FET Young Explorers

David Le Touzé

Background

After his M.Sc. Engineering in 2000, he got his PhD at Ecole Centrale of Nantes in 2003 on the development of spectral methods to simulate the generation and propagation of gravity waves in the ocean and in wave basins. In 2004-2005, he did a 2-year post-doc at the INSEAN research institute of Rome, Italy, on the development of an innovative particle method, SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics), for the simulation of complex free-surface flows. He reintegrated the Hydrodynamic and Ocean Engineering in 2006 as Associate professor. Within that group, he is responsible of activities on fast dynamics flows and multi-physics couplings, and of different projects for the public research, the navy, and the oil and gas industry. He is now head of the SPHERIC research community on the SPH method, which gathers 85 academic and industrial entities of 26 countries

FET-Open funded projects

In 2008, with 6 European partners of different application fields (marine, turbine and bio-medical engineering, and High-Performance Computing) he proposed the NextMuSE project to the FET-Open scheme, which was one of the 8 projects selected out of 110. This project, based on specific assets of the meshless SPH numerical method, aims at initiating a paradigm shift in CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), and beyond in CMM (Computational Multi-Mechanics). Within the project, realistic engineering applications are simulated on massive parallel architectures and immersively visualized and steered during the simulation through the development of a specific interface called ICARUS.