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Soap Film Drainage Under Tunable Gravity Using a Centrifugal Thin Film Balance Open

Antoine Monier, Kévin Gutierrez, Cyrille Claudet, Franck Celestini, Christophe Brouzet , et al. · 2025

Surface bubbles are an abundant source of aerosols, with important implications for climate processes. In this context, we investigate the stability and thinning dynamics of soap films under effective gravity fields. Experiments are perfor…

Flowing Menisci: Coupled Dynamics and Liquid Exchange with Soap Films Open

NULL AUTHOR_ID, Antoine Monier, Isabelle Cantat, Christophe Brouzet, Christophe Raufaste · 2025

Liquid foams exhibit menisci whose lengths range from hundreds of microns in microfoams to several centimeters in macroscopic bubble arrangements. These menisci are known to thin under gravity until reaching a steady thickness profile, whe…

Optimum control strategies for maximum thrust production in underwater undulatory swimming Open

Li Fu, Sardor Israilov, Jesús Sánchez-Rodríguez, Christophe Brouzet, Guillaume Allibert , et al. · 2025

Fishes, cetaceans, and many other aquatic vertebrates undulate their bodies to propel themselves through water. Swimming requires an intricate interplay between sensing the environment, making decisions, controlling internal dynamics, and …

Flowing menisci: coupled dynamics and liquid exchange with soap films Open

Alexandre Vigna-Brummer, Antoine Monier, Isabelle Cantat, Christophe Brouzet, Christophe Raufaste · 2025

Liquid foams exhibit menisci whose lengths range from hundreds of microns in microfoams to several centimeters in macroscopic bubble arrangements. These menisci thin under gravity until reaching a steady thickness profile, where hydrostati…

Undulatory underwater swimming: Linking vortex dynamics, thrust, and wake structure with a biorobotic fish Open

Christophe Brouzet, Christophe Raufaste, Médéric Argentina · 2025

Flapping-based propulsive systems rely on fluid-structure interactions to produce thrust. At intermediate and high Reynolds numbers, vortex formation and organization in the wake of such systems are crucial for the generation of a propulsi…

Self-similar and universal dynamics in drainage of mobile soap films Open

Antoine Monier, François-Xavier Gauci, Cyrille Claudet, Franck Celestini, Christophe Brouzet , et al. · 2024

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Enhanced transport of flexible fibers by pole vaulting in turbulent wall-bounded flow Open

Jérémie Bec, Christophe Brouzet, Christophe Henry · 2024

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Pole vaulting of long fibres in a turbulent wall-bounded flow Open

Christophe Brouzet, Jérémie Bec, Christophe Henry · 2024

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Self-similar and Universal Dynamics in Drainage of Mobile Soap Films Open

Antoine Monier, François-Xavier Gauci, Cyrille Claudet, Franck Celestini, Christophe Brouzet , et al. · 2024

Vertical soap films drain under the influence of gravity, as indicated by the downward motion of colorful horizontal interference fringes observed on their surfaces. In this study conducted with rectangular soap films, we experimentally ch…

Video: Soap film spinning Open

Antoine Monier, Cyrille Claudet, Christophe Brouzet, Franck Celestini, Christophe Raufaste · 2023

Optimum control strategies for maximum thrust production in underwater undulatory swimming Open

Li Fu, Sardor Israilov, Jesús Sánchez-Rodríguez, Christophe Brouzet, Guillaume Allibert , et al. · 2023

Fishes, cetaceans, and many other aquatic vertebrates undulate their bodies to propel themselves through water. Swimming requires an intricate interplay between sensing the environment, making decisions, controlling internal dynamics, and …

Enhanced transport of flexible fibers by pole vaulting in turbulent wall-bounded flow Open

Jérémie Bec, Christophe Brouzet, Christophe Henry · 2023

Long, flexible fibers transported by a turbulent channel flow sample non-linear variations of the fluid velocity along their length. As the fibers tumble and collide with the boundaries, they bounce off with an impulse that propels them to…

convective dissolution in a three-dimensional granular porous medium: An experimental study Open

Christophe Brouzet, Yves Méheust, Patrice Meunier · 2022

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Mechanisms of Cellulose Fiber Comminution to Nanocellulose by Hyper Inertia Flows Open

Jakob Dominik Redlinger-Pohn, Christophe Brouzet, Christian Aulin, Åsa Engström, Anastasia V. Riazanova , et al. · 2022

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CO$_2$ convective dissolution in a 3-D granular porous medium: an\n experimental study Open

Christophe Brouzet, Yves Méheust, Patrice Meunier · 2021

Geological storage of CO$_2$ in deep saline aquifers is a promising measure\nto mitigate global warming by reducing the concentration of this greenhouse gas\nin the atmosphere. When CO$_2$ is injected in the geological formation, it\ndisso…

CO$_2$ convective dissolution in a 3-D granular porous medium: an experimental study Open

