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• PhD defense

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2024

    • Monday, January 29, 2024, HDR defense of Nathanaël Machicoane - 14h00, K118

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2023

    • PhD theses for the year 2023

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2022

    • PhD theses for the year 2022

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2021

    • Thursday, March 25, 2021, Matthieu GUILBOT’s thesis defense - 2:00 PM, Room G128, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Tuesday, June 22, 2021, Cyril BOZONNET’s thesis defense - 2:00 PM, Room K118, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Tuesday, June 29, 2021, defense of Yann MEZUI M-OBIANG’s thesis - 10:00 am, Room K118, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Thursday, July 15, 2021, Christophe PONCET’s thesis defense - 9:30 a.m., Amphitheatre OUEST, UFR de Chimie-Biologie
    • Friday, October 15, 2021, thesis defense of Claudine CHARRONDIÈRE - 14h00, Amphithéâtre K118, LEGI, site Bergès
    • Tuesday, November 30, 2021, thesis defense of Antoine MATHIEU - 15h00, Amphithéâtre K118, LEGI, site Bergès
    • December 3, 2021, thesis defense of Enzo LE BOUEDEC - 14h00, Amphithéâtre K118, LEGI, site Bergès
    • PhD theses for the year 2021

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2020

    • Wednesday 26th February 2020, thesis defence of Miguel CALPE LINARES - 14h00, Amphitheater K118, LEGI, Bergès site
    • PhD theses for the year 2020

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2019

    • Tuesday 5th March 2019, thesis defense of Prasanta SARKAR - 10h00, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Wednesday 13th March 2019, thesis defense of Julian-Andres QUIMBAYO-DUARTE - 9h30, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Friday 13th September 2019, thesis defense of Flavia TURI - 14h00, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Tuesday 19th September 2019, thesis defense of Ivan REDOR - 10h00, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Friday 29th November 2019, thesis defense of Anne BOUVET - 09h00, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Tuesday 3rd December 2019, thesis defense of François DOUSSOT - 2pm, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Friday 6th December 2019, thesis defense of Vincent CLARY - 10h15, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Friday 13th December 2019, thesis defense of Grégory GUYOT - 14h30, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • wednesday 18th December 2019, thesis defense of Guillaume SAHUT - 09h00, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • PhD theses for the year 2019

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2018

    • Tuesday 17th July 2018, thesis defense of Tim NAGEL - 14h00, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Monday, 15th October 2018, thesis defense of Roumaïssa HASSAÏNI - 13h30, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Thursday, 18th October 2018, thesis defense of Hoang Lam PHAM - 14h00, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Friday, 26th October 2018, thesis defense of Arkadii SOCHINSKII - 14h00, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • Friday, 9th November 2018, thesis defense of Shrey JOSHI - 10h00, K118 Amphitheater, LEGI, Bergès site
    • PhD theses for the year 2018

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2017

    • January 13, 2017, thesis defense of Sylvia WILHELM - 9h30, Amphithéâtre K118, LEGI, site Bergès
    • March 29, 2017, thesis defense of Nathanaël GUILLAUD - 14h00, Amphithéâtre K118, LEGI, site Bergès
    • October 10, 2017, thesis defense of Nickolas Stelzenmuller - 10h00, Amphithéâtre K118, LEGI, site Bergès
    • October 27, 2017, thesis defense of Lucas Seguinot - 10h30, Amphithéâtre K118, LEGI, site Bergès
    • November 29, 2017, thesis defense of Yves Paquette - 14h30, Amphithéâtre K118, LEGI, site Bergès
    • PhD theses for the year 2017

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2016

    • PhD theses for the year 2016

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2015

    • PhD theses for the year 2015

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2014

    • PhD theses for the year 2014

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2013

    • PhD theses for the year 2013

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2012

    • PhD theses for the year 2012

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2011

    • PhD theses for the year 2011

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2010

    • PhD theses for the year 2010

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2009

    • PhD theses for the year 2009

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2008

    • PhD theses for the year 2008

  • Ph.D. Thesis 2007

    • PhD theses for the year 2007

• Seminar

  • Seminar 2026

  • Seminar 2025

  • Seminar 2024

  • Seminar 2023

  • Seminar 2022

    • Mardi 11 Janvier 11h00 - VIRTUAL
    • Mardi 15 Fevrier 11h00 - LEGI Salle K118
    • Mardi 24 Mai 11h00 - LEGI Salle K118

