Université Paris-Saclay

Fluides, Automatique
et Systèmes Thermiques

Presentation

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

Head: H. Auradou

Focus on a project

Impacts in a granular medium

Y. Bertho, B. Darbois Texier, P. Gondret
Collaborations: D. Carvalho, J. Crassous

We study the dynamics of penetration of a projectile by impact or by successive impacts in a granular medium.

• D.D. Carvalho, Y. Bertho, E.M. Franklin et al., Phys. Rev. E 109, 054902 (2024)

• A. Seguin, Y. Bertho, B. Darbois Texier, Phys. Rev. E 106, 054904 (2022)

• A. Seguin, Y. Bertho, P. Gondret, J. Crassous, EPL 88, 44002 (2009)

• A. Seguin, Y. Bertho, P. Gondret, Phys. Rev. E 78, 010301(R) (2008)

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.

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).