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4025
National Ranking
75

Overview

Jean-François Pinton is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Oceanography and related subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Aerospace Engineering, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work include Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows, Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows, and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jean-François Pinton demonstrate a concentration on fluid mechanics and turbulence phenomena. These papers include:

  • Experiments in Surface Gravity-Capillary Wave Turbulence, 2021, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • Observation of a regime of weak internal wave turbulence in stratified turbulence forced by waves in the Coriolis facility, 2022, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Lagrangian diffusion properties of a free shear turbulent jet, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Experimental observations of internal wave turbulence transition in a stratified fluid, 2022, Physical Review Fluids
  • Experimental study of integrable turbulence in shallow water, 2021, Physical Review Fluids

Their frequent co-authors include Clément Savaro, Pierre Augier, Joël Sommeria, Thomas Valran, and Samuel Viboud, illustrating collaborative work within fluid dynamics and turbulence research communities.

Jean-François Pinton's work has been published predominantly in Physical Review Fluids, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Experiments in Fluids, and Physical Review Letters, indicating a consistent presence in leading journals related to fluid mechanics and earth sciences.

Best Publications

  • What's in a crowd? Analysis of face-to-face behavioral networks

    Lorenzo Isella;Juliette Stehlé;Alain Barrat;Ciro Cattuto

  • Dynamics of person-to-person interactions from distributed RFID sensor networks.

    Ciro Cattuto;Wouter Van den Broeck;Alain Barrat;Vittoria Colizza

  • High-resolution measurements of face-to-face contact patterns in a primary school.

    Juliette Stehlé;Nicolas Voirin;Alain Barrat;Alain Barrat;Ciro Cattuto

  • Generation of a magnetic field by dynamo action in a turbulent flow of liquid sodium.

    Romain Monchaux;Michaël Berhanu;Mickaël Bourgoin;Marc Moulin

  • Simulation of an SEIR infectious disease model on the dynamic contact network of conference attendees

    Juliette Stehlé;Nicolas Voirin;Alain Barrat;Alain Barrat;Ciro Cattuto

  • Estimating Potential Infection Transmission Routes in Hospital Wards Using Wearable Proximity Sensors

    Philippe Vanhems;Alain Barrat;Ciro Cattuto;Jean-François Pinton

  • Universality of rare fluctuations in turbulence and critical phenomena

    S. T. Bramwell;P. C. W. Holdsworth;J.-F. Pinton

  • Measurement of Lagrangian Velocity in Fully Developed Turbulence

    N. Mordant;P. Metz;Olivier Michel;J. F. Pinton

  • Universal fluctuations in correlated systems

    S. T. Bramwell;K. Christensen;J.-Y. Fortin;P. C. W. Holdsworth

  • Velocity measurement of a settling sphere

    N. Mordant;J.-F. Pinton

  • Magnetic field reversals in an experimental turbulent dynamo

    Michaël Berhanu;Romain Monchaux;Stéphan Fauve;Nicolas Mordant

  • Experimental and numerical study of the Lagrangian dynamics of high Reynolds turbulence

    Nicolas Mordant;Emmanuel Lévêque;Jean-François Pinton

  • Numerical study of dynamo action at low magnetic Prandtl numbers.

    Yannick Ponty;Pablo Mininni;David Montgomery;Jean-François Pinton

  • Universal Intermittent Properties of Particle Trajectories in Highly Turbulent Flows

    Alain Arnéodo;R. Benzi;J. Berg;L. Biferale

  • Magnetic fluctuations in the classical XY model: The origin of an exponential tail in a complex system

    S. T. Bramwell;J.-Y. Fortin;P. C. W. Holdsworth;S. Peysson

  • Long time correlations in lagrangian dynamics: a key to intermittency in turbulence.

    N. Mordant;J. Delour;E. Léveque;A. Arnéodo

  • Magnetohydrodynamics measurements in the von Kármán sodium experiment

    Mickaël Bourgoin;Louis Marié;François Pétrélis;Cécile Gasquet

  • Power Fluctuations in Turbulent Swirling Flows

    R. Labbé;R. Labbé;J.-F. Pinton;S. Fauve

  • Acceleration statistics of finite-sized particles in turbulent flow: the role of Faxén forces

    Enrico Calzavarini;Romain Volk;Mickaël Bourgoin;Emmanuel Lévêque

  • The von Karman Sodium experiment: Turbulent dynamical dynamos

    Romain Monchaux;Michaël Berhanu;Sébastien Aumaître;Arnaud Chiffaudel

  • Correction to the Taylor hypothesis in swirling flows

    J.-F. Pinton;R. Labbé;R. Labbé

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas Mordant
Nicolas Mordant Grenoble Alpes University
Bérengère Dubrulle
Bérengère Dubrulle University of Paris-Saclay
Alain Barrat
Alain Barrat Centre de Physique Théorique
Ciro Cattuto
Ciro Cattuto University of Turin
Annick Pouquet
Annick Pouquet National Center for Atmospheric Research
Federico Toschi
Federico Toschi Eindhoven University of Technology
Eberhard Bodenschatz
Eberhard Bodenschatz Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Haitao Xu
Haitao Xu University of Science and Technology Beijing
Bruno Lina
Bruno Lina Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Fabien Anselmet
Fabien Anselmet Aix-Marseille University

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