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Publications

Browse our research publications of the last few years.

Preprints

  • Oliveira Ferreira, Victor, Mainville, Wiebke, Raymond, Vincent, Lamarre, Jean-Michel, Hamel, Antoine, Vaillant, Mikael, Chioua, Moncef, Blais, Bruno. “Active Cooling Device: A Flexible, Lab-Scale Experimental Unit to Develop Spatio-Temporal Temperature Control Strategies.” arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2510.18987, 2025.

  • Gaboriault, Olivier, Timercan, Anatolie, Pelletier, Roger, Lefebvre, Louis-Philippe, Melancon, David, Blais, Bruno. “Increase in packing density during multi-layer powder spreading: An experimental and numerical study.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.26402, 2025.

  • Vaillant, Mikael, Ferreira, Victor Oliveira, Mainville, Wiebke, Lamarre, Jean-Michel, Raymond, Vincent, Chioua, Moncef, Blais, Bruno. “Surrogate Model for Heat Transfer Prediction in Impinging Jet Arrays using Dynamic Inlet/Outlet and Flow Rate Control.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.07034, 2025.

Recent Journal Publications

2025

  • Saavedra, Laura Prieto, Munch, Peter, Blais, Bruno. “A matrix-free stabilized solver for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.” Journal of Computational Physics, 538.0, 114186, 2025.
  • Collard-Daigneault, Audrey, Vidal, David, Bertrand, François, Blais, Bruno. “Enhancing the computational performance of granular flow simulations in DEM and CFD-DEM with Adaptive Sparse Contacts (ASC).” Powder Technology, 452.0, 120530, 2025.
  • Guévremont, Olivier, Barbeau, Lucka, Moreau, Vaiana, Galli, Federico, Virgilio, Nick, Blais, Bruno. “Robust pore-resolved CFD through porous monoliths reconstructed by micro-computed tomography: From digitization to flow prediction.” Chemical Engineering Journal, 504.0, 158577, 2025.
  • Schieppati, Dalma, Fattahi, Kobra, Blais, Bruno, Boffito, Daria Camilla, Denner, Fabian. “Acoustic wave propagation in liquid medium and damping mechanisms: modeling and simulation.” Modeling and Simulation of Sono-Processes, 35-57, 2025.
  • Badran, Youssef, Dupuy, Dorian, Blais, Bruno, Moureau, Vincent, Ansart, Renaud, Chaouki, Jamal, Simonin, Olivier. “Meso-scale numerical analysis of the role of Van der Waals adhesion and static friction in fluidized beds of fine solids.” Powder Technology, 455.0, 120763, 2025.
  • Mirakhori, Ghazaleh, Doucet, Jocelyn, Chidami, Saad, Blais, Bruno, Chaouki, Jamal. “AI-enhanced radioactive particle tracking: A practical methodology for accelerating industrial process development.” Chemical Engineering Science, 318.0, 122173, 2025.
  • Prieto Saavedra, Laura, Archambault, Joël, Munch, Peter, Blais, Bruno. “An implicit large-eddy simulation study of the turbulent Taylor-Couette flow with an inner rotating cylinder.” Journal of Turbulence, 1-15, 2025.
  • Alphonius, Amishga, Barbeau, Lucka, Blais, Bruno, Gaboriault, Olivier, Guévremont, Olivier, Lamouche, Justin, Laurentin, Pierre, Marquis, Oreste, Munch, Peter, Ferreira, Victor Oliveira. “Lethe 1.0: An open-source parallel high-order computational fluid dynamics software framework for single and multiphase flows.” Computer Physics Communications, 109880, 2025.

