Senior researcher at CNRS
Head of the research group Turbulence and Instabilities in the period 2006-2015
Head of Centre Henri Bénard, Pilot Center of ERCOFTAC
Coordinator of PMCS2I, the simulation center of École centrale de Lyon
head of the national research group GDR 2865 "Phenomenology of turbulence" 2017-2018
Short vitae on the web site of École centrale de Lyon
Phone: 04 72 18 61 55 / @: fabien DOT godeferd AT ec-lyon DOT fr
Research topics
- Phenomenology of anisotropic turbulence, structure and dynamics
- Turbulence and waves: inertial waves, internal gravity waves
- Magneto-hydrodynamical couplings
- Hydrodynamic instabilities
Methods
- Direct numerical simulations
- Linearized theory
- Spectral, physical, modal analysis
- Quasi-normal closure models
Applications
- Geophysical flows, atmosphere and ocean
- Astrophysics, accretion disks
- Industrial machinery and processes, gyration and variable density effects
PhD students
- [Donato Vallefuoco (2013-2017)]
- Aleksandr Eremin (2015-)
- Ying Zhu (2016-)
- [Jérôme Jansen (2018-)]
- Henri Lam (2018-)
- [Muhammad Zubair Seikh (2018-)]
- Andrea Maffioli, post-doc (2017-2019)
Ongoing projects
- ANR-funded Interaction between large-scale structures, waves and turbulence with laboratory M2C. More about this project.
- Inertial wave turbulence modelling and simulations, with Julian Scott, Anne Cadiou and Aleksandr Eremin
- Analysis of wave-turbulence interactions, with Thierry Dauxois and Philippe Odier from Laboratoire de Physique of École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Project funded by Labex iMUST
- Advanced statistical modelling of strained turbulence, with Claude Cambon and Ying Zhu
- Disentangling wave turbulence from eddy turbulence in stratified or rotating flows , with P.-P. Cortet and A. Delache. Financial support by ANR
- High resolution Direct Numerical Simluations of anisotropic turbulence (rotation and stable stratification) with Alexandre Delache and Louis Gostiaux
- Phenomenology and simulation of rotating turbulence with sophisticated forcing in the homogeneous and the weakly inhomogeneous backgrounds, with Aurore Naso and Donato Vallefuoco
Misc illustrations
Rotating turbulence
Baroclinic instability
