PhD Defence Thomas HURET
Wind tunnel simulations of turbulent shear flows representative of atmospheric boundary layer by the use of upstream passive devices
HDR Francesco Romano
Stability, mixing and asymptotic modeling in flows with well-separated characteristic length scales
Webinar Georg Dietz
Some contributions to the modelling of mucus films in the pulmonary airways
Georg Dietz received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from RWTH-Aachen University, Germany After a post-doc at Université Pierre et Marie Curie he has been hired as CNRS research associate at Laboratoire FAST, Orsay. In 2022, he received an HDR from Université Paris Saclay. His research interests are thin film flows (falling liquid films, mucus films in the pulmonary airways, dynamic wetting); interfacial instabilities; low-dimensional modelling using long-wave approximation; DNS using VOF solvers
Webinar Marc Medale
When does gravity actually influence the macroscopic contact angle in partial wetting problems?
Marc Medale has his expertise in numerical modeling of coupled heat and fluid flows, with particular emphasis on natural and mixed convection fluid flows with or without phase change along with partial wetting problems. The developed models address both Newtonian and visco-plastic rheologies and they aim at computing branches of steady state solutions, detect bifurcation points if any, by means of continuation algorithms based on the Asymptotic Numerical Method and finally perform linear stability analyses when relevant.
Webinar Soledad Le Clainche
Modal decomposition and machine learning to develop robust models
Dr. Soledad Le Clainche, is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the School of Aeronautics of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). In December 2013 she finished her PhD at the same University, in the Dept. of Fluid Dynamics and Aerospace Propulsion. Her main lines of research focus on computational fluid dynamics, data analysis, machine learning and the development and application of predictive reduced order models based on physical principles. In this line, she is PI of several national and EU-funded projects whose main objective is to develop new strategies to reduce air pollution in cities, to develop more efficient combustion systems and aerodynamic designs, and to advance in the field of personalized medicine.
Webinar Paola Cinella
High-fidelity simulations and machine learning for improved turbomachinery design
Paola Cinella is a full professor of fluid mechanics at Jean Le Rond D’Alembert Institute. Her research topic is high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics, with focus on high-order methods, uncertainty quantification, and machine learning applied to the analysis and design of compressible flows. She is editor in chief of Computers&Fluids, and serves as an associate editor of the International Journal for Heat and Fluid Flow and editorial board member of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion. She is the coordinator of the ERCOFTAC Scientific Interest Groupe 54 “Machine Learning for Fluid Dynamics”.
Webinar Johan Meyer
Simulation and modelling of wind-farm blockage and wakes
Johan Meyer is a full professor at the department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is an internationally recognized expert in wind-farm aerodynamics and wind-farm atmosphere interactions. He leads a team of 10 researchers (PhDs and postdocs), specializing in numerical simulation, high performance computing, optimization and optimal control of turbulent flows. Johan Meyer acquired an ERC grant on windfarm control in 2012, and has been involved in various EU projects on wind energy since. He has been vice-president (2017-2019) and president (2019-2021) of the European Academy of Wind Energy. He also has been an associate editor of Computers and Fluids, and currently of Wind Energy Science.
Webinaire Hassan M. Nagib
Wall-Bounded Turbulence: Recent Lessons from Experiments-Asymptotics-Computation
Hassan M. Nagib is the John T. Rettaliata Endowed Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and was the founding director of the institute’s Fluid Dynamics Research Center. His field of specialty is in fluid mechanics, turbulent flow, and flow management and control. At Illinois Tech, he served as MMAE department Chair, dean of Armour College, academic vice president, and chief scientist for IIT Research Institute (IITRI). Nagib is the recipient of several prestigious honors including being a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association of Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. From his base institute for more than half a century, he has been a visiting faculty on several occasions at Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, and a Tewkesbury Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Melbourne.
Webinar Rui Ni
The Wrath of the Small: Fragmentation of Bubbles in Turbulence by Small Eddies
Rui Ni is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and was appointed as the DOE ORISE professor in 2019. Prior to joining JHU, he was the endowed Kenneth K. Kuo Early Career Professor at Penn State University. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Physics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011, and worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Yale and Wesleyan University. He received an NSF CAREER award in fluid dynamics, ACS-PRF New Investigator Award, and NASA Early Stage Investigation award. His primary research focus is the development of advanced experimental methods for understanding multiphase flows in many applications, such as energy systems, emulsion, particle ingestion in gas turbines, landings on extraterrestrial bodies, and dust mitigation for future space exploration.
Webinar Sébastien Galtier
Heat and mass transport in porous media: Insights from experiments, simulations, and modelling.
Sébastien Galtier obtained a PhD at Observatoire de Nice in 1998 under the supervision of Prof. Annick Pouquet. His PhD was on 'MHD turbulence and intermittency'. He joined the Mathematics Institute of University of Warwick in 1999 as a post-doc before to obtain a permanent position at University Paris-Sud in 2001. He is now Professor in Astrophysics at Université Paris Saclay in the "Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas". He was awarded as Junior and Senior member of Institut universitaire de France (IUF). His research interest is on turbulence in astrophysics and cosmology. He uses both high level mathematical tools and massive numerical simulations to study the properties of turbulence and discover new fundamental laws. The domains of application are diverse: solar wind plasma, supersonic interstellar medium, solar coronal heating, dynamo in stars and planets, and primordial gravitational waves. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and general relativity are the main equations used to investigate these questions.