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Sylvain Patinet
Stéphane Perrard
Etienne Reyssat
Virgile Thiévenaz
PMMH
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7 QUAI SAINT BERNARD
75005 PARIS
France
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Séminaire PMMH - Louis-Alexandre Couston (ENS Lyon)
What we know and don't know about the ocean circulation and ice melting around Antarctica
The Antarctic ice sheet is losing mass increasingly rapidly and could
contribute several tens of centimetres of sea-level rise by 2100. In
this presentation I will review our understanding of the southern ocean
circulation, which (we know) is controlling ice melting around
Antarctica and driving the retreat of the ice sheet. I will describe the
ocean dynamics at both large and small scales. Notably, I will explain
why the ocean circulation below ice shelves (floating extensions of the
ice sheet, hundreds of kilometres long) may tip from cold to warm
conditions abruptly. Then, I will review the different (turbulent)
regimes of ice-ocean boundary layers (only few meters thick), which
control heat exchanges between warm deep-water masses and the overlying
ice shelves and icebergs. Throughout the presentation I will highlight
knowledge gaps and discuss recent works from our group, including
laboratory experiments and turbulence-resolving phase change
simulations, aiming to improve our understanding and modelling
capabilities of ocean flows around Antarctica.
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Séminaire PMMH - Etienne Jambon-Puillet, LadhyX
Vendredi 24 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Pendant drops on the underside of wet surfaces : growth, motion and solidification
Pendant drops spontaneously appear on the underside of wet surfaces through the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Due to their detrimental effect on coatings and their tendency to drip, several strategies have been developed to avoid their formation and rationalized with linear stability analysis. I will first briefly (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - François Petrelis (ENS)
Vendredi 31 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Earthquake statistical properties : an explanation for the distribution of magnitude and for the existence of aftershocks
Earthquakes in nature follow several statistical properties. In particular, the distribution of energy released by an earthquake (Gutenberg-Richter's law) and the frequency of aftershocks after a large event (Omori's law) are both power-laws. By studying several earthquake models, we have shown that the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Ko Okumura (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo)
Vendredi 14 juin de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
A hydrodynamic analog of critical phenomena : an uncountably infinite number of universality classes
When a solid object starts falling into a viscous fluid from air-liquid interface, air is entrained into the liquid and eventually detaches from the solid. Such detachment could occur with or without topological change. Recently, it was found that the former case (i.e., breakup, a form of singular transitions) is (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Avin Babataheri (Ladhyx)
Vendredi 20 septembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
1D confinement controls cell shape and migration
Pericytes are mural cells of the microvasculature, they wrap around small vessels, support the vessels mechanically and participate in blood flow regulation. Pericytes are distinguished by two main characteristics ; first their distinct morphology, which has been likened to a “bump on a log”, as they present long (...)
The audience is composed of people with rather heterogeneous backgrounds including specialists in solids, fluids, granular flows, statistical physics... so the idea is to keep your talk understandable by people not necessarily working in your field... The seminar time slot runs from 11am to noon so the best is to make the talk last around 45 minutes to leave some time for discussion.
- Séminaires ESPCI-ENS de biophysique
- Séminaires du Département de Physique de l’ENS
- Séminaires du Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique de l’X
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web FAST)
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web LIMSI)
- Séminaire de Mécanique des Fluides de l’Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert
- Séminaires du laboratoire MSC, Paris VII
- Séminaires Gulliver
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