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Overview

Marc Prat is affiliated with the Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse in France, conducting research primarily in Engineering across multiple subfields. Their work focuses notably on Computational Mechanics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Ocean Engineering.

The research topics covered by Marc Prat span a range of areas including Fuel Cells and Related Materials, Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies, Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films, Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies, as well as Aerogels and Thermal Insulation.

Marc Prat has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Pore network model of drying with Kelvin effect, 2021, published in Physics of Fluids
  • Determination of the throat size distribution of a porous medium as an inverse optimization problem combining pore network modeling and genetic and hill climbing algorithms, 2021, published in Physical review. E
  • Non-local equilibrium continuum modeling of partially saturated drying porous media: Comparison with pore network simulations, 2020, published in Chemical Engineering Science
  • From micro-scale to macro-scale modeling of solute transport in drying capillary porous media, 2020, published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Numerical study of flow and heat transfer in the vapour grooves of a loop heat pipe evaporator, 2021, published in International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include Didier Lasseux, Joël Pauchet, Thomas David, Otman Maalal, and Mohamed Ahmed-Maloum.

Marc Prat has published extensively in several venues, with notable contributions in:

  • Physical Review Fluids
  • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Physics of Fluids
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Physical review. E

Best Publications

  • Recent advances in pore-scale models for drying of porous media

    M Prat

  • Percolation model of drying under isothermal conditions in porous media

    M. Prat

  • Numerical and experimental network study of evaporation in capillary porous media. Drying rates

    Joao Borges Laurindo;Marc Prat

  • On the influence of pore shape, contact angle and film flows on drying of capillary porous media

    M. Prat

  • Heat and mass transfer with phase change in aporous structure partially heated: continuum model andpore network simulations

    C. Figus;Y.Le Bray;S. Bories;M. Prat

  • Salt stains from evaporating droplets

    Noushine Shahidzadeh;Marthe F. L. Schut;Julie Desarnaud;Marc Prat

  • Numerical and experimental network study of evaporation in capillary porous media. Phase distributions

    Joao Borges Laurindo;Marc Prat

  • Two-phase flow and evaporation in model fibrous media: Application to the gas diffusion layer of PEM fuel cells

    O. Chapuis;M. Prat;M. Quintard;E. Chane-Kane

  • Three periods of drying of a single square capillary tube.

    Fabien Chauvet;Paul Duru;Sandrine Geoffroy;Marc Prat

  • Three-dimensional pore network simulation of drying in capillary porous media

    Y. Le Bray;M. Prat

  • Experimental study of the effect of sodium chloride on drying of porous media: The crusty–patchy efflorescence transition

    H. Eloukabi;N. Sghaier;S. Ben Nasrallah;M. Prat;M. Prat

  • On the influence of sodium chloride concentration on equilibrium contact angle

    N. Sghaier;M. Prat;S. Ben Nasrallah

  • Scale effect and two-phase flow in a thin hydrophobic porous layer. Application to water transport in gas diffusion layers of proton exchange membrane fuel cells

    M. Rebai;M. Rebai;M. Prat;M. Prat

  • Isothermal drying on non-hygroscopic capillary-porous materials as an invasion percolation process

    M. Prat

  • Drying of capillary porous media with a stabilized front in two dimensions.

    M Prat;F Bouleux

  • Pore network simulations of drying of capillary porous media. Influence of thermal gradients

    Frédéric Plourde;M. Prat

  • Discrete Salt Crystallization at the Surface of a Porous Medium

    Stéphanie Veran-Tissoires;Stéphanie Veran-Tissoires;Manuel Marcoux;Manuel Marcoux;Marc Prat;Marc Prat

  • Effect of Efflorescence Formation on Drying Kinetics of Porous Media

    Nour Sghaier;Marc Prat;Marc Prat

  • Heat and mass transfer between a porous medium and a parallel external flow. Application to drying of capillary porous materials

    W. Masmoudi;M. Prat

  • Performance loss of proton exchange membrane fuel cell due to hydrophobicity loss in gas diffusion layer: Analysis by multiscale approach combining pore network and performance modelling

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  • Drying processes in the presence of temperature gradients : pore-scale modelling

    HP Henk Huinink;Leo L Pel;Maj Thijs Michels;M Prat

Frequent Co-Authors

Evangelos Tsotsas
Evangelos Tsotsas Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
S. Ben Nasrallah
S. Ben Nasrallah University of Monastir
Daniel Bonn
Daniel Bonn University of Amsterdam
Michel Quintard
Michel Quintard National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse
Manfred N. Partl
Manfred N. Partl Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Noam Weisbrod
Noam Weisbrod Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Shmuel Assouline
Shmuel Assouline Agricultural Research Organization
Jan Carmeliet
Jan Carmeliet ETH Zurich
Dani Or
Dani Or University of Nevada Reno

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