Thermal No. 4 January 31, 2022

FranceMember of ICHMT, AIHTC, EUROTHERM(1) Overview

Thermal No. 4 January 31, 2022
A YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oTIDvlAA8U&t=53s

Edition of four newscasts per year containing all the informations about the association: minutes ofmeetings, conclusion of the commissions, calls for papers from national and international upcoming
conferences and seminars(Central European Time Zone, CET: UTC+1 (winter) and UTC+2 (summer), Population: 67.4 million)
4. Major meetings

1. Organizations
Most scientists and and engineers specialized in thermal sciences and heat transfer inFrance belong to Société Française de Thermique (SFT).
SFT was founded in 1961 as a non-profit organization.
The organization published “La Revue Générale de Thermique” until 1995, before its
publication by Elsevier as the “International Journal of Thermal Sciences”.

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Its purpose is :Development and enhancing the influence of thermal sciences,
Study of miscellaneous problems, of public interest linked to thermal sciences in a direct or indirect way,such as the study of the use of diverse energy sources for example
Link to associations and French groups of thermal scientists, as well as to other scientific fields
Animation and promotion within the community of thermal sciences in industry, teaching and research
Exchanges and diffusion of knowledge between their creators and their users
The representation of thermal sciences and of thermal scientists at the national, European and international
levelsPresident of SFT (2021-2023): Christophe Le Niliot, Aix-Marseille University (christophe.leniliot@univamu.fr )2. Members
 450 individual members in the year book 30 collective members: University /CNRS research labs, and companies
3. Structure and communication
SFT is organized around an administration board, a scientific committee and thematic groups. The mainorganization is described below
 An elected board, with a two year mandate for the President and for the head of the scientific committeewith four meetings per year.
 A scientific council in charge of the congress 3 organic commissions for:o Scientific foresighto Programs to organize the scientific seminars
o Communication and education to promote the association and the scientific activities 19 thematic groups in charge of the animation of a scientific activity such as: radiation, heat exchangers,transfers in porous media … The list of the topics is presented on the website https://www.sft.asso.fr/)
A website with upcoming meetings and open accessto proceedings of the yearly conference, of seminars
and advanced schools, as well as a directory ofmembers: https://www.sft.asso.fr/

A LinkedIn Page:

One 3.5 day yearly conference (lateMay, early June) organized by about 15
rotating labs in different cities of France,
Prize and awards: during the yearlyconference, the scientific committee
awards the best paper-oral presentation
to a young scientist. This award called“the Biot-Fourier award” was created inhonor of two French scientists: Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) andJoseph Fourier (1768-1830), both known for their major contribution inthermal sciences.
about ten scientific SFT seminars of 1 or 2 days per year within thescope of the thematic groups or with other organizations: companies or academic associations such as
the SFGP (Chemical Engineering) or AFM (Mechanics)
participation to the organization of advanced schools, with CNRS, Eurotherm, ICHMT. In the past years
SFT sponsored international seminars in the domain of: nano heat transfer, inverse techniques andthermal measurements, radiation …

5. Education
 The French University system is based on the Bologna Process introduced to harmonize higher educationin European Union. It is based on three levels:o The first (lowest) level is a bachelor’s degree, typically lasting three to four years.
o The second level is a master’s degree, typically lasting one to two years.
o The final level is a doctorate (PhD) which usually lasts three years
 The French University system is supplemented by engineering schools specializing in the major fields ofengineering including thermal sciences. These studies lead to an engineer's degree equivalent to a Master'sdegree.
6. Major Public/Private Research Institutes
 Most major labs in thermal sciences and heat transfer depend both on their local
University and on the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) The National Research Agency (ANR) is a public administrative establishment,
placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research andInnovation. The Agency implements the funding of research projects, for public
operators in cooperation with each other or with companies.
 The Investments for the Future Program (PIA), steered by the General Secretariat for
Investment (SGPI), was set up by the State to finance innovative and promising
investments in the territory, in order to enable France to increase its potential for growthand jobs.

By D. Lemonnier (ICHMT/Eurotherm), D. Maillet (AIHTC) and C. Le Niliot (SFT/Eurotherm)

https://www.linkedin.com/company/sftasso/?viewAsMember=true2324

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France, Member of ICHMT, AIHTC, EUROTHERM (2)200th Anniversary of the publication of“Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire” by Sadi Carnot
200th Anniversary of the publication of“Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire” by Sadi Carnot
Michel Feidt
Emeritus Professor, Université de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy
Michel.Feidt@univ-lorraine.fr

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Généalogie détaillée de la famille Carnot
from https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famille_Carnot

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