Bruno Blais - Associate Professor

Bruno Blais

Associate Professor

Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada

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Bruno Blais is an associate professor and visiting professor specializing in computational fluid dynamics and the simulation of complex multiphase, particle-laden flows, with 11 years of research and academic experience. He directs the CHAOS Laboratory at Polytechnique Montréal and collaborates internationally (currently at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg) on CFD-DEM modeling of solid-liquid and solid-gas systems. A Vanier Scholar with top academic records and a background spanning industry and national research labs, he combines rigorous numerical methods with practical applications in chemical engineering. Bruno is also an active open-source contributor and principal developer on the widely used deal.II finite element library, where he has improved grid generation, documentation, and particle data output—work that reflects his blend of code-level craftsmanship and applied modeling.

11 years of coding experience

4 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering - Computational Fluid Dynamics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering - Computational Fluid Dynamics at Polytechnique Montréal

Engineer's degree, Fluid Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Engineer's degree, Fluid Mechanics and Applied Mathematics at ENSTA

Master of Science (MS), Fundamental and Applied Fluid Mechanics, Master of Science (MS), Fundamental and Applied Fluid Mechanics at Pierre and Marie Curie University

English, French, Italian

Github Skills (5)

finite-element-analysis10

c-language10

cprogramming-language10

documentation9

testing8

Programming languages (7)

C++ShellMakefileTeXHTMLJupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

dealii/dealii

Aug 2019 - Jan 2023

The development repository for the deal.II finite element library

Role in this project:

Backend Developer

Contributions:245 reviews, 138 commits, 68 PRs in 3 years 5 months

Contributions summary:Bruno primarily contributed to the development of the `deal.II` finite element library, specifically focusing on the `grid_generator` module. Their work included adding images to the documentation, fixing indentation issues, correcting typos in the code, and fixing a bug that led to a crash when the triangulation was of a specific dimension. Furthermore, the user improved the `Particle::DataOut` class, refactoring code and including a test.

dealmultiphysicsc-plus-pluscomputational-sciencefinite-elements

chaos-polymtl/lethe-utils

Apr 2019 - Mar 2023

Contributions:2 reviews, 95 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 11 months

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