Industrial Applications
Our mathematical research is motivated by and applied to real-world industrial challenges. By combining multiscale modeling with CFD and uncertainty quantification, we provide robust solutions across several sectors.
Key Industrial Application Areas
- Energy & Subsurface Exploration: Modeling fractured reservoirs, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), and unconventional risks.
- Manufacturing & Materials: Poro-mechanics in advanced composite structures and fusion energy components.
- Biomedical & Healthcare: Brain tissue deformation modeling for neurosurgery and thermal ablation for tumor treatment.
- Food Processing: Solid-fluid coupled simulations for freezing and thermal processing (e.g., with Mondelez, Cranswick).
- Chemical Engineering: Population balance modeling for crystallization, combustion, and multiphase flows.
- Environment: Long-term mechanical evolution and ecohydrological modeling of peatlands (MPeat).
- Battery Technology: Multiscale degradation and performance modeling for next-generation electrification.
Our Partners
We collaborate with a wide range of industrial partners to turn theoretical breakthroughs into operational tools:
- TOTAL (Molecular communication and sensing)
- DOW (Chemical processing and materials)
- Mondelez (Food engineering and processing)
- Cranswick (Industrial food processing)
- ASCOMP (Advanced CFD software development)
- NE Scientific (Biomedical and thermal modeling)