Institut Pprime (sometimes written ''Institut P) is a
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
laboratory created in 2010 and based in
Poitiers
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France
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Presentation
The institute depends from the
University of Poitiers
The University of Poitiers (UP; , ) is a public university located in Poitiers, France. It is a member of the Coimbra Group. It is multidisciplinary and contributes to making Poitiers the city with the highest student/inhabitant ratio in France ...
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ENSI Poitiers and
Ensma and has the UPR number 3346. It is the second-largest laboratory in engineering science in France with 572 people working for it in 2014.
Présentation
, Pprime , April the 2nd 2014 It has locations on both the campus of Poitiers and Futuroscope. It is currently led by Yves Gervais since 2014 after Jean-Paul Bonnet.
The laboratory is sub-divided into three departments:
* Physics and Mechanics of Materials
* Fluids, Thermal and Combustion Sciences
* Mechanics, Structures and Complex Systems
It is the merger of six previous laboratories which were:
LCD
, Laboratoire de combustion et de détonique (Laboratory of Combustion and Detonics) UPR 9028
LEA
, Laboratoire d’études aérodynamiques (Laboratory of Aerodynamic Studies) UMR 6609
LET
Laboratoire d’études thermiques (Laboratory of Thermal Studies) UMR 6608
PhyMat
Laboratoire de physique des matériaux (Laboratory of Materials Physics) UMR 6630
LMPM
Laboratoire de mécanique et physique des matériaux (Laboratory of Mechanics and Physics of Materials) UMR 6617
LMS
Laboratoire de mécanique des solides (Laboratory of Solid Mechanics) UMR 6610
See also
* IC2MP, a laboratory specializing in chemistry in Poitiers
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Physics research institutes
University of Poitiers
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Research institutes established in 2010
2010 establishments in France