R&D Internship: Heat Transfer in Direct Chill Aluminium Casting

Constellium SE; France; Hybride; EUR 8 900 - 13 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Constellium invites an Engineering student to join the R&D Casting Team in Grenoble for an internship focused on heat transfer and cooling optimization during aluminium DC casting. The project examines how dissolved gases, particularly CO2, affect boiling and heat transfer under controlled jet cooling conditions.

You will work on an instrumented test rig, develop procedures, and measure gas concentration to build correlations for improved modelling and process control.

Qualifications

• Engineering student (final year) or Masters (M2) of Physics or Material Science.
• Motivated, creative, rigorous, curious, good communication skills and autonomous.
• Good communication skills in English and French are essential

Responsabilités

• Experimentally investigate dissolved gas effects on heat transfer in DC casting.
• Develop and conduct experiments using the quench pilot and CO2 probe.
• Measure dissolved CO2 concentration and characterize its evolution under various conditions.
• Determine heat transfer coefficients from the thermal response of the instrumented plate.

Connaissances

English

French

Experimentation

Thermal analysis

Formation

Bac+5 / MSc in Mechanical Engineering - Physics or Materials Science

Outils

CO2 probe

Quench pilot facility

Description du poste

Constellium invites an Engineering student to join the R&D Casting Team in Grenoble for an internship focused on heat transfer and cooling optimization during aluminium DC casting. The project examines how dissolved gases, particularly CO2, affect boiling and heat transfer under controlled jet cooling conditions.

You will work on an instrumented test rig, develop procedures, and measure gas concentration to build correlations for improved modelling and process control.