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Associate Professor in the Aerospace & Ocean Engineering Department at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, USA) and Professor at Arts et Metiers ParisTech (Lille, France).

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Olivier Coutier-Delgosha

MEMBERS OF THE GROUP

Present members

Ben Zhao

PhD Student - Virginia Tech

Analysis of the mechanisms of cavitation erosion

(NSF project 2017 - 2021)

Navid Nematikourabbasloo

PhD student - Virginia Tech

PIV measurements  in cavitating flows

(2018-2020)

Kunpeng Long

PhD student - A&M Paris Tech

Co-advisor M. Dular (University of Ljubljana)

Investigation of cloud cavitation at submillimeter scale

CSC grant (2017-2021)

Lei Shi

PhD student - A&M Paris Tech

Co-advisor A.C. Bayeul-Lainé (A&M Paris Tech)

Numerical simulation of the flow on a lifting profile at high incidence

CSC Grant (2017 - 2021)

Merouane Hamdi

Post-doc fellow - A&M Paris Tech

Co-advisor M. Baudoin (IEMN / Lille 1)

Temperature measurements in cavitation bubbles

ONR NICOP project (2016-2019)

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Mingming Ge

PhD student - Virginia Tech

X-ray imaging in cavitating flows

ONR project (2019-2022)

Hui Wang

PhD student - A&M Paris Tech

Co-advisor A.C. Bayeul-Lainé (A&M Paris Tech)

Analysis of Rain drops falling on oil slicks

CSC grant - 2019-2023

Shuo Liu

PhD student - A&M Paris Tech

Co-advisor A.C. Bayeul-Lainé (A&M Paris Tech)

Effect of waves on oil slicks

CSC grant -  2019-2023

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Mohamed Ghandour

PhD student - A&M Paris Tech

Co-advisor A.C. Bayeul-Lainé

DNS of water / oil /air flows

Grant from the Libanon (2016 - 2020)

Guangjian Zhang

PhD student (A&M ParisTech)

Analysis of the structure and dynamics of cavitating flows by X-ray imaging

CSC Grant (2017 - 2020)

Xinlei Zhang

PhD student - A&M ParisTech / LMFL

Co-advisors T. Gomez (Lille 1 / LMFL) & H. Xiao (Virginia Tech)

Optimization of the modelling of unsteady cavitating flows

CSC Grant (2017 - 2019)

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Dhruv Apte

PhD student - Virginia Tech

Predictive Turbulence Modelling of cavitating flows with Data Assimilation and Physics-Informed Machine Learning

2019 - 2023

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Roshan Kumar Subramanian

PhD student - Virginia Tech

Collapse of laser-induced and HIFU cavitation bubbles

 (2019 - 2023)

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Kaleb Brookshire

MS student  - Virginia Tech

Optimization of surface piercing propellers

(2019 - 2021)

Neil Ashwin Raj

MS student - Virginia Tech

Direct Numerical Simulation of an oil plume

(2019 - 2021)

Prachi Jain

MS student - Virginia Tech

Design and construction of a MOCK circulation loop

2019 - 2020

Drew Jacobs

Undergrad student - Virginia Tech

Thermal effect in cavitating flows 

Summer 2019 & Spring 2020

Zach Holder

Undergrad student - Virginia Tech

Large scale cavitation test rig

Fall 2019

Previous members

Anton Znidarcic

PhD student  - A&M Paris Tech / LML

Co-advisor M. Dular (University of Ljubljana)

Direct Numerical Simulation of cavitating flows

DGA Grant (2012 - 2016)

Rezki Chebli

PhD student  - A&M Paris Tech / LML

Co-advisor B. Audebert (EDF)

RANS Modelling of cavitating flows

CIRT / EDF / CETIM (2010 - 2014)

Mahamadou Adama Maiga

Post-doc fellow - A&M Paris Tech

Ventilated cavitation 

ANR FDRAINH (2013 - 2016)

Ilyass Khlifa

PhD & Post-doc fellow

X-ray imaging of cavitating flows

Analysis of cavitation instabilities

CIRT / EDF / CETIM (2011-2018)

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Aurélia Charrier

Post-doc fellow - A&M Paris Tech / CNES

Co-advisor S. Fuzier (A&M Paris Tech / LMFL)

Temperature measurements in two-phase Nitrogen flow

CNES / Ariane Group Launcher (2017-2018)

Laura Matteo

PhD student - A&M Paris Tech / CEA)

Now advised by A. Dazin (A&M Paris Tech/LMFL)

Modelling of pumps of nuclear reactor operating

in two-phase flow conditions

CEA / ArianeGroup / Areva / CETIM / EDF

And also...

