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55
Citations
11324
World Ranking
899
National Ranking
14

Overview

Michel Quintard is affiliated with the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science.

Their research spans several subfields, including:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

Key topics in their work cover:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
  • Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques

Michel Quintard has published in a variety of academic venues with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Advances in Water Resources
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Journal of Power Sources

Their recent papers include:

  • "Impact of gravity and inertia on stable displacements of DNAPL in highly permeable porous media" (2022, Advances in Water Resources)
  • "Birefringent strands drive the flow of viscoelastic fluids past obstacles" (2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)
  • "Computation of oxygen diffusion properties of the gas diffusion medium - microporous layer assembly from the combination of X-ray microtomography and focused ion beam three dimensional digital images" (2023, Journal of Power Sources)
  • "A LOCAL THERMAL NONEQUILIBRIUM MODEL FOR COUPLED HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER WITH DISPERSION AND THERMAL DIFFUSION IN POROUS MEDIA" (2021, Journal of Porous Media)
  • "Characterizing PEM fuel cell catalyst layer properties from high resolution three-dimensional digital images, Part II: Oxygen effective diffusion and proton effective conductivity tensors" (2024, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy)

Co-authorships have been formed frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Manuel Marcoux
  • Yohan Davit
  • Rachid Ababou
  • Juliette Chastanet
  • Jean-Marie Côme

Michel Quintard has also contributed to academic publishing with a book titled Uncertainty Analyses in Environmental Sciences and Hydrogeology, published by Springer Nature in 2023.

Best Publications

  • On the ability of a Darcy-scale model to capture wormhole formation during the dissolution of a porous medium

    Fabrice Golfier;C. Zarcone;Brigitte Bazin;R. Lenormand

  • One- and Two-Equation Models for Transient Diffusion Processes in Two-Phase Systems

    Michel Quintard;Stephen Whitaker

  • Two-medium treatment of heat transfer in porous media: numerical results for effective properties

    M. Quintard;M. Kaviany;S. Whitaker

  • Transport in ordered and disordered porous media. II: Generalized volume averaging

    Michel Quintard;Stephen Whitaker

  • Transport in ordered and disordered porous media: volume-averaged equations, closure problems, and comparison with experiment

    Michel Quintard;Stephen Whitaker

  • Transport in Ordered and Disordered Porous Media I: The Cellular Average and the Use of Weighting Functions

    Michel Quintard;Stephen Whitaker

  • Cahn-Hilliard/Navier-Stokes Model for the Simulation of Three-Phase Flows

    Franck Boyer;Céline Lapuerta;Sebastian Minjeaud;Bruno Piar

  • Two-phase flow in heterogeneous porous media: The method of large-scale averaging

    Michel Quintard;Stephen Whitaker

  • Convection, dispersion, and interfacial transport of contaminants: Homogeneous porous media

    Michel Quintard;Stephen Whitaker

  • Local thermal equilibrium for transient heat conduction: theory and comparison with numerical experiments

    Michel Quintard;Stephen Whitaker

  • From pore scale to wellbore scale: Impact of geometry on wormhole growth in carbonate acidization

    Charles Edouard Cohen;Didier Ding;Michel Quintard;Brigitte Bazin

  • Homogenization via formal multiscale asymptotics and volume averaging: How do the two techniques compare?

    Yohan Davit;Yohan Davit;Christopher G. Bell;Helen M. Byrne;Lloyd A.C. Chapman

  • 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

  • Transport in chemically and mechanically heterogeneous porous media. I: Theoretical development of region-averaged equations for slightly compressible single-phase flow

    Michel Quintard;Stephen Whitaker

  • A logistic model for the prediction of the influence of water on the solid waste methanization in landfills.

    S. Pommier;D. Chenu;M. Quintard;X. Lefebvre

  • Transport in Ordered and Disordered Porous Media III: Closure and Comparison Between Theory and Experiment

    Michel Quintard;Stephen Whitaker

  • Ecoulement monophasique en milieu poreux: effet des hétérogénéités locales

    M. Quintard;S. Whitaker

  • A local thermal non-equilibrium model for two-phase flows with phase-change in porous media

    F. Duval;F. Fichot;M. Quintard

  • Modelling of carbon–carbon composite ablation in rocket nozzles

    G.L. Vignoles;Y. Aspa;Y. Aspa;Y. Aspa;M. Quintard;M. Quintard

  • Calculation of effective diffusivities for biofilms and tissues

    Brian D. Wood;Michel Quintard;Stephen Whitaker

  • Transport in chemically and mechanically heterogeneous porous media V. Two-equation model for solute transport with adsorption

    Azita Ahmadi;Michel Quintard;Stephen Whitaker

  • Quasi-steady two-equation models for diffusive transport in fractured porous media: large-scale properties for densely fractured systems

    P. Landereau;B. Noetinger;M. Quintard

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Whitaker
Stephen Whitaker University of California, Davis
Oleg S. Pokrovsky
Oleg S. Pokrovsky National Research Tomsk State University
Matthew D. Jackson
Matthew D. Jackson Imperial College London
Olivier Simonin
Olivier Simonin National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse
Jérôme Viers
Jérôme Viers Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Marc Prat
Marc Prat Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse
Anthony R. Kovscek
Anthony R. Kovscek Stanford University
David Labat
David Labat Géosciences Environnement Toulouse
Helen M. Byrne
Helen M. Byrne University of Oxford
Massoud Kaviany
Massoud Kaviany University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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