2024

  • Saavedra, Laura Prieto, Radburn, Catherine E Niamh, Collard-Daigneault, Audrey, Blais, Bruno. “An implicit large-eddy simulation perspective on the flow over periodic hills.” Computers & Fluids, 283.0, 106390, 2024.0.
  • Patience, Gregory S, Villasana, Yanet, Blais, Bruno. “Perspectives on judging posters.” The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 102.0(1.0), 4-10, 2024.0.
  • Barbeau, Lucka, Golshan, Shahab, Deng, Jieyao, Étienne, Stéphane, Béguin, Cédric, Blais, Bruno. “High-order moving immersed boundary and its application to a resolved CFD-DEM model.” Computers & Fluids, 268.0, 106094, 2024.0.
  • Barbeau, Lucka, Étienne, Stéphane, Béguin, Cédric, Blais, Bruno. “Solid–fluid force modeling: Insights from comparing a reduced order model for a pair of particles with resolved CFD-DEM.” International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 178.0, 104882, 2024.0.
  • Schieppati, Dalma, Mohan, Mood, Blais, Bruno, Fattahi, Kobra, Patience, Gregory S, Simmons, Blake A, Singh, Seema, Boffito, Daria C. “Characterization of the acoustic cavitation in ionic liquids in a horn-type ultrasound reactor.” Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 102.0, 106721, 2024.0.
  • Bibeau, Valérie, Boffito, Daria Camilla, Blais, Bruno. “Physics-informed Neural Network to predict kinetics of biodiesel production in microwave reactors.” Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process Intensification, 196.0, 109652, 2024.0.
  • Oliveira Ferreira, Victor, Blais, Bruno, Cantarelli Lopes, Gabriela. “CFD-DEM study of mixing in a monodispersed solid-liquid fluidized bed.” arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2406.15674, 2024.0.
  • Guévremont, Olivier, Barbeau, Lucka, Moreau, Vaiana, Galli, Federico, Virgilio, Nick, Blais, Bruno. “Pore-resolved CFD in Digital Twin of Porous Monoliths Reconstructed by Micro-computed Tomography.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.04711, 2024.0.
  • Mirakhori, Ghazaleh, Doucet, Jocelyn, Chidami, Saad, Blais, Bruno, Chaouki, Jamal. “AI-Enhanced Radioactive Particle Tracking: A Game Changing Methodology for Accelerating Industrial Process Development.” Authorea Preprints, 2024.0.
  • Bangerth, Wolfgang, Kronbichler, Martin, Maier, Matthias, Arndt, Daniel, Kanschat, Guido, Heister, Timo, Wells, David, Munch, Peter, Heltai, Luca, Turcksin, Bruno. “kinnewig/dealii: Tpetra-Wrappers-alpha.” Zenodo, 2024.0.
  • Patience, Paul Alexander, Audet, Charles, Blais, Bruno. “Cesogen: Cellular solid generator.” Available at SSRN 5288588, 2024.0.
  • Africa, Pasquale C, Arndt, Daniel, Bangerth, Wolfgang, Blais, Bruno, Fehling, Marc, Gassmöller, Rene, Heister, Timo, Heltai, Luca, Kinnewig, Sebastian, Kronbichler, Martin. “Journal of numerical mathematics: The deal. II library, Version 9.6.” de Gruyter, 2024.0.

2023

  • Daunais, Carole-Anne, Barbeau, Lucka, Blais, Bruno. “An extensive study of shear thinning flow around a spherical particle for power-law and Carreau fluids.” Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 311.0, 104951, 2023.0.
  • Joachim, Jeanne, Daunais, Carole-Anne, Bibeau, Valérie, Heltai, Luca, Blais, Bruno. “A parallel and adaptative Nitsche immersed boundary method to simulate viscous mixing.” Journal of Computational Physics, 488.0, 112189, 2023.0.
  • El Geitani, Toni, Golshan, Shahab, Blais, Bruno. “Toward High-Order CFD-DEM: Development and Validation.” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2023.0.
  • Bibeau, Valérie, Barbeau, Lucka, Boffito, Daria Camilla, Blais, Bruno. “Artificial neural network to predict the power number of agitated tanks fed by CFD simulations.” The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 101.0(10.0), 5992-6002, 2023.0.
  • El Geitani, Toni, Blais, Bruno. “Quadrature-centered averaging scheme for accurate and continuous void fraction calculation in computational fluid dynamics–discrete element method simulations.” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 62.0(12.0), 5394-5407, 2023.0.
  • El Geitani, Toni, Golshan, Shahab, Blais, Bruno. “A high-order stabilized solver for the volume averaged Navier-Stokes equations.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 1- 23, 2023.0.
  • Ferreira, Victor O, El Geitani, Toni, Junior, Daniel Silva, Blais, Bruno, Lopes, Gabriela C. “In-depth validation of unresolved CFD-DEM simulations of liquid fluidized beds.” Powder Technology, 426.0, 118652, 2023.0.
  • Ferreira, Victor Oliveira, Junior, Daniel Silva, de Melo, Karla Raphaela Braga, Blais, Bruno, Lopes, Gabriela Cantarelli. “Prediction of the bed expansion of a liquid fluidized bed bioreactor applied to wastewater treatment and biogas production.” Energy Conversion and Management, 290.0, 117224, 2023.0.
  • Mirakhori, Ghazaleh, Collard-Daigneault, Audrey, Alphonius, Amishga, Doucet, Jocelyn, Blais, Bruno, Chaouki, Jamal. “An improved position reconstruction method for radioactive particle tracking.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1055.0, 168504, 2023.0.
  • El Geitani, Toni, Blais, Bruno. “Solid-liquid rotary kilns: An experimental and CFD-DEM study.” Powder Technology, 430.0, 119008, 2023.0.
  • Arndt, Daniel, Bangerth, Wolfgang, Bergbauer, Maximilian, Feder, Marco, Fehling, Marc, Heinz, Johannes, Heister, Timo, Heltai, Luca, Kronbichler, Martin, Maier, Matthias. “The deal. II library, version 9.5.” Journal of Numerical Mathematics, 31.0(3.0), 231-246, 2023.0.

