INPT – INSTITUT NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE DE TOULOUSE
DESCRIPTION
INPT (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse) is a technical university focusing on engineering sciences. Within INPT, IMFT (“Toulouse Institute of Fluids Mechanics” - https://www.imft.fr//) is a joint research laboratory run by the CNRS, the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT) and the Paul Sabatier University (UPS). IMFT has a staff of about 209 people, with 71 academics (including 15 CNRS researchers), 36 engineers, technicians and administrative staff, about 80 PhD students and 22 post-docs. The porous and biological media group M&B is one of the six research groups of IMFT and is internationally known for its research on transport phenomena in porous media. In direct link with the present project, the works devoted to pore scale simulations and theoretical upscaling analysis are among the best known internationally.
ROLE IN THE PROJECT
Our team develops fundamental research on transport phenomena in porous media. In this project, our general objective is to develop digital chains enabling one to digitally reconstruct porous components and to characterize their transport properties via numerical simulations. For example, in the case of the catalyst layers (CL), the objective is to numerically generate CL microstructures depending on the ink properties and fabrication process and then to obtain the CL transport properties from pore scale simulations on the reconstructed CL 3D digital images. This approach will be first developed in Task 1.4 and continued in Tasks 2.1 and 2.2. The developed approach will be applied in Tasks 4.2 and 4.3 to fluorine-free ionomer materials.