Research News 2024

The Centrale Nantes campus will play host to the 19th edition of the Hydrodynamics Days (Journées de l'Hydrodynamique), organised by the Research Laboratory in Hydrodynamics, Energetics & Atmospheric Environment (LHEEA) from Tuesday 26 to Thursday 28 November 2024.

As part of the National Science Fair (Fête de la science), which will focus on the theme of ‘Ocean of Knowledge’ in 2024, and in the context of the Year of the Sea (2024-2025), the institutions on the ‘Maritime Campus’ - Centrale Nantes, Ifremer and the École Nationale Supérieure Maritime - are coming together and jointly opening their premises to visitors under the banner ‘Seas & Oceans Campus’. We are open to the public from 10 am to 5.30 pm on Saturday 12 October 2024.

The SIS (Engineering and Systems Sciences) Doctoral School, run by Centrale Nantes, is one of the partners of the 5th Infrastar training week (Innovation and Networking for Fatigue and Reliability Analysis of Structures - Training for Assessment of Risk), which will take place from 30 September to 3 October 2024 in Nantes.

Jessy Simon was awarded 2nd prize by ESCM for the best thesis defended in 2022 at ECCM21 (ECCM21 – 21st European Conference on Composite Materials for Academia and Industry), held in Nantes from 2 to 5 July 2024.

This symposium is the worldwide meeting of specialists in research and development in fluid mechanics as they relate to naval hydrodynamics.

Imane Bekrine, a PhD student in the GeM Institute, received the award at the 12th ACI/RILEM International Conference held in Toulouse from 23 to 26 June 2024.

Centrale Nantes and Nantes Université are organising the 21st European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM21), which will be held at the Cité des Congrès in Nantes from 2 to 5 July 2024.

As part of the ExplOr project funded by the Institut CARNOT MERS, an intensive measurement campaign combining wind, wave and aerosol measurements by LiDAR scanning was carried out at Belle-île-en-Mer over the period March-July 2023. The aim of the combined measurements is to document wind-wave interactions over the sea.

This two-day workshop organised by Centrale Nantes and IRN GeoMech, aims to mobilise collective forces to find new directions towards a viable and resilient future.

Centrale Nantes hosted the SCI-TY programme's prematurity committee on Tuesday 26 March.

Centrale Nantes and EDYCEM present their new research orientations for ready-mix concrete, precast concrete and aggregates to reduce the environmental footprint in concrete design.

Bertrand Huneau, senior lecturer at Centrale Nantes and researcher in the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM), will be giving a talk on Tuesday 27 February entitled: "Will there be enough materials for energy transition?"

Following on from the international research chair focusing on clean engines established in January 2014, the international group MANN+HUMMEL and Centrale Nantes are extending their partnership to continue exploring new solutions to improve air quality with sustainable systems that are notably more energy-efficient.

Join us on Thursday 8 February 2024 at Stereolux, Hall 6 Ouest for the 8th edition of the "Nuit Blanche des Chercheurs" organised by Nantes Université on the theme 'Sens dessus-dessous' (from above and below). The event (in French) includes several presentations by Centrale Nantes research teams.