2022

  • Golshan, Shahab, Munch, Peter, Gassmoller, Rene, Kronbichler, Martin, Blais, Bruno. “Lethe-DEM: An open-source parallel discrete element solver with load balancing.” Computational Particle Mechanics, 2022.0.
  • Golshan, Shahab, Blais, Bruno. “Load-Balancing Strategies in Discrete Element Method Simulations.” Processes, 10.0(1.0), 79, 2022.0.
  • Rabiee, Roshanak, Monzavi, Mohammad, Shabanian, Jaber, Shams, Alireza, Golshan, Shahab, Jafari, Rouzbeh, Blais, Bruno, Chaouki, Jamal. “Two-Phase flow characterization of a rotating packed bed through CFD simulation in OpenFOAM.” Chemical Engineering Science, 253.0, 117589, 2022.0.
  • Barbeau, Lucka, Etienne, Stephane, Beguin, Cedric, Blais, Bruno. “Development of a high-order continuous Galerkin sharp-interface immersed boundary method and its application to incompressible flow problems.” Computers & Fluids, 239.0, 105415, 2022.0.
  • Pahija, Ergys, Golshan, Shahab, Blais, Bruno, Boffito, Daria Camilla. “Perspectives on the process intensification of CO2 capture and utilization.” Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process Intensification, 176.0, 108958, 2022.0.
  • Sadeghi, Hamed, Diosady, L, Blais, Bruno. “A computational fluid dynamics study on rimming flow in a rotating cylinder.” Physics of Fluids, 34.0(6.0), 2022.0.
  • Golshan, Shahab, Patience, Gregory S, Zarghami, Reza, Chaouki, Jamal, Blais, Bruno. “Experimental methods in chemical engineering: Optical fibre probes in multiphase systems.” The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2022.0.
  • Golshan, Shahab, Shams, Alireza, Rabiee, Roshanak, Jafari, Rouzbeh, Chaouki, Jamal, Blais, Bruno. “A correlation for average droplet diameter in rotating packed beds.” The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2022.0.

2021

  • Delacroix, Bastien, Rastoueix, Juliane, Fradette, Louis, Bertrand, François, Blais, Bruno. “CFD-DEM simulations of solid-liquid flow in stirred tanks using a non-inertial frame of reference.” Chemical Engineering Science, 230.0, 116137, 2021.0.
  • Berard, Ariane, Blais, Bruno, Patience, Gregory S. “Fluidized bed hydrodynamic modeling of CO2 in syngas: Distorted RTD curves due to adsorption on FCC.” AIChE Journal, 67.0(11.0), e17380, 2021.0.
  • Golshan, Shahab, Blais, Bruno. “Insights into granular mixing in vertical ribbon mixers.” The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2021.0.
  • Bérard, Ariane, Blais, Bruno, Patience, Gregory S. “Residence time distribution in fluidized beds: diffusion, dispersion, and adsorption.” Advanced Powder Technology, 32.0(5.0), 1677-1687, 2021.0.
  • Golshan, Shahab, Rabiee, Roshanak, Shams, Alireza, Hoballah, Rayane, Maheshwari, Priyank, Jafari, Rouzbeh, Chaouki, Jamal, Blais, Bruno. “On the volume of fluid simulation details and droplet size distribution inside rotating packed beds.” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 60.0(24.0), 8888-8900, 2021.0.
  • Delacroix, Bastien, Fradette, Louis, Bertrand, François, Blais, Bruno. “Which impeller should be chosen for efficient solid–liquid mixing in the laminar and transitional regime?.” AIChE Journal, 67.0(11.0), e17360, 2021.0.
  • Shademani, Maryam, Blais, Bruno, Shakibaeinia, Ahmad. “CFD-DEM modeling of dense sub-aerial and submerged granular collapses.” Water, 13.0(21.0), 2969, 2021.0.
  • Zarghami, Reza, Sotudeh-Gharebagh, Rahmat, Blais, Buno, Mostoufi, Navid, Chaouki, Jamal. “3 Process extrapolation by simulation.” Scale-Up Processes: Iterative Methods for the Chemical, Mineral and Biological Industries, 57-90, 2021.0.
  • Bashiri, Hamed, Rabiee, Roshanak, Shams, Alireza, Golshan, Shahab, Blais, Bruno, Chaouki, Jamal. “4 Transition from e-pilot to full commercial scale.” Scale-Up Processes: Iterative Methods for the Chemical, Mineral and Biological Industries, 91-124, 2021.0.
  • Golshan, Shahab, Rabiee, Roshanak, Shams, Alireza, Hoballah, Rayane, Maheshwari, Priyank, Jafari, Rouzbeh, Chaouki, Jamal, Blais, Bruno. “On the VOF Simulation Details and Droplet Size Distribution inside Rotating Packed Beds.” 2021.0.
  • Arndt, D, Bangerth, W, Blais, B, Fehling, M, Gassmöller, R, Heister, T, Heltai, L, Köcher, U, Kronbichler, M, Maier, M. “The deal. II library, version 9.3.” Journal of Numerical Mathematics, 29.0, 171-186, 2021.0.

