Maxime Renard

Maxime Renard

Fluid Mechanic’s Philosophy: If It Moves, Model It!


I am a PhD student since October 2024 in Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK) where I am part of the PDE team The title of my research is Numerical Methods for Viscoelastic models and application to biology (these.fr). My work is placed under the direction of Pierre Saramito, Hélène Delanoë-Ayari (co-director), and Ibrahim Cheddadi (supervisor). It will aim at finding an accurate model to study the rheology of epithelial tissues, and at finding efficient and robust numerical methods to implement it. This is indeed a very multi-disciplinary project, going through fundamental physics and thermodynamics, biomechanics, optimization, finite elements methods, non-newtonian fluid mechanics models, and computational fluid dynamics.


I came to Grenoble, France, to involve in a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Informatics, obtained in DLST in Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA). After passing, I attented a Master's Degree of Science in industrial and applied mathematics (MSIAM) in the same university, taught in collaboration with UGA and ENSIMAG engineering school. It gave me the opportunity to follow an intership in a french nuclear research compagny called Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA). There, I worked on entropy-conservative staggered finite differences schemes for shocks capture in Euler equations. It modeled the startup of a vapor explosion within a nuclear reactor, which may occur if a severe accident arises. I also obtained an internship in my current lab, to work on similar topic as the PhD I involved in. Now part of the alumni, I left a word for Master's students on the MSIAM dedicated page.