CIFRE PhD in Analytical and Numerical Approaches
Framatome is an international nuclear-energy company that supplies nuclear-plant components, fuel, instrumentation and control systems, and reactor services.
About Framatome
Framatome designs, services, and installs components, fuel, and instrumentation and control systems for the global nuclear fleet. Its current corporate headquarters is in Courbevoie, France, and it is majority-owned by EDF.
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About the Role
You will conduct a three-year doctoral project on implicit coupled partial differential equation systems for reduced multiscale and multiphysics nuclear-reactor models. You will investigate mathematical and physical properties, coupling effects, and implement analytical and numerical models and one-dimensional stationary PDE test problems.
Requirements
- Engineering degree with a strong mathematics component or Master's degree in applied mathematics
- Specialization in analysis, differential equations, and optimization
- Numerical-methods skills
- Experience with PDE systems, ideally multiphysics problems
- Finite-element methods
- FreeFEM
- FEniCS
- Python
- C++
Responsibilities
- Study coupled neutron, thermal, and thermohydraulic equations
- Investigate mathematical and physical properties of reactor models
- Analyse coupling effects in multiphysics systems
- Implement multiscale and multiphysics analytical and numerical models
- Develop toy models based on partial differential equation systems
- Write and solve one-dimensional stationary PDE systems