2020

  • Bérard, Ariane, Patience, Gregory S, Blais, Bruno. “Experimental methods in chemical engineering: Unresolved CFD‐DEM.” The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 98.0(2.0), 424-440, 2020.0.
  • Bérard, Ariane, Blais, Bruno, Patience, Gregory S. “Experimental methods in chemical engineering: Residence time distribution—RTD.” The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 98.0(4.0), 848-867, 2020.0.
  • Golshan, Shahab, Sotudeh-Gharebagh, Rahmat, Zarghami, Reza, Mostoufi, Navid, Blais, Bruno, Kuipers, JAM. “Review and implementation of CFD-DEM applied to chemical process systems.” Chemical Engineering Science, 221.0, 115646, 2020.0.
  • Delacroix, Bastien, Bouarab, Anya, Fradette, Louis, Bertrand, François, Blais, Bruno. “Simulation of granular flow in a rotating frame of reference using the discrete element method.” Powder Technology, 369.0, 146-161, 2020.0.
  • Golshan, Shahab, Esgandari, Behrad, Zarghami, Reza, Blais, Bruno, Saleh, Khashayar. “Experimental and DEM studies of velocity profiles and residence time distribution of non-spherical particles in silos.” Powder Technology, 373.0, 510-521, 2020.0.
  • Blais, Bruno, Barbeau, Lucka, Bibeau, Valérie, Gauvin, Simon, El Geitani, Toni, Golshan, Shahab, Kamble, Rajeshwari, Mirakhori, Ghazaleh, Chaouki, Jamal. “Lethe: An open-source parallel high-order adaptative CFD solver for incompressible flows.” SoftwareX, 12.0, 100579, 2020.0.
  • Arndt, Daniel, Bangerth, Wolfgang, Blais, Bruno, Clevenger, Thomas C, Fehling, Marc, Grayver, Alexander V, Heister, Timo, Heltai, Luca, Kronbichler, Martin, Maier, Matthias. “The deal. II library, version 9.2.” Journal of Numerical Mathematics, 28.0(3.0), 131-146, 2020.0.
  • Blais, Bruno, Delacroix, Bastien, Fradette, Louis, Bertrand, François. “A Comparison of the Performance of Mixing Systems for Viscous Solid-Liquid Mixing Using CFD-DEM.” 2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, 2020.0.
  • Heltai, L, Blais, B, Gassmöller, R. “The deal. II tutorial step-70: massively parallel non-matching grid simulations of fluid structure interaction problems.” 2020.0.

2019

  • Poirier, Dominique, Legoux, Jean-Gabriel, Vo, Phuong, Blais, Bruno, Giallonardo, Jason D, Keech, Peter G. “Powder development and qualification for high-performance cold spray copper coatings on steel substrates.” Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 28.0(3.0), 444-459, 2019.0.
  • Ilinca, Florin, Yu, Kintak Raymond, Blais, Bruno. “The effect of viscosity on free surface flow inside an angularly oscillating rectangular tank.” Computers & Fluids, 183.0, 160-176, 2019.0.
  • Patience, Gregory S, Patience, Christian A, Blais, Bruno, Bertrand, Francois. “Corrigendum to “Citation analysis of scientific categories”[Heliyon 3 (5)(May 2017) e00300].” Heliyon, 5.0(3.0), 2019.0.
  • Blais, Bruno, Vidal, David, Bertrand, Francois, Patience, Gregory S, Chaouki, Jamal. “Experimental methods in chemical engineering: discrete element method—DEM.” The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 97.0(7.0), 1964-1973, 2019.0.
  • Delacroix, Bastien, Blais, Bruno, Fradette, Louis, Bertrand, François. “Development of a CFD-DEM Model in Non-Inertial Frame for Solid-Liquid Mixing Applications.” 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting, 2019.0.
  • Patience, Gregory S, Patience, Christian A, Blais, Bruno, Bertrand, Francois. “Citation analysis of scientific categories (vol 3, e00300, 2017).” HELIYON, 5.0(3.0), 2019.0.
  • Patience, Gregory Scott, Patience, Christian A, Blais, Bruno, Bertrand, François. “Erratum: Citation analysis of scientific categories.” Heliyon, 5.0(3.0), 2019.0.

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