Presenter

Yvan Fournier obtained a "diplôme d’ingénieur" (equivalent to a Master) in aeronautics in 1994 from École Centrale Paris. He has worked as a researcher at EDF R&D since 1998, and is currently a principal research engineer, working on various HPC, pre and post-processing, and software engineering aspects of EDF’s CFD in-house codes, mainly Code_Saturne (code-saturne.org). His current interests include in-situ mesh improvement and post-processing, distributed algorithms, software engineering, and high performance computing. Past interests also include CFD modeling of cooling towers and PWR fuel assemblies.