The recent advances in high fidelity modeling and high performance computing today make numerical simulation a powerful tool to study and control unsteady reacting turbulent atmospheric flows. It is of particular interest to predict various situations in the fields of air pollution and safety. In such problems, the accurate description of the interaction between turbulence and chemistry is necessary to compute mean values, but also maxima of the quantities of interest.

In this talk, some aspects of the modeling and simulation of air pollution and safety problems will be presented, in the context of the Large Eddy Simulation approach. The method will be then illustrated on few examples such as wildfires, dry aerosol transport, environmental impact of aircrafts or explosions of industrial plants.

 

Dr B. Cuenot obtained her engineering and master degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1990. After one year as research engineer in the University of Boulder (CO, USA), she came back to France where she defended her PhD in 1995 and HdR in 2000, both in the field of numerical combustion. She is now the leader of the combustion research group at CERFACS, developping advanced softwares for the numerical simulation of turbulent combustion and heat transfer in industrial systems. Dr. Cuenot teaches combustion in various universities and has authored about 70 peer-reviewed journal papers. She is also much experienced in coordinating international projects, mainly financed by the European Commission where she also acts as an expert evaluator.