Vincent Thomas

Engine Business Unit Manager chez Imagin

Our company has developed the AMESim simulation platform, offering tools and services for the design and analysis of systems as a whole. We work for example with the automotive industry in a variety of fields, providing solutions for engines, transmission, thermal management systems and injection systems. In 2006, we chose Xavier Duprez to work on the development of an estimator. This involves using a simple physical model to evaluate a physical value that we cannot measure directly because there is no related sensor. In this case, his work involved estimating the mass of residual gas in the cylinders, which is essential information for controlling combustion.

For this assignment, we needed a person with an excellent grounding in all the engineering sciences, because we deal both with fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, and of course someone meticulous when it comes to scientific methods. Engines are a very particular and specialized field, which required a considerable prior investment in terms of bibliographic research. That is what’s hard about working with us: we work on multi-domain systems, but we need results fast.