An exceptional symposium in the heart of the Phocaean city
After more than 7 years without a physical event, the INCA combustion community came together on November 5 and 6 for the 6th INCA symposium. For the occasion, M2P2, a member of the IMI community, and Safran, brought together members of the INCA network for 2 days at the MUCEM, to share the latest advances in Research in the field of combustion applied to aeronautical propulsion. IMI (Institut Mécanique et Ingénierie) sponsored and helped organize this highly successful event.
The INCA network, a community over 20 years old!
For many decades now, the French combustion community has been a major player Internationally, with many CNRS laboratories renowned for their diverse expertise. To create synergies between academia and industry, and accelerate the transfer of technology from fundamental research to industrial applications, Safran, ONERA (Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales) and CNRS signed an agreement in 2002 giving birth to the INCA (Initiative en Combustion Avancée) network. For the past 20 years, Safran and its partners, including M2P2, have been working together on these topics.
A fruitful collaboration between our M2P2 laboratory and Safran
The INCA network brings together the major centers of excellence in combustion, whose complementary skills and cultures enhance their capacity for innovation and creativity. Research activities are geared to meeting the major issues and challenges of tomorrow, in particular the reduction of pollutant emissions and the decarbonization of the aviation sector. For the aerospace and defense equipment manufacturer, the INCA ecosystem is a source of laboratory experiments, models and calculation codes, which improve understanding of phenomenology, feed databases and help engineers design the engines of the future.
In this quest for excellence and scientific progress, it's not unusual for Safran to collaborate with M2P2. Indeed, our Clean Mechanics, Modeling and Processes laboratory has a new generation of tools to help advance research in the field of combustion. Safran and M2P2 have already collaborated in the past, whether through the European Hestia project or the ANR LIBERTY industrial chair, held by Dr. Pierre Boivin. This chair is a concrete example of the cooperation between the two organizations, and illustrates M2P2's expertise in the development of Lattice-Boltzmann (LBM) methods used to simulate realistic industrial applications such as aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, aerothermics and reactive flows.
