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Presentation

Laboratory FAST (Fluides, Automatique et Systèmes Thermiques) is a CNRS research laboratory (UMR 7608), associated with University Paris-Saclay.

Research areas

Head: H. Auradou

Focus on a project

Locomotion in granular media

B. Darbois Texier
Collaborations :J. Herault, A. Ibarra, F. Melo

We are interested in the locomotion strategies employed by animals that move in sand, such as snakes, lizards and cockroaches. We are developing bio-inspired robots to study the interaction between the animal's movement and the granular material. The aim is to understand the physical constraints that govern the movement of these animals in the sand.

• B. Darbois Texier, A. Ibarra, F. Melo, Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 034604 (2021)..


Other experiments in this research area

Neil Ribe honoured by EGU

The EGU (European Geosciences Union) has awarded the Augustus Love Medal to our colleague Neil Ribe for his outstanding contributions to Earth sciences.

He will be celebrated during the EGU General Assembly 2025, which will be held from 27 April – 2 May in Vienna.

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We moved to our new building

Since March 2019, the laboratory FAST has moved to the new building Pascal (building 530).

Visit the new building


 News

Next seminars:

Vendredi 4 Avril 2025 a 14h00
Romain Vallon (IRPHE-Aix Marseille et LMFA-Ecole Centrale Lyon), Interfacial tension effects: a focus on fragmentation and Marangoni flows


L'impermanence du monde - La physique de l'éphémère

E. Guyon, J.-P. Hulin, F. Moisy, M. Rabaud (Flammarion, 2022).


Theoretical Mantle Dynamics

N. Ribe (Cambridge University Press, 2018).


Physical Hydrodynamics - 2nd edition

E. Guyon, J.P. Hulin, L. Petit, C.D. Mitescu (Oxford University Press, 2015).


La matière en désordre

E. Guyon, J.P. Hulin, D. Bideau (2014).


Hydrodynamique physique - 3e édition

E. Guyon, J.P. Hulin, L. Petit (2012).