Clair Vincent

Vincent Clair is a graduate of the École d'Ingénieurs en Génie des Systèmes Industriels (EIGSI) and holds a master's degree in numerical modeling in mechanics from the University of La Rochelle. He received a doctorate in acoustics from Université Claude-Bernard-Lyon-1 in 2013 for his thesis work carried out at ONERA in the aeroacoustics unit. He then completed apostdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton within the Rolls-Royce University Technology Center in Gas Turbine Noise. He joined École Centrale de Lyon in 2016 as lecturer in the department of Fluid Mechanics, Acoustics and Energetics (MFAE) and of the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics (LMFA - UMR CNRS 5509). His research activities focus on the numerical simulation of turbomachinery noise as well as on the scattering of acoustic waves by turbulence.

Research projects

• project MAMBO (Méthodes Avancées pour la Modélisation du Bruit Moteur et aviOn), funded by the DGAC. Its activities concern the experimental study of acoustic wave scattering by turbulence present in acoustic wind tunnels and the corrections that can be applied in acoustic antenna methods to improve the localization of the acoustic sources studied.
• project INNOSTAT (INNOvative STATor), funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Cleansky 2 program. Scientific leader of the project. This project aims to design and study aeronautical fan straightener blades to reduce aircraft engine noise. Concepts proposed by the various project partners have been tested in LMFA's wind tunnels at different levels of technological maturity.
• Chaire industrielle ARENA (AeRoacoustics of nEw eNgine Architectures in aeronautics), funded by ANR and Safran Aircraft Engines. Co-supervision of a thesis on high-fidelity numerical simulation of the aerodynamics and acoustics of a part-regime aeronautical fan.
• Co-supervision of a thesis on high-fidelity numerical simulation of the aerodynamics and acoustics radiated by a turbojet fan in transonic regime. Funding: Thesis grant from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research - Co-supervision of a thesis in partnership with Siemens Industry Software and LAUM (Le Mans Univ.) on the development of numerical methods for the simulation of acoustic scattering by turbulence. Funding: CIFRE (Siemens Industry Software)

Training activities

• General acoustics: acoustic sources and sound propagation. MSc Acoustics M2 and 3rd year general engineering courses.
• Noises of aerodynamic origin. MSc Acoustics M2 and 3rd year general engineering courses.
• Air and ground transport noise. MSc Acoustics M2 and 3rd year general engineering courses.
• Numerical methods for acoustics. MSc Acoustics M1 course. - Fluids and Energy (FLE). 1st year teaching unit of the general engineering curriculum.
• Acoustics and Vibration Projects for the Aeronautics option in the 3rd year of the general engineering curriculum.
• Study projects in the 1st year of the generalist engineering curriculum on the study of room acoustics (amphitheater, auditorium, school canteen...)