About Me

Hello there! My name is Lucien and welcome to my website. I completed my Ph.D. thesis at the end of 2019, afterward I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the LMFA and then CERFACS. I now continue my research as a CNRS research engineer at LMFA. My research interests include fluid dynamics, lattice Boltzmann method, and high-performing-computing. You will find some posts about my research and links to my articles.

Besides my research, I can’t decide between the seaside and the mountainside enjoying windsurfing, sailing, as well as hiking, and mountain biking.

Interests

  • Fluid mechanics
  • Lattice Boltzmann method
  • Multi-species diffusion
  • Kinetic theory
  • Physical oceanography
  • High-Performance-Computing

Education

  • PhD. student in Fluid mechanics, 2016-2019

    Consevatoire National des Arts et Métiers / DynFluid laboratory

  • MSc. student in Numerical mechanics (dual master's degree), 2015-2016

    Université Côte d'Azur

  • MSc. student in Fluid mechanics and Marine engineering, 2013-2016

    SeaTech school of engineering

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

CNRS research engineer

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) / Laboratoire de mécanique des Fluides et d’Acoustique (LMFA)

Jan 2023 – Present Lyon, France
Research engineer on HPC and LBM
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoc

Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul

Apr 2021 – Dec 2022 Toulouse, France
Assessment of the aero-acoustic capabilities of the compressible lattice Boltzmann solver ProLB (Mach numbers up to ∼ 1).
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoc

École Centrale de Lyon, LMFA

Feb 2020 – Mar 2021 Lyon, France
High-fidelity multi-resolution aeroacoustics simulations with the lattice Boltzmann method
 
 
 
 
 

PhD

Consevatoire National des Arts et Métiers, DynFLuid

Jan 2016 – Dec 2019 Paris, France
Simulation of multi-component flows by the lattice Boltzmann method and application to the viscous fingering instability

Projects

Multi-resolution Aeroacoustic Simulations

Numerical simulations aim to represent the real-world dynamics of a physical system with the help of a computer. Despite being an …

Viscous Fingering Instability

Viscous fingering is an ubiquitous instability that occurs when a less viscous fluid displaces a more viscous fluid in a porous medium. …

Multi-component flows

In nature, chemical compounds commonly mix each other. One of the elemental material in fluid mechanics, air, is predominantly composed …

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Lattice Boltzmann model for miscible mixtures: application to the viscous fingering instability

In the first part of the presentation, we introduce a lattice Boltzmann model for miscible gases. In this model, the standard lattice …

Simulation of Viscous Fingering Instability by the Lattice Boltzmann Method

The viscous fingering instability is successfully simulated within a lattice Boltzmann framework. Each species of the mixture is …

Teaching

2020-2021

  • Practicals on free surface flows
    • 36h, undergraduate level, part of fluid mechanics lessons.
    • Introduction to free surface flows in experimental water flumes: specific energy equation, flow-gauging structures (triangular weir, thin plate weir, contraction), depth-discharge curve, hydraulic jump, frictions and Manning’s coefficient.

2017-2019

  • Practicals on numerical optimization
    • 72h, master level, part of computer science and mathematics lessons.
    • Introduction to numerical optimization with Python: conjugate gradient, Newton and quasi-Newton methods, Lagrange-Newton for constrained optimization, and similated annealing for global optimization.