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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
France
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
92
Citations
41429
World Ranking
100
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in France Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for brilliant numerical investigations of complex reactive flows including near-realistic combustion systems

Overview

Thierry Poinsot is affiliated with the Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse in France and has an extensive publication record in the fields of engineering and chemical engineering. Their research primarily focuses on combustion and flame dynamics, advanced combustion engine technologies, and combustion and detonation processes.

The scientist's work spans several subfields, including computational mechanics, fluid flow and transfer processes, aerospace engineering, safety, risk, reliability and quality, and environmental engineering. Their expertise is reflected in the frequent publication venues selected for their research, such as Combustion and Flame, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, and Flow Turbulence and Combustion.

Major topics covered in their research include:

  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies
  • Combustion and Detonation Processes
  • Fire dynamics and safety research
  • Rocket and propulsion systems research
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies

Some of their recent publications illustrate key areas of investigation:

  • Dynamics and control of premixed combustion systems based on flame transfer and describing functions, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Suppression of instabilities of swirled premixed flames with minimal secondary hydrogen injection, 2020, Combustion and Flame
  • Hydrogen substitution of natural-gas in premixed burners and implications for blow-off and flashback limits, 2022, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Stabilization regimes and pollutant emissions from a dual fuel CH4/H2 and dual swirl low NOx burner, 2022, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Stabilization mechanisms of CH4 premixed swirled flame enriched with a non-premixed hydrogen injection, 2020, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Throughout their career, Thierry Poinsot has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Davide Laera, Thierry Schuller, Laurent Selle, Laurent Gicquel, and Andrea Aniello. These collaborations have contributed to a multidisciplinary approach in the study of combustion and fluid mechanics.

Recognition of their work includes the award of Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018, granted for investigations into complex reactive flows involving near-realistic combustion systems.

Best Publications

  • Theoretical and numerical combustion

    Thierry Poinsot;Denis Veynante

  • Boundary conditions for direct simulations of compressible viscous flows

    Thierry Poinsot

  • A thickened flame model for large eddy simulations of turbulent premixed combustion

    O. Colin;F. Ducros;D. Veynante;Thierry Poinsot

  • A review of active control of combustion instabilities

    K.R. McManus;T. Poinsot;S.M. Candel

  • Flame Stretch and the Balance Equation for the Flame Area

    Sebastien M. Candel;Thierry J. Poinsot

  • Large-Eddy Simulation of the Shock/Turbulence Interaction

    F Ducros;V Ferrand;F Nicoud;C Weber

  • Vortex-driven acoustically coupled combustion instabilities

    Thierry J. Poinsot;Arnaud C. Trouve;Denis P. Veynante;Sebastien M. Candel

  • Prediction and control of combustion instabilities in real engines

    Thierry Poinsot;Thierry Poinsot

  • Compressible large eddy simulation of turbulent combustion in complex geometry on unstructured meshes

    Laurent Selle;Ghislain Lartigue;Thierry Poinsot;R. Koch

  • Stretching and quenching of flamelets in premixed turbulent combustion

    C Meneveau;T Poinsot

  • Large Eddy Simulations of gaseous flames in gas turbine combustion chambers

    Laurent Y.M. Gicquel;Gabriel Staffelbach;Thierry Poinsot

  • Quenching processes and premixed turbulent combustion diagrams

    T. J. Poinsot;D. Veynante;S. Candel

  • The evolution equation for the flame surface density in turbulent premixed combustion

    Arnaud Trouvé;Thierry Poinsot

  • Studies of mean and unsteady flow in a swirled combustor using experiments, acoustic analysis, and large eddy simulations

    S. Roux;G. Lartigue;T. Poinsot;U. Meier

  • Acoustic modes in combustors with complex impedances and multidimensional active flames

    Franck Nicoud;Laurent Benoit;Claude Sensiau;Thierry Poinsot

  • Accurate Boundary Conditions for Multicomponent Reactive Flows

    M. Baum;T. Poinsot;D. Thévenin

  • A two-step chemical scheme for kerosene–air premixed flames

    B. Franzelli;E. Riber;M. Sanjosé;Thierry Poinsot

  • Numerical simulations of autoignition in turbulent mixing flows

    E. Mastorakos;T.A. Baritaud;T.J. Poinsot

  • LES of an ignition sequence in a gas turbine engine

    M. Boileau;G. Staffelbach;B. Cuenot;T. Poinsot

  • Numerical methods for unsteady compressible multi-component reacting flows on fixed and moving grids

    V. Moureau;G. Lartigue;Y. Sommerer;C. Angelberger

  • Large Eddy Simulation of self excited azimuthal modes in annular combustors

    G. Staffelbach;L.Y.M. Gicquel;G. Boudier;T. Poinsot

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Gicquel
Laurent Gicquel Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique
Franck Nicoud
Franck Nicoud University of Montpellier
Bénédicte Cuenot
Bénédicte Cuenot Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique
Gabriel Staffelbach
Gabriel Staffelbach Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales
Sébastien Candel
Sébastien Candel CentraleSupélec
Denis Veynante
Denis Veynante CentraleSupélec
Stéphane Moreau
Stéphane Moreau Université de Sherbrooke
Daniel C. Haworth
Daniel C. Haworth Pennsylvania State University
Sébastien Ducruix
Sébastien Ducruix University of Paris-Saclay
Epaminondas Mastorakos
Epaminondas Mastorakos University of Cambridge

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