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Frédéric DUCROS

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Published on 4 March 2025


Frédéric DUCROS

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Senior Expert​

Frédéric Ducros earned a PhD in engineering from INPG Grenoble. He then joined the European Center for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computing in Toulouse, where he stayed from 1996 to 2001. This experience allowed him to develop his knowledge of turbulence modeling.

In 2001, he joined the CEA's nuclear division, where he held several research and management positions. In 2014, he started at CEA-Liten's exchanger and reactor laboratory, which he now heads.

He shifted his research focus to the circular carbon economy in 2021, helping to shape and structure this activity. Since 2023, he has broadened his scope to include topics like energy storage, fuel cells, cycles, and heat exchangers from a thermohydraulic modeling perspective. 

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Do​​mains​​​​

Systèmes, réseaux et efficacité énergétique

Team​

  • ? staff
  • ? postdocs
  • ? PhD students​​​​​

Research Activities​​​

- Thermal;

- Energy; 

- ​​Circular carbon economy.​


Selected publications and conferences:  


  • Could the gasification of Solid Recovered Fuel compete with its incineration? Answer by techno-economic and environmental analysis for the French case, Biomass and Bioenergy, 2025,
    DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2025.108005
  • IDNES a CEA projet dedicated to SMR concept for decarbonization beyond pure power generation, International Conference on Small Modular Reactors and their Applications IAEA Headquarters21, 2024.
  • Local thermal resistance measurement device for fouling detection, Proceedings of the International Conference on Heat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning, 2024.
  • Kriging metamodels-based multi-objective shape optimization applied to a multi-scale heat exchanger, Computers and Fluids, 2021,
    DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2021.104899
  • About the Use of Distributed Threshold Fouling Model at Local Scale in Numerical Simulations, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2019,
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.9b02328

Selected patents: ​

  • 2020 | Thermal switch with passive actuator for thermal link between two elements, on-board system comprising such a switch, FR3114871