Turbulence

Christophe Bailly is a Professor of Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics at Ecole Centrale de Lyon (ECL). He graduated from ECL (1990), and received his PhD from Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP) in 1994. He joined the Laboratoire de mécanique des fluides et d'acoustique (LMFA, UMR CNRS 5509) at ECL in 1995. As a lecturer, he served at ECP (1995-2006) and has served at the Ecole nationale supérieure des techniques avancées (ENSTA) since 2001. In 2007, he was appointed a junior member at the Institut universitaire de France. His research activities lie in the area of turbulence and aeroacoustics. He was awarded the Yves Rocard Prize from the French Society of Acoustics (1996) and the Alexandre Joannidès Prize from the Academy of Sciences (2001). He is currently an associate editor of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal since 2005. Geneviève Comte-Bellot obtained her under-graduate diploma in 1953 at the University of Grenoble and her Master degree in Paris in 1954, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. She obtained her Ph Degree in 1963 at the University of Grenoble in the Department of fluid dynamics. Just after having completed her PhD, Geneviève Comte-Bellot obtained a post-doc position at the Johns Hopkins University in the team of Professor Stanley Corrsin in Fluid Mechanics. Coming back to France, Geneviève Comte-Bellot, became a professor at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon (ECL), which is connected to the University of Lyon. There, she launched research into aeroacoustics and founded the Centre Acoustique at ECL. During the same time, Geneviève Comte-Bellot improved and used the constant voltage anemometer which permits to measure velocity fluctuations even when large amplitudes are present. Presently, she continues working to obtain temperature fluctuations. Geneviève Comte-Bellot is an Emeritus Professor at ECL, corresponding member of the Académie des sciences in Paris, member of the French Académie des technologies and associate member of the American National Academy of Engineering.

Introduction to turbulence.- Statistical description of turbulent flows.- Wall-bounded turbulent flows.- Free turbulent flows: jets and wakes.- Vortex dynamics.- Homogeneous and isotropic turbulence.- The dynamics of isotropic turbulence.- Direct and large eddy simulation of turbulent flows.- Turbulence models.- Experimental methods.