  • Seminar 2021

  • Seminar 2020

    • Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 11:00 am - LEGI K118

  • Seminar 2019

    • Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 11:00 am - LEGI K118

  • Seminar 2018

  • Seminar 2017

  • Seminar 2016

  • Seminar 2015

  • Seminar 2014

  • Seminar 2013

  • Seminar 2012

  • Seminar 2011

  • Seminar 2010

  • Seminar 2009

  • Seminar 2008

  • Seminar 2007

  • Seminar 2006

• Events

  • Events 2026

    • ISUD 2026, 3-7 May

  • Events 2025

    • In situ campaign to measure katabatic winds
    • 2025-HERCULES : mixing experimental modelling and numerical experiments
    • LEGI key-labs motion
    • In situ campaign to measure anabatic winds
    • Hugo Jolas receives the Innovation Award at the Business Hydro 2025 trade show

  • Events 2024

    • Julien Chauchat at the EFDC1 conference in Aachen
    • Two LEGI teams at the Grenoble Ekiden

  • Events 2023

    • Award for the most beautiful image at the MARID VII conference
    • 2023-HERCULES : A physical model of the Gibraltar Strait
    • Fluid dynamics meets synchrotron X-ray high-speed imaging - Workshop at ESRF 21-22 March 2024
    • Habilitation to Direct Research by Sébastien FERROUILLAT

  • Events 2022

    • A two-dimensional soliton

  • Events 2021

  • Events 2020

    • Season’s Greetings 2020
    • EGU Blogs: NPG Paper of the Month
    • Nature - Ice front blocking of ocean heat transport to an Antarctic ice shelf
    • Associate Professor / Section 62 : Innovative approaches for heat transfer in fluid medium

  • Events 2019

    • Conference in honor of Jean-Pierre Franc
    • Guillaume Balarac receives the ITM Espoir Prize - Academy of Sciences (Nov. 2019)

  • Events 2018

    • Season’s Greetings 2018
    • Bilan de la première journée Grenobloise des utilisateurs d’OpenFOAM

  • Events 2017

    • Fluid-structure interaction on flexible hydrodynamic foils
    • Coriolis Platform: Vorticity Annihilition at high Reynolds Numbers
    • Coriolis Platform: Shelf sLOpe impact on Coastal Eddy Turbulence : EUHIT

  • Events 2016

    • Operation 31: Thermodynamic control of cryogenic propellant tank
    • Operation 31: Bubble implosion
    • Operation 31 : The hydrodynamic tunnel of LEGI is currently under renovation
    • Opération 31 : Transport turbulent de champs et de particules
    • Opération 31 : Écoulements à bulles pilotés par la gravité
    • Coriolis Platform: Wind stress resonance and deep ocean energy transfer : laboratory experiments

  • Events 2015

    • Operation 31: Waves Vortex
    • Operation 31: Modeling the katabatic wind on Alpine slopes
    • Operation 31: farm turbines
    • Operation 31: Numerical simulation of turbulent mixing
    • Operation 31 : Hydrodynamic cavitation with ’labs on chip’
    • Operation 31 : Structure de la turbulence

  • Events 2014

    • Season’s Greetings 2014
    • Memorial Gabriel Chabert d’Hières and Prospective for the new Coriolis platform

  • Events 2013

  • Events 2012

    • Season’s Greetings 2012
    • Workshop: Wave turbulence - Les Houches, March 25-30th, 2012

  • Events 2011

    • New buildings for LEGI
    • Polarstern

  • Events 2010

    • Season’s Greetings 2010
    • LEGI General Assembly - January 2010
    • The Coriolis II project
    • Scientific School: "Topographic Internal Waves"
    • Projet Equipex Hydralp
    • Access to the Coriolis Platform within Hydralab IV: call for proposals issued
    • International Master ’Environmental Fluid Mechanics’
    • Season’s Greetings 2011

  • Events 2009

  • Events 2008

    • Changing the team responsible for MIP
    • Mid-term Visit

  • Events 2007

    • CFM2007: 18th French Congress of Mechanics
    • Mariana, Morgane, Jane and Mark
    • Happy retirement Jean-Paul
    • LEGI sourcecode Forge

Teams

• EDT team: Two-Phase flows and turbulences

  • EDT team: Two-Phase flows and turbulences

  • Team members

    • Team members

  • Portfolio

    • Solar farms in turbulent environmental conditions
    • Physical modling of vocal cords
    • Simons collaboration on wave turbulence
    • Sea water Magnetohydrodynamics
    • Large-scale instruments and facilities

  • Research activities

    • Fluid and Life: Physical modeling of the voice, fluid-structure interaction

      • Characterization of the elasticity of complex vocal cord casts
      • Instability of glottal flow
      • Effect of the presence of liquids
      • Acoustic and aeroacoustic effects of vocal tract deformation
      • Applications to voice disorders

