Jean-Paul Bonnet obtained his PhD from the University of Poitiers in 1975 and a State PhD in 1982. He was Director of the Laboratory of Aerodynamic Studies from 1995 to 2003, Vice-President of the Scientific Council of the University of Poitiers from 1998 to 2007, Director of the PPRIMME research federation in 2005 and Director of the Pprime Institute in 2010. Jean-Paul Bonnet is a laureate of the Berthault Prize of the Academy of Sciences and "Emeritus member - associate fellow 2008" 3AF. He has published more than 475 papers, communications, reports, has been editor or co-editor of six books, co-author of the book "Turbulence, Compressibility and High Speed Flow", author or co-author of 9 patents. He has supervised or co-supervised 30 theses.
Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics: decades of turbulent EFD/CFD complementarity
Abstract: An overview of the parallel evolution of computations and experiments in fluid dynamics in the context of turbulent flows is given, viewed from an experimental side. It is evident that experiments can no longer be seen as only validations for computations and that forecasting for “numerical wind tunnels” is not yet valid. The growing evidence of organized motions in turbulent flows pushes in parallel both experiments and numerical approaches to develop new measurement technologies and numerical methods. Many tools and concepts are shared both by experiments and computations. These approaches appear to be quite complementary and both communities will gain from the mutual fertilization.
