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

Floaters drifting in waves

B. Dhote, L. Danion, F. Moisy, W. Herreman

How does a boat drifting in a wave orient itself? Experiments show that it tends to orient itself either parallel or perpendicular to the wave crest. Why? This is a subtle non-linear effect, which we attempt to elucidate through a combination of experiments, numerical simulations and asymptotic theory.

W. Herreman, B. Dhote, L. Danion, F. Moisy, subm. to J. Fluid Mech. (2023) [arxiv]

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Next seminars:

Prochain seminaire en septembre

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).