    • Environment and climate

      • Wave turbulence
      • Air entrainment by plunging jets
      • Turbulence and particles
      • Soliton gas
      • Stratified turbulence
      • Soil remediation

    • Renewable Energy

      • Methane production
      • Solar farms and wind farms

    • Transportation

      • Cavitation flow and erosion
      • Fluidic oscillator
      • Impact of rain on the aerodynamics of automobiles
      • MHD propulsion in seawater

    • Improving Industrial Processes

      • Effect of surfactants on atomization
      • Filtration
      • Nanoparticle cleaning by drop impact
      • Pipe flow with bubbles
      • Wall turbulence and control
      • Bubble column in heterogeneous regime
      • High-speed atomization and sprays

    • Methods

    • Particles, inclusions and dispersed flows

  • Bibliography

    • Publications of the team

    • Patents

      • Patents

    • Doctorate

      • Doctorate

  • Facilities

• Energetics team

  • Energetics team

  • Team menbers

    • Team members

  • Highlights

    • Development of EFL – WINDQUEST technology for use on hydro turbines and wind turbines
    • Does hydrodynamic cavitation generate hydroxyl radicals?

  • Axis / Cavitation

    • Cavitation

  • Axis / Turbomachinery - Renewable energies

    • Turbomachinery / Renewable energies

  • Axis / Intensification of heat transfer

    • Intensification of heat transfer

  • Publications

    • Publications

    • Ranking by year

      • Publications 2013
      • Publications 2014
      • Publications 2015
      • Publications 2016
      • Publications 2017
      • Publications 2018
      • Publications 2019
      • Publications 2020

  • Patents

    • Patents

  • Collaborations

    • Collaborations

• MOST team: Turbulence Modelling and Simulation

  • Highlights

  • Research activities

    • Axis 1 - Advanced numerical methods for quantum turbulence simulations
    • Axis 1 - Anisotropic mesh adaptation for Large Eddy Simulations and multiphase flow
    • Axis 1 - Development of a High Order Framework for finite volume methods on unstructured grids
    • Axis 1 - Linearized implicit time advancement for LES
    • Axis 1 - RANS-LES multi-fidelity for more efficient parametric studies
    • Axis 1 - Simulation of nucleate boiling in unstructured meshes
    • Axis 2 - Bifurcations and rare events in turbulent flows
    • Axis 2 - Numerical study of quantum turbulence at absolute zero
    • Axis 3 - Study of a partially opened Main Inlet Valve of a pump-turbine
    • Axis 3 - Hydrodynamic instabilities in hydroelectric turbines
    • Axis 3 - Hydrodynamic instabilities in Kaplan turbines

    • Past research activities

      • 2014 - Axe 2 - Numerical simulation of liquid jets sheared by a high-speed stream: Flapping dynamics and interaction with vortical structures
      • 2015 - Axe 1 - Evaluation et development of subgrid scale models for large eddy simulation of mixing based on optimal estimator and machin learning
      • 2015 - Axe 2 - Direct numerical simulations of maximally helical turbulence and LES models of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
      • 2015 - Axe 3 - Reliability and uncertainty assessment for the numerical simulation of turbulence : application to hydraulic machines
      • 2017 - Axe 3 - Analysis of head losses in a bulb turbine draft tube by means of unsteady numerical simulations
      • 2017 - Axe 3 - Simulation and shape optimization of vertical axis hydrokinetic turbines
      • 2018 - Axe 1 - Numerical modeling of long flexible fibers in inertial flows
      • 2018 - Axis 1 - Cavitation erosion modelling using SPH
      • 2019 - Axe 1 - Simulation of cavitation erosion by a coupled CFD-FEM approach
      • 2019 - Axe 3 - Axis 3 - Numerical simulation of the part load condition in Francis turbines: analysis of the topology and the dynamic of inter-blade vortices
      • 2019 - Axis 1 - Numerical prediction of cavitation : application to hydraulic machines
      • 2019 - Axis 1 - Numerical simulation of boiling
      • 2019 - Axis 3 - Vertical axis turbine performance evaluation and optimization with several numerical approaches
      • 2021 - Axis 2 - Görtler instability and induced mixing in gravity currents over curved boundaries
      • 2021 - Axis 2 - Numerical validation of theoretical predictions for homogeneous isotropic turbulence
      • 2021 - Axis 3 - Study of head losses in a divergent pipe flow by unsteady numerical simulation
      • 2022 - Axe 1 - Axis 1 - Numerical simulation of nucleate boilng : analysis of the influence of liquid-vapor- solid contact
      • 2022 - Axis 1 - Implementation of near wall modeling methods in YALES2
      • 2022 - Axis 1 - Towards data-driven LES subgrid-scale flow modelling with convolutional neural networks
      • 2022 - Axis 2 - Numerical simulation of the turbulence and of the fluid structure interaction around wind or marine turbine blades

