Henri Bénard ERCOFTAC Pilot Center
The idea of the first Pilot Center, PEPIT, was to consolidate scientific activities in the study of turbulence in the Rhône-Alpes region. Its success motivated three laboratories (LMFA - École Centrale/INSA/University Claude Bernard in Lyon, LEGI in Grenoble, and Physics Laboratory of École Normale Supérieure in Lyon) to create the new Pilot Center, “Centre Henri Bénard”. Later on, the Institute Jean Le Rond d’Alembert - Sorbonne University joint this center, together with industrial partners, the CEA and the ONERA. On one hand, the objective is to promote visibility and to encourage synergies in studies of turbulence in natural phenomena, on the other hand, this objective is also to stimulate the link between fundamental research in turbulence and its potential applications in the industry.
Scope of interest - hot points in turbulence and beyond
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multi-scales interactions in incompressible turbulence; coherent structures, internal and external intermittency, anisotropy
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turbulence and aeroacoustics ; turbulent compressible flows and choc interactions
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passive and weakly-reacting scalar mixing
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turbulence interaction with heavy particles and bubbles; particles clustering, mechanisms of turbulence modulation
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turbulence and waves, effects of rotation, stratification, aero-acoustics, MHD and plasmas
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turbulence in the presence of liquid/gas interface; the role of turbulence in the phase transition, feedbacks of energy, scalar transport, turbulence-assisted atomization, fragmentation
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turbulence in biological, geophysical and astrophysical applications
Turbulent Cascade II, december 2017