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Sébastien Michelin

Sébastien Michelin

Overview

Sébastien Michelin is affiliated with École Polytechnique in France and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans several subfields, including Condensed Matter Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Computational Mechanics, and Mechanical Engineering.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics

Their publications have appeared predominantly in a variety of venues, with multiple papers in these frequently published journals and repositories:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • Soft Matter
  • Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Recent significant papers include:

  • Self-Propulsion of Chemically Active Droplets, 2022, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • High-Throughput Measurements of Intra-Cellular and Secreted Cytokine from Single Spheroids Using Anchored Microfluidic Droplets, 2020, Small
  • Hydrochemical interactions of phoretic particles: a regularized multipole framework, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Flutter and resonances of a flag near a free surface, 2020, Journal of Fluids and Structures
  • Steady state propulsion of isotropic active colloids along a wall, 2022, Physical Review Fluids

Collaboration is an active part of Sébastien Michelin's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Kevin Lippera
  • Adrien Saint-Sardos
  • Sébastien Sart
  • Elodie Brient-Litzler
  • Gabriel Amselem

Best Publications

  • Self-propulsion of pure water droplets by spontaneous Marangoni-stress-driven motion.

    Ziane Izri;Marjolein N. van der Linden;Sébastien Michelin;Olivier Dauchot

  • Phoretic self-propulsion at finite P'eclet numbers

    Sébastien Michelin;Eric Lauga

  • Energy harvesting efficiency of piezoelectric flags in axial flows

    Sébastien Michelin;Olivier Doaré

  • Resonance and propulsion performance of a heaving flexible wing

    Sébastien Michelin;Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith

  • Piezoelectric coupling in energy-harvesting fluttering flexible plates: linear stability analysis and conversion efficiency

    Olivier Doaré;Sébastien Michelin

  • Spontaneous autophoretic motion of isotropic particles

    Sébastien Michelin;Eric Lauga;Denis Bartolo

  • Resonance and propulsion performance of a heaving flexible wing

    S. Michelin;S. G. Llewellyn Smith

  • Phoretic self-propulsion at finite Peclet numbers

    Sébastien Michelin;Eric Lauga

  • Vortex shedding model of a flapping flag

    Sébastien Michelin;Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith;Beverley J. Glover

  • Low speed flutter and limit cycle oscillations of a two-degree-of-freedom flat plate in a wind tunnel

    Xavier Amandolese;Sébastien Michelin;M. Choquel

  • Efficiency optimization and symmetry-breaking in a model of ciliary locomotion

    Sébastien Michelin;Eric Lauga

  • An unsteady point vortex method for coupled fluid–solid problems

    Sébastien Michelin;Sébastien Michelin;Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith

  • Optimal feeding is optimal swimming for all P'eclet numbers

    Sébastien Michelin;Eric Lauga

  • On the efficiency of energy harvesting using vortex-induced vibrations of cables

    Clément Grouthier;Sébastien Michelin;Rémi Bourguet;Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi

  • Energy harvesting from axial fluid-elastic instabilities of a cylinder

    Kiran Singh;Sébastien Michelin;Emmanuel de Langre

  • Monitoring the orientation of rare-earth-doped nanorods for flow shear tomography.

    Jongwook Kim;Sébastien Michelin;Michiel Hilbers;Lucio Martinelli

  • Autophoretic locomotion from geometric asymmetry

    Sébastien Michelin;Eric Lauga

  • Optimal feeding is optimal swimming for all Péclet numbers

    Sébastien Michelin;Eric Lauga

  • Linear stability analysis of coupled parallel flexible plates in an axial flow

    S. Michelin;S. Michelin;S.G. Llewellyn Smith

  • Clustering-induced self-propulsion of isotropic autophoretic particles

    Akhil Varma;Thomas D Montenegro-Johnson;Sébastien Michelin

Frequent Co-Authors

François Gallaire
François Gallaire École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Thierry Gacoin
Thierry Gacoin École Polytechnique
Demetrios T. Papageorgiou
Demetrios T. Papageorgiou Imperial College London
Jean-Pierre Boilot
Jean-Pierre Boilot École Polytechnique
Beverley J. Glover
Beverley J. Glover University of Cambridge
Denis Sipp
Denis Sipp Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales

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