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06 January 2020
System Simulation of Combustion in Direct-Injection Spark-Ignition Engines
Future constraints on pollutant emissions pushed car manufacturers towards Direct-Injection Spark-Ignition (DI-SI) technologies to improve engine performances and reduce both fuel consumption and emissions.
Innovation and Industry
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01 September 2017
Connected and driverless vehicles: IFPEN welcomes Professor Ardalan Vahidi
Fundamental Research
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01 March 2017
Scientific visit to IFPEN by Per-Olof Gutman, Professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)
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SmartEole project: making better use of wind through smart rotors
The rapid development of wind energy production depends, to a great extent, on improving its energy efficiency and its economic profitability. To maximize performance and operating life spans, the
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Hybrid vehicle energy management optimization within the framework of the partnership with INRIA
The scientific cooperation agreement signed with INRIA in 2015 covers two fields: the “digital and IT performance of simulators” and the “control and optimization of complex systems”. A thesis carried
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Optimizing the electric cable of a floating wind turbine
Floating wind turbine technologies, such as those co-developed by SBM and IFPENa , are designed to optimize the recovery of offshore wind energy. Optimization solutions are currently being sought to
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Stored heat
Energy storage, one of the major challenges within the context of the energy transition, can take a variety of forms. For heat storage, one of the solutions developed at IFPEN is based on a fixed
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Ignition simulation
In order to reduce fuel consumption in gasoline engines, manufacturers are focusing their efforts on turbocharging and downsizing. However, this option leads to an increase in the knock phenomenon
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Life and death of soot: a model to control the phenomenon
Vehicle approval standards require increasingly high levels of engine performance (low fuel consumption and low emissions) over a broad working range. It is for this reason that new engine
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Floating wind turbine: increasing reliability in an “ocean of possibilities”
The optimal design of mechanical structures is hampered by the imperfect knowledge of the environmental conditions under which they will operate. The systematic incorporation of the resulting