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Overview

Stéphane Popinet is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on fluid dynamics, with significant contributions in computational mechanics and ocean engineering.

Their publication record includes a variety of peer-reviewed journal articles emphasizing numerical simulation and modeling of fluid flow phenomena. Selected recent papers include:

  • High-resolution direct simulation of deep water breaking waves: transition to turbulence, bubbles and droplets production (2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)
  • Role of all jet drops in mass transfer from bursting bubbles (2020, Physical Review Fluids)
  • Direct numerical simulation of bubble-induced turbulence (2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)
  • A vertically-Lagrangian, non-hydrostatic, multilayer model for multiscale free-surface flows (2020, Journal of Computational Physics)
  • Modeling and detailed numerical simulation of the primary breakup of a gasoline surrogate jet under non-evaporative operating conditions (2020, International Journal of Multiphase Flow)

Frequent publication venues for Stéphane Popinet include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

They have collaborated extensively with other researchers. Notable frequent co-authors are:

  • Luc Deike
  • Stéphane Zaleski
  • Youssef Saade
  • Palas Kumar Farsoiya
  • Jiarong Wu

The main fields of study for their research combine engineering and earth and planetary sciences, with specializations in subfields such as:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Oceanography
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science

Popinet's work covers several key topics within fluid dynamics, including:

  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Fluid Dynamics and Mixing
  • Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Best Publications

  • An accurate adaptive solver for surface-tension-driven interfacial flows

    Stéphane Popinet

  • Gerris: a tree-based adaptive solver for the incompressible Euler equations in complex geometries

    Stéphane Popinet

  • A front-tracking algorithm for accurate representation of surface tension

    Stéphane Popinet;Stéphane Zaleski

  • Numerical Models of Surface Tension

    Stéphane Popinet

  • The granular column collapse as a continuum: validity of a two-dimensional Navier–Stokes model with a μ(I)-rheology

    P.-Y. Lagrée;L. Staron;S. Popinet

  • A quadtree-adaptive multigrid solver for the Serre-Green-Naghdi equations

    Stéphane Popinet

  • Simulation of primary atomization with an octree adaptive mesh refinement and VOF method

    Daniel Fuster;Anne Bagué;Thomas Boeck;Luis Le Moyne

  • Jet formation in bubbles bursting at a free surface

    Laurent Duchemin;Stéphane Popinet;Christophe Josserand;Stéphane Zaleski

  • Bubble collapse near a solid boundary: a numerical study of the influence of viscosity

    Stéphane Popinet;Stéphane Zaleski

  • A charge-conservative approach for simulating electrohydrodynamic two-phase flows using volume-of-fluid

    J. M. López-Herrera;S. Popinet;M. A. Herrada

  • Pyramidal and toroidal water drops after impact on a solid surface

    Yuriko Renardy;Stéphane Popinet;Laurent Duchemin;Michael Renardy

  • Coalescence of liquid drops by surface tension.

    A. Menchaca-Rocha;A.N.R.S. Martinez-Davalos;R. Nunez;S. Popinet

  • Air entrainment and bubble statistics in breaking waves

    Luc Deike;W. Kendall Melville;Stéphane Popinet

  • Multiscale simulations of primary atomization

    Gaurav Tomar;Daniel Fuster;Stéphane Zaleski;Stéphane Popinet

  • Numerical simulation of droplets, bubbles and waves: state of the art

    Daniel Fuster;Gilou Agbaglah;Christophe Josserand;Stéphane Popinet

  • Towards Adaptive Grids for Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Simulations

    J. Antoon van Hooft;Stéphane Popinet;Chiel C. van Heerwaarden;Steven J. A. van der Linden

  • Dynamics of jets produced by bursting bubbles

    Luc Deike;Elisabeth Ghabache;Gérard Liger-Belair;Arup K. Das

  • von Kármán vortex street within an impacting drop

    Marie-Jean Thoraval;Kohsei Takehara;Takeharu Goji Etoh;Stéphane Popinet

  • HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS OF IMPINGING JET ATOMIZATION

    Xiaodong Chen;Dongjun Ma;Vigor Yang;Stephane Popinet

  • Quadtree-adaptive tsunami modelling

    Stéphane Popinet

  • Continuum simulation of the discharge of the granular silo: a validation test for the μ(I) visco-plastic flow law.

    L. Staron;P. Y. Lagrée;S. Popinet

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphane Zaleski
Stéphane Zaleski Sorbonne University
Christophe Josserand
Christophe Josserand École Polytechnique
Jacques Magnaudet
Jacques Magnaudet Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse
Joshu J. Mountjoy
Joshu J. Mountjoy National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Paul S. Kench
Paul S. Kench Simon Fraser University
Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo
Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo University of Seville
Frédéric Darboux
Frédéric Darboux INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
James D. L. White
James D. L. White University of Otago
W. Kendall Melville
W. Kendall Melville University of California, San Diego

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