Dr Thierry Poinsot received his PhD thesis in heat transfer from Ecole Centrale Paris in 1983 and his These d’Etat in combustion in 1987. He is a research director at IMFT (CNRS) in Toulouse, head of the CFD group at CERFACS, senior research fellow at Stanford University and consultant for various companies.
Dr Poinsot’s research interests are in combustion theory, models and numerical methods for turbulent and laminar flames, combustion instabilities, massively parallel simulations for gas turbines, piston engines, rockets and furnaces. He is the author (with Dr Veynante) of the textbook “Theoretical and numerical combustion” and the Editor in Chief (with Pr F. Egolfopoulos, USC) ofCombustion and Flame.