Guillaume Frasse, MS student, 2018, Optimization of the kinematic law of a trochoidal propeller

Theo Delecourt, MS student, 2017, Modelling of the flow in self-rectifying turbines

Yohann Adamzack, MS student, 2017, Investigation of hydrodynamic cavitation in water at high temperature

Vincent Bouillaut, MS student, 2017, Analysis of the instabilities in several geometries of rocket engine pump inducers

Thibault Favre-Bulle, MS student, 2017, Numerical simulation of a trochoidal propeller

Amirhossein Firozi, MS student, 2016, LES simulations of cavitating flows.

Yutao Zhang, MS student, 2016, Optimization of the RANS modelling of cavitating flows.

Ayoub Attigui, MS student, 2016 Analysis of the cavitation instabilities in a rocket engine pump inducer

Mickael Abdillahi, MS student, 2015, Direct numerical simulations of rain drops impacting oil slicks.

Abrani Dimouni, PhD student, 2012 – 2014, investigation of the thermal effects associated with cavitation.

Vincent Bellanger, MS student, 2014, Study of cavitation induced nano-emulsion.

Vlassis Leontidis, Post-doctoral fellow, 2013-2015, investigation of the effects of phase change on the effective roughness in cryogenic flexible pipes, now post-doc in an other group of the laboratory.

Amélie Danlos, Post-doctoral fellow, 2012-2013, Cavitation regime detection through Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, now assistant professor at CNAM (supervised with F. Bakir & F. Ravelet).

Stefania Della Gatta, Post-doctoral fellow, 2006-2007, Development of a 3D unstructured solver for the simulation of two-phase flows, then project manager in GE, recently recruited by SNECMA

Ilyass Khlifa, PhD student, 2011-2014, Fast-X-ray imaging in two-phase flows, now Post-doctoral fellow in my Group

Jean-Elie Mehal, PhD student, 2009-2014, Study of the cavitation instability on a grooved Venturi profile (in parallel to his job of pilot).

Egoi Ortego, PhD student, 2011-2013, development of a system of energy storage based on air compression with liquid moved by pump-turbines, now Post-doctoral fellow at Mines ParisTech (supervised with A. Dazin)

Aljaz Osterman, PhD student, 2008-2011, Cavitation erosion and analysis of thermal effects by IR thermography, now Assistant professor in Ljubljana University, Slovenia.

Sobhi Frikha, PhD student, 2007-2010, Analysis of existing physical cavitation models (supervised with JA. Astolfi).

Sebastien Duplaa, PhD student, 2006-2008, Transient cavitation during fast start-ups of pumps, now Assistant professor at ISAE

Hiva Shamsborhan, PhD student, 2006-2009, Measurement of the speed of sound in a cavitating flow, now Assistant professor at ICAM

Simon Melot, MS student, 2013, Analysis of thermal effects in hydrodynamic cavitation.

Pierre Daudin, MS student, 2012, Study of a racing sailboat: Analysis of the influence of the foil geometry on the performance (supervised with AC. Bayeul).

Norberto Aramburu, MS student, 2011, Experimental measurement of the effective viscosity in a cavitating flow.

Salas Selcuk, MS student, 2011, Analysis of the influence of the turbulence modeling on the simulation of unsteady cavitating flows.

Romain Delion, MS student, 2009, Experimental study of unsteady cavitation by X-ray imaging.

Edvard Srdic, MS student, 2009, Development of a tool for post processing the images of cavitation obtained by X-ray imaging.

Nicolas Butel, MS student, 2007, Numerical simulation of the instabilities in a vaneless diffuser of centrifugal pump (supervised with A. dazin).

Arnault Wolf, MS student, 2007, 3D CFD of the unsteady flow in a squirrel-cage fan.

Sobhi Frikha, MS student, 2006, Numerical modeling of cavitating flows with several existing cavitation models.

Frédéric Bourgeois, MS student, 2005, Numerical simulation of the flow in a 3D centrifugal pump.

Mohammed Rabaï, MS student, 2005, Analysis of the influence of the geometrical definition on the simulation of a rocket engine turbopump inducer.

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