Hugues PRETREL Laboratoire d`Expérimentation des Feux

Hugues PRETREL
Laboratoire d'Expérimentation des Feux - Fire Test Laboratory
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN)
Centre de Cadarache - Bâtiment 346
13 115 Saint Paul Lez Durance – France
Tel: +33 (0)4 42 19 96 65 Fax: +33 (0)4 42 19 91 63
[email protected]
Research Engineer, Ph. D,
Test director for large scale fire experiments
IRSN expert on fire science
Research Activities
Combustion, Fire engineering, Fire science, Fluid dynamics, Heat transfer
Compartment fires with mechanical ventilation (application to scenario in nuclear industry),
pressure instabilities in compartment fires, effect of mechanical ventilation on fires, Lowventilation fires, extinction process, Scale effect,
Cables fires, cables electrical failures,
Flows and smoke propagation in compartment fire
Measurement techniques (velocity, temperature), large scale experiments, reduced-scale
approaches
Education
1998 Postdoctoral activities: Research engineer on European Brite Euram project
(ACCIACOC): Active control of combustion instabilities in gas turbine Cambridge University Engineering Department (UK)
1997 Ph. D in Applied Science (Thermal engineering) - INSA Lyon (Fr) & von Karman
Institute (Bel),1997 On the behaviour of water spray curtain under the effect of thermal
radiation-Application to fire protection.
1991-92 Diploma Course on fluid dynamics - von Karman Institute For Fluid Dynamic
1990 « Diplôme d’ingénieur », Ecole Supérieure d’ingénieurs de Poitiers (ESIP), 1987-1990