  • Team members

  • Computational resources

    • The computational resources deployed by the MoST team

• MEIGE team

  • Team members

    • Former team members
    • Visitors

  • Research Topics

    • Boundary Layer Processes and Geophysical Turbulence

      • Boundary layer - sediment transport interactions

    • Gravity Waves : internal waves & waves in the nearshore

    • Environmental Engineering

    • Environmental Engineering

  • Scientific communications

    • Group seminars

      • On turbulence-induced settling modification and the consequences on suspension models.

    • Conference presentations

  • Experimental facilities

    • Tilting flume

• Former teams

  • Old MEOM team: Ocean Modeling Flow Medium and Large Scale

    • Learn More

  • Old MIP team: Microfluidics, Interfaces, Particles

    • Team members

    • Research themes

      • Research themes

      • Fluid interfaces and nanofluidics

      • Droplet-based microfluidics

      • Continuous-flow microfluidics

        • Microsystems for the extraction of blood plasma
        • Active mixing in microsystems

    • Instruments

  • Old ERES team: Environment, Rotation and Stratification

    • Presentation

  • Old HOULE team: Gravity Waves and Hydrodynamics Sedimentary

    • Presentation

Large Equipments

• General Presentation

• The hydrodynamic tunnel

  • The hydrodynamic tunnel

• The PREVERO cavitation erosion tunnel

  • The PREVERO cavitation erosion tunnel

• Low turbulence wind tunnel

  • Low turbulence wind tunnel

• The Coriolis rotating platform

  • Introducing the Coriolis platform

  • Coriolis’ strength and its platforms

    • History - The dam project in the bay of Mont Saint Michel
    • The Coriolis platform is 50 years old (in French)
    • The project Coriolis II
    • Why using a rotating platform nowadays?
    • History of the Coriolis force

  • 3D virtual tour

    • 3D virtual tour

  • Research projects

    • 2016-MILESTONE: Mixing and length scales in Stratified Turbulence
    • 2016-CREST: Gravity currents in sub-marine canyons
    • 2016-RESEK : Wind stress resonance and deep ocean energy transfer
    • 2017-ANNI : Vorticity Annihilation at High Reynolds Numbers
    • 2017-SLOCET : Sheldf sLOpe impact on Coastal Eddy Turbulence
    • 2023-HERCULES : A physical model of the Gibraltar Strait
    • 2025-HERCULES : mixing experimental modelling and numerical experiments

    • Archives before 2001

  • Videos and various news

    • History - The dam project in the bay of Mont Saint Michel
    • Transnational access to LEGI’s Coriolis rotating platform
    • Portrait of PhD student: Cruz Garcia Molina

Jobs, Phd Subjects

• Associate Professor / Grenoble

  • Archives: previous proposals

• Engineer

  • Archives: previous proposals

• Post-doc

  • Postdoctoral fellowship: Adaptation strategies to heat waves during the 21st century: impact on air quality
  • Postdoctoral fellowship: Bubble dynamics in complex two-phase flows

  • Archives: previous proposals

    • Postdoctoral fellowship: Adaptation strategies to climate change during future heat waves
    • Postdoctoral fellowship: Large scale plunging jets: impact, energy dissipation and air entrainment
    • Postdoctoral fellowship: Numerical simulation of nucleate boiling : from bubbles towards the macroscopic scale

• Thesis scholarships

  • PhD proposal: Experimental study of the coupling between inertial particles and the wake of an Ahmed body: application to vehicle aerodynamics under heavy rain
  • PhD proposal: Characterization of fluid flow within a group of fish

