Pumas team
Inria Sophia-Antipolis
2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93
06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex

My research activities deal with  the development of simulation methods in engineering and physics. These include modeling issues for complex systems, discretization methods and solution algorithms such as multigrid and implicit schemes. Parallel computing is mandatory to solve today large scale problems and I am therefore also interested in parallel and distributed computations. The application areas are classical aerodynamics, energy industries and more recently plasma physics as well as some more exotic topics such as Astrophysical flows. These researches were done first in the team-project SINUS at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, then in the team-project SMASH that I have created and directed from 2002 to 2007. Since 2008, I am responsible of the PUMAS team whose main objective is to develop simulation methods for controlled fusion. Pumas is a joint team between Inria Sophia-Antipolis and the  Laboratoire Jean-Alexandre Dieudonné of the  University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis

Current domains of interest :

Two-phase flow and multifluid modeling	Low Mach number flows
Astrophysical flows	Multigrid algorithms : Geometrical MG, Algebraic MG
Parallel and Grid computing	Large scale CFD applications
Plasma physics and controlled fusion	Shallow water and Environmental flows