Christophe Brouzet, Yves Méheust, Patrice Meunier · 2021

Geological storage of CO$_2$ in deep saline aquifers is a promising measure to mitigate global warming by reducing the concentration of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. When CO$_2$ is injected in the geological formation, it dissolve…

Laboratory model for plastic fragmentation in the turbulent ocean Open

Christophe Brouzet, Raphaël Guiné, Marie-Julie Dalbe, Benjamin Favier, Nicolas Vandenberghe , et al. · 2021

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Effective interfacial tension in flow-focusing of colloidal dispersions: 3-D numerical simulations and experiments Open

Krishne Gowda B. Mote Gowda, Christophe Brouzet, Thibault Lefranc, Daniel Söderberg, Fredrik Lundell · 2019

An interface between two miscible fluids is transient, existing as a non-equilibrium state before complete molecular mixing is reached. However, during the existence of such an interface, which typically occurs at relatively short time sca…

Characterizing the Orientational and Network Dynamics of Polydisperse Nanofibers on the Nanoscale Open

Christophe Brouzet, Nitesh Mittal, Fredrik Lundell, Daniel Söderberg · 2019

Polydisperse fibre networks are the basis of many natural and man-made\narchitectures, ranging from high-performance bio-based materials to components\nof living cells and tissues. The formation and persistence of such networks are\ngiven …

Multiscale Control of Nanocellulose Assembly: Transferring Remarkable Nanoscale Fibril Mechanics to Macroscale Fibers Open

Nitesh Mittal, Farhan Ansari, Krishne Gowda.V, Christophe Brouzet, Pan Chen , et al. · 2018

Nanoscale building blocks of many materials exhibit extraordinary mechanical properties due to their defect-free molecular structure. Translation of these high mechanical properties to macroscopic materials represents a difficult materials…

Three-Dimensional Orientation of Nanofibrils in Axially Symmetric Systems Using Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Open

Tomas Rosén, Christophe Brouzet, Stephan V. Roth, Fredrik Lundell, Daniel Söderberg · 2018

The increased availability and brilliance of new X-ray facilities have in the recent years opened up the possibility to characterize the motion of dispersed nanoparticles in various microfluidic applications. One of these applications is t…

Orientation and dynamics of stiff polymeric nanoparticles Open

Christophe Brouzet, Nitesh Mittal, Daniel Söderberg, Fredrik Lundell · 2018

Successful assembly of suspended nanoscale rod-like particles depends on fundamental phenomena controlling rotational and translational diffusion. Despite the significant developments in fluidic fabrication of nanostructured materials, the…

Scale effects in internal wave attractors Open

Christophe Brouzet, Ilias Sibgatullin, E. V. Ermanyuk, Sylvain Joubaud, Thierry Dauxois · 2017

As a necessary preliminary step toward geophysically significant\nextrapolations, we study the scale effects in internal wave attractors in the\nlinear and nonlinear regimes. We use two geometrically similar experimental\nset-ups, scaled t…

Energy Cascade in Internal Wave Attractors Open

Thierry Dauxois, Christophe Brouzet, E. V. Ermanyuk, Sylvain Joubaud, Denis Le Tourneau , et al. · 2017

One of the important questions in the dynamics of the oceans is related to the cascade of mechanical energy in the abyss and its contribution to mixing. Here, we propose a unique self-consistent experimental and numerical set up that model…

Tracking mixing by overturning internal waves. Open

Phillipe Odier, Yvan Bossman, Baptiste Bourget, Christophe Brouzet, Sylvain Joubaud , et al. · 2016

Tracking mixing by overturning internal waves Philippe Odier, Yvan Dossmann, Baptiste Bourget, Christophe Brouzet, Sylvain Joubaud and Thierry Dauxois Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Univ Claude Bernard, CNRS Laboratoire de Physique, F-69342 Lyon,…

Mixing by internal waves quantified using combined PIV/PLIF technique Open

Yvan Dossmann, Baptiste Bourget, Christophe Brouzet, Thierry Dauxois, Sylvain Joubaud , et al. · 2016

Internal wave attractors : from geometrical focusing to non-linear energy cascade and mixing Open

Christophe Brouzet · 2016

A question of paramount importance in the dynamics of oceans is related to the energy cascade from large to small scales and its contribution to mixing. Internal wave attractors may be one of the possible mechanisms responsible for such a …

Internal wave attractors examined using laboratory experiments and 3D numerical simulations Open

Christophe Brouzet, Ilias Sibgatullin, Hélène Scolan, E. V. Ermanyuk, Thierry Dauxois · 2016

In the present paper, we combine numerical and experimental approaches to study the dynamics of stable and unstable internal wave attractors. The problem is considered in a classic trapezoidal set-up filled with a uniformly stratified flui…

Energy cascade in internal-wave attractors Open

Christophe Brouzet, E. V. Ermanyuk, Ilias Sibgatullin, Thierry Dauxois · 2016

One of the pivotal questions in the dynamics of the oceans is related to the cascade of mechanical energy in the abyss and its contribution to mixing. Here, we propose internal wave attractors in the large amplitude regime as a unique self…

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