High-speed measurements for short duration experiments in harsh environment. Application to high pressure cryogenic combustion for rocket engines (invited conference)
Résumé
Sébastien Ducruix is a senior researcher at CNRS, joining the organization in 2000. With a view to understanding and predicting a wide range of combustion dynamics - from ignition to extinction, from flashback to noise, instabilities, and control - he has developed skills in diagnostics, experiments, theoretical derivations, and high-performance computing. His research team is now composed of a dozen researchers and is located at the Laboratoire EM2C, a CNRS laboratory based on the CentraleSupélec campus, Université Paris-Saclay. His research has been funded by national and European agencies and supported by numerous contracts with the aeronautical and space industries, leading to about 60 articles in the top scientific journals. He became Director of EM2C in 2016 after six years as Deputy Director (~90 members). Sebastien is also among the senior faculty at CentraleSupélec, teaching student engineers in the final year before graduation. He has been the Head of the French-German initiative REST on Rocket Engine stability since 2014 and Co-Director of the Paris-Saclay Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics since 2021.