Principia is an independent French engineering consultancy founded in 1981, providing advanced scientific engineering, numerical simulation, and design solutions for the energy, offshore, naval defense, and nuclear sectors. The company supports asset owners, operators, and contractors from initial concept engineering to operational asset maintenance.
Headquartered in La Ciotat, France, Principia operates additional technical facilities and offices across France (Nantes/Bouguenais, Lorient) and internationally (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). The firm is widely recognized for its deep scientific expertise in structural analysis, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), hydrodynamics, and multi-physics coupling, as well as developing proprietary industrial simulation codes such as the DeepLines suite.