Multidisciplinary functions to the benefit of Engineering Sciences and a commitment to energy transition
A joint research unit of the University of Lorraine and the CNRS, the LEMTA (Laboratoire Énergies et Mécanique Théorique et Appliquée, UMR 7563), focuses its research activities on Mechanics and Energy and is one of the 5 laboratories of the Jacques Villermaux Research Federation for Mechanics, Energy and Processes. Organized in three research departments and a transverse scientific axis on Magnetic Raisonance Imagery (MRI), the Laboratory contributes to create new knowledge in the field of engineering sciences. This research is carried out by nearly 75 academic staff, 30 administrative and technical staff distributed in shared research support services (finance & administration, mechanical design and manufacturing, electronics & instrumentation, logistics and projects, IT & computing) and about 60 PhD students and post-doctoral fellows.
Cutting-edge equipment for research
All of our research themes on fluids and energies are supposed by first-class technological platforms and the development of particularly innovative measurement techniques. For example, the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (NMRI) platform, a technique traditionally used in the medical field, is used for the quantitative analysis of flows in opaque media, such as porous media or complex flows in confined environments. A total of nine platforms bring together the Laboratory’s lighthouse experimental resources (thermal characterization of materials, radiative transfer, rheometry, fluid metrology, fires and fires, NMR/MRI, soil mechanics, mechanical characterization, fuel cells). Sophisticated non-intrusive commercial techniques (PIV, infrared thermography, laser velocimetry) are implemented as well as those developed in the Laboratory (laser-induced fluorescence, rheo-optics, light scattering based-techniques, thermography and multispectral imaging for high temperatures). In addition, the use of cluster computation, a facility shared with other laboratories in Lorraine, helps to strengthen the resources in intensive computing. Modeling, simulation and identification of properties by inverse methods are the other complementary strengths of the laboratory.
A laboratory open to cooperation with industrial and international world
LEMTA is a member of the Institut Carnot ICEEL and collaborates with many institutional partners, research centers and industrials. Among its privileged institutional partners : ONERA, CEA, CSTB, IRSN, INRS (which two joint research topics are shares). LEMTA participates or coordinates many programs of the French National Research Agency (ANR) and collaborates with major industrial partners : ArcelorMittal, AIR LIQUIDE, AREVA-Hydrogène, EDF, AIRBUS, SAFRAN, Schlumberger, TOTAL, General Electric, Schneider Electric, SAINT-GOBAIN, Valeo, Vallourec or DANTEC DYNAMICS, …
Open on an international level, the Laboratory is involved in numerous cooperations with European or worldwide laboratories. LEMTA is also active in two joint programs of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA), one concerning materials and processes for energy applications (AMPEA), the other fuel cells and hydrogen (FCH).