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Overview

Vincent Legat is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research spans multiple disciplines, principally within the fields of engineering and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions also in computational mechanics, atmospheric science, oceanography, management, monitoring, policy and law, and numerical analysis.

Their work covers a variety of topics including granular flow and fluidized beds, landslides and related hazards, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, fluid dynamics simulations and interactions, meteorological phenomena and simulations, numerical methods for differential equations, and advanced optimization algorithms research.

Among their recent scholarly publications are:

  • Consistent Boundary Conditions for Age Calculations, 2020, published in Water
  • Numerical Stability and Performance of Semi-Explicit and Semi-Implicit Predictor-Corrector Methods, 2022, published in Mathematics
  • Collapse dynamics of two-dimensional dry and immersed granular columns of elongated grains, 2023, published in Physical Review Fluids
  • Numerical investigation of the density sorting of grains using water jigging, 2021, published in Powder Technology
  • Simulation of air invasion in immersed granular beds with an unresolved FEM-DEM model, 2020, published in Computational Particle Mechanics

Frequent publishing venues for their work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Mathematics
  • Computational Particle Mechanics
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Water

Collaborators who frequently coauthor with Vincent Legat are:

  • Jonathan Lambrechts
  • Nathan Coppin
  • Éric Deleersnijder
  • Michel Henry
  • Frédéric Dubois

Vincent Legat's research often intersects applied and theoretical aspects of computational mechanics and earth sciences, particularly through numerical methods and simulations relevant to granular flows, fluid dynamics, and environmental processes. Their contributions include advancing predictive models and computational techniques relevant to landslides, atmospheric phenomena, and granular material behavior under fluid interaction.

Best Publications

  • An elastic-viscous-plastic sea ice model formulated on Arakawa B and C grids

    Sylvain Bouillon;Miguel Angel Morales Maqueda;Vincent Legat;Thierry Fichefet

  • A new modeling framework for sea-ice mechanics based on elasto-brittle rheology

    Lucas Girard;Sylvain Bouillon;Jérôme Weiss;David Amitrano

  • The elastic–viscous–plastic method revisited

    Sylvain Bouillon;Thierry Fichefet;Vincent Legat;Gurvan Madec

  • A fully implicit wetting-drying method for DG-FEM shallow water models, with an application to the Scheldt Estuary

    Tuomas Kärnä;Benjamin de Brye;Olivier Gourgue;Jonathan Lambrechts

  • A multi-scale model of the hydrodynamics of the whole Great Barrier Reef

    Jonathan Lambrechts;Emmanuel Hanert;Eric Deleersnijder;Paul-Emile Bernard

  • An efficient Eulerian finite element method for the shallow water equations

    Emmanuel Hanert;Daniel Y. Le Roux;Vincent Legat;Eric Deleersnijder

  • The Lagrangian particle method for macroscopic and micro-macro viscoelastic flow computations

    P Halin;G. Lielens;Roland Keunings;Vincent Legat

  • General mean-field homogenization schemes for viscoelastic composites containing multiple phases of coated inclusions

    C. Friebel;Issam Doghri;Vincent Legat

  • The backward-tracking Lagrangian particle method for transient viscoelastic flows

    P Wapperom;Roland Keunings;Vincent Legat

  • New closure approximations for the kinetic theory of finitely extensible dumbbells

    G. Lielens;P Halin;I Jaumain;Roland Keunings

  • High-resolution, unstructured meshes for hydrodynamic models of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    Sébastien Legrand;Eric Deleersnijder;Emmanuel Hanert;Vincent Legat

  • The FENE-L and FENE-LS closure approximations to the kinetic theory of finitely extensible dumbbells

    G. Lielens;Roland Keunings;Vincent Legat

  • Practical evaluation of four mixed finite element methods for viscoelastic flow

    F. Debae;Vincent Legat;Marcel Crochet

  • The consistent streamline-upwind/Petrov-Galerkin method for viscoelastic flow revisited

    Marcel Crochet;Vincent Legat

  • A flux-limiting wetting–drying method for finite-element shallow-water models, with application to the Scheldt Estuary

    Olivier Gourgue;Richard Comblen;Jonathan Lambrechts;Tuomas Kärnä

  • An efficient parallel implementation of explicit multirate Runge-Kutta schemes for discontinuous Galerkin computations

    Bruno Seny;Jonathan Lambrechts;Thomas Toulorge;Vincent Legat

  • Finite element simulation of a filament stretching extensional rheometer

    R. Sizaire;Vincent Legat

  • Multiscale mesh generation on the sphere

    Jonathan Lambrechts;Richard Comblen;Vincent Legat;Christophe Geuzaine

  • Parametric study of the mixing efficiency in a kneading block section of a twin-screw extruder

    Bernard Alsteens;Vincent Legat;T Avalosse

  • Advection schemes for unstructured grid ocean modelling

    Emmanuel Hanert;DY Le Roux;Vincent Legat;Eric Deleersnijder

  • A three-dimensional unstructured mesh finite element shallow-water model, with application to the flows around an island and in a wind-driven, elongated basin

    Laurent White;Eric Deleersnijder;Vincent Legat

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Deleersnijder
Eric Deleersnijder Université Catholique de Louvain
Jean-François Remacle
Jean-François Remacle Université Catholique de Louvain
Eric Wolanski
Eric Wolanski James Cook University
Thierry Fichefet
Thierry Fichefet Université Catholique de Louvain
Roland Keunings
Roland Keunings Université Catholique de Louvain
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Claude Veraart
Claude Veraart Université Catholique de Louvain
Marc Elskens
Marc Elskens Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis James Cook University
Marcel Crochet
Marcel Crochet Université Catholique de Louvain

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