Physics and turbulence modelling;

Multiphase flows and phase change;

Flows and transfers in porous media;

Fluid / structure interaction;

Advanced use of CFD simulation programs;

The finite volume method;

Numerical simulation projects.

Calendar

Term starts: end of September in M1 and M2;

Term ends: end of May in M1 and mid-February in M2;

M2 work placement starts: mid-February; defence: mid-September.

Options

In the first year, the Modelling and Simulation in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer programme has three optional units. One unit focuses on radiation heat transfer and its simulation. Another unit focuses on forced and natural convection in pipes and external flows, with applications to heat exchangers. The final unit focuses on advanced fluid mechanics (compressible and non-Newtonian flows) and includes practical work in which experimental techniques (laser Doppler velocimetry, thermometry, viscosimetry) and specific physical phenomena (boiling, radiation transfer, etc.) are presented.

Back-to-school date

09-23-2024