LEGI - UMR 5519

Momentum transport in renewable energy systems : Wind farms and solar photovoltaic plants
Renewable energy systems are an integral part of the critical need towards decreasing reliance on fossil (...)

Role of the Particle-Fluid-Particle Pressure Tensor in Gas-Liquid and Liquid-Solid Flows
Particle-particle interactions play a crucial role in the fluid dynamics of gas-liquid and liquid-solid (...)

The role of fluid inertia on the orientation of settling anisotropic particles - Application to cloud microphysics
Understanding the angular dynamics of non-spherical particles in turbulent (...)

Scale-by-scale turbulence energy in non-homogeneous turbulence
A theory of non-homogeneous turbulence is developed and applied to boundary-free shear flows. The theory introduces assumptions of (...)

Turbulent disperse two-phase flows : simulations and data-driven modeling
Many natural and industrial processes involve the flow of solid particles or liquid droplets whose dynamical evolution (...)

Ultimate Rayleigh-Bénard and Taylor-Couette turbulence
Rayleigh-Bénard flow - the flow in a box heated from below and cooled from above - and Taylor-Couette flow - the flow between two coaxial (...)

Lagrangian investigation of particle dispersion in turbulence : inhomogeneous seeding and pair dispersion
The question of particle dispersion in turbulent flows is fundamental to understanding (...)

Geoinspired bioreactors : from Earth’s precession to stem cell production
Inspired by the precession of the Earth, a new bladeless mixer has been designed, which consists of a tilted and (...)

Flow patterns and machine learning and to develop predictive reduced order models
Modeling turbulent flows and solving the engineering problem mentioned, is a highly complex task that requires (...)

Turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Benard convection : the geostropic regime
Most geo- and astrophysical flows are driven by strong thermal forcing and affected by high rotation rates. In these (...)