  • Archives: old sujects

    • PhD proposal: Analysis and modelling of the hydrodynamics of industrial bubble columns
    • PhD proposal: Experimental study of gravity wave turbulence in 1D: Is Weak Turbulence unstable ?
    • PhD proposal: Study of turbulence of elastic or capillary waves: From weak to strong turbulence
    • PhD proposal: Numerical simulations of the cavitation erosion process
    • PhD proposal: Numerical Study of the Physics of assisted Atomization to Control its Efficiency
    • PhD proposal: Görtler vortices and induced mixing in gravity currents over curved boundaries
    • PhD proposal: Atomization of a liquid jet by a turbulent swirled gas co-flow: experimental characterization, mechanism and modeling
    • PhD proposal: From local physical processes to global dynamics driving turbidity currents
    • PhD proposal: Fluid phase change simulation in porous and cracked media based on multimodal full-field measurements
    • PhD proposal: The role of the turbulence cascade in wind energy applications
    • PhD proposal: Aero-acoustic study of the influence of waveguide dynamics on sound production, propagation and radiation for human speech
    • PhD proposal: Experimental study of bubbles at very high Reynolds numbers
    • PhD proposal: Aeroacoustic and phonetic study of sound source interactions in speech
    • PhD proposal: Cavitation hydrodynamique sous champ magnétique intense
    • PhD proposal: Étude expérimentale et numérique d’un oscillateur fluidique
    • PhD proposal: Numerical simulation of nucleate boiling: from bubbles towards the macroscopic scale
    • PhD proposal: Decoding fragmentation mechanisms in supersonic spray via MHz X-ray imaging
    • PhD proposal: Deformation and migration in shear-driven flows
    • PhD proposal: Interactions spray - particules pour des enjeux de qualité de l’air
    • PhD proposal: Characterization of turbulent cavitating flows in the wake of a two-dimensional obstacle
    • PhD proposal: Numerical Investigation of the Hydrodynamic Instabilities of Pump-Turbines Operating at No-Load Conditions

• Traineeship

  • Archives: old sujects

    • Master’s degree internship - Étude de nébuliseurs microstructurés pour l’introduction d’échantillons dans les ICP-MS
    • Master’s degree internship - Simulations avancées d’un écoulement de marche descendante avec cavitation
    • Master’s degree internship - Étalonnage de sonde optique en spray
    • Master’s degree internship - Modélisation et simulation des effets thermodynamiques en cavitation
    • Master’s degree internship - Développement d’une boite à outils libre de traitement d’images de fluide par GPU
    • Master’s degree internship - Discrete element modelling of bedload sediment transport and size segregation
    • Master’s degree internship - 2017-2018: Vents catabatiques sur forte pente alpine
    • Master’s degree internship - 2017-2018 : Hydro-acoustic sediment flux profiling in highly turbulent particle flows
    • Master’s degree internship - Experimental study of a double chamber injector
    • Master’s degree internship (6 month) - Modeling and simulation of supercavitating flows
    • Second year internship (2 months) - Modelind and simulation of supercavitating flows
    • Master’s degree internship - Tension cell for measuring bubble dynamics
    • Master’s degree internship - 3D Numerical Modelling of an active Soil Depressurization Sytems for indoor air quality impr
    • Internship proposal - Experimental and theoretical study of the influence of mouth mask on the upper airway fluid and aero-acoustic mechanisms: respiration and human speech sound production
    • Internship proposal - Experimental and theoretical study of the influence of structural properties on the fluid-structure interaction underlying the human voice without and with pathology
    • Internship proposal - Experimental and theoretical study of the influence of time-varying waveguide geometry on fluid flow and aero-acoustics: application to articulation during speech production
    • Internship proposal - Modelling sand transport under waves using a two-phase flow approach
    • Internship proposal - Experimental investigation of condensation in porous media
    • Master’s degree internship - Numerical analysis of flow and morphological patterns around moving objects
    • Master’s degree internship - Numerical simulation of air-entrainment in plunging jets and hydraulic jumps
    • Master’s degree internship - Thermique dans un micro-régénérateur
    • Internship proposal - Étude de la thermique d’une micro-torpille supercavitante
    • Master’s degree internship - Numerical modelling of condensation in porous media
    • Master’s degree internship - RANS modelling of sediment transport within vegetation
    • Master’s degree internship - Comparaison des outils pour la simulation d’une pompe LH2
    • Master’s degree internship / Final year project - Simulation numérique en mécanique des fluides : ébullition
    • Internship proposal - Numerical modelling of turbulent flow in the presence of vegetation
    • Internship proposal - Étude en soufflerie de l’aérodynamique du sillage des véhicules routiers de type corps d’Ahmed sous condition climatique (pluie)
    • Internship proposal - Three-dimensional CFD simulation of scour around a bridge piles
    • Internship proposal - Simulation de l’ébullition du CO2 dans des échangeurs à microcanaux

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Video

• Presentation of the Coriolis force
• Quick description of the LEGI
• Transnational access to LEGI’s Coriolis rotating platform
• ADVP / ACVP ultrasonic technology - sheared boundary layer measurement at very high Reynolds numbers
• Portrait of PhD student: Cruz Garcia Molina