Anne Davaille Directeur de Recherches CNRS Laboratoire FAST - Bat. 502 Campus Universitaire - 91405 Orsay Cedex  (France) Phone: 33 1 69 1 58056 - Fax: 33 1 69 15 80 60 Room: 203 email: Heat and Fluid Flow Instabilities and Turbulence

Research Interests: Convection and Mixing in Natural Systems

• Convection in viscous fluids
  thermal and compositional effects
  patterns, regime diagrams
  complex rheology
  particles and drying


• Instabilities


• Mixing in miscible heterogeneous fluids


• Planetary Mantle Dynamics
  planets convective evolution
  plate tectonics
  plumes and subduction
  small-scale convection
  hotspots, traps and superswells


• Magma chambers and lava lakes


• Laboratory experiments: developping new techniques





Gallery of mantle motions ...







Publications

• Mantle plumes: Thin, fat, successful, or failing? Constraints to explain hot spot volcanism through time and space
  I.Kumagai, A. Davaille, K. Kurita, E. Stutzmann, Geophys. Res. Lett 35, L16301, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008GL035079 (2008).
• Thermal boundary layer instabilities in viscous fluids
  A. Davaille , S. Androvandi , J. Vatteville , A. Limare , V. Vidal, M. Lebars, ISFV13 - 13th International Symposium on Flow Visualization, July 1-4, 2008, Nice, France, Abstract etendu, 12pp. (2008).
• Thermal plumes visualization: differential interferometry versus thermochromic liquid crystals
  A. Limare, I. Kumagai, J. Vatteville, A. Davaille, ISFV13 - 13th International Symposium on Flow Visualization, July 1-4, 2008, Nice, France, Abstract etendu, 12pp. (2008).
• Laboratory studies of mantle convection
  A. Davaille and A. Limare Treatise of Geophysics vol.7 "Mantle Dynamics", eds D. Bercovici and J. Schubert, Elsevier, 89-165 (2007).
• On the fate of thermal plumes at density interface
  I.Kumagai, A. Davaille, K. Kurita Earth Planet. Sci. Lett 254, L16301, 180-193 (2007).
• Fluid Mechanics of mantle plumes
  N. Ribe, A. Davaille, U. Christensen Mantle plumes: a multi-displinary approach eds J. Ritter and U. Christensen, Springer, Heidelberg (2006).
• Azores hotspot deep signature in tomographic models
  G.Silveira, E. Stutzmann, A. Davaille, J.-P. Montagner, and L. Mendes-Victor J. Volcano. Geotherm. Res 156, L16301, 23-34 (2006).
• Convective Patterns under the Indo-Atlantic «box»
  A. Davaille, E. Stutzmann, G. Silveira, J. Besse & V. Courtillot Earth Planet. Sci. Lett 239, L16301, 2393-252 (2005).
• On the transient nature of mantle plumes
  A. Davaille, J. Vatteville Geophys. Res. Lett. 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL023029(2005).
• Thermal modeling of subducted plates: tear and hot spot at the Kamchatka corner
  A. Davaille, J. Lees, Earth Planet. Sci.Lett 226, 293-304 (2004).
• Convection Multi-échelles dans le Manteau Terrestre
  A.Davaille, Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, IPG/ Univ. Paris7 (2004).
• Whole-layer convection in an heterogeneous planetary mantle
  M. Le Bars, A. Davaille, J. Geophys. Res 209, doi:10.1029/2003JB002617 (2004).
• Large interface deformation in two-layer thermal convection of miscible viscous fluids
  M. Le Bars, A. Davaille, J. Fluid Mechanics 499, 75-110 (2004).
• Three distinct types of hot spots into the Earth's mantle
  V. Courtillot, A. Davaille, J. Besse & J. Stock, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett 205, 295-308 (2003).
• Thermal convection in a heterogeneous mantle
  A. Davaille, M. LeBars and C. Carbonne, CRAS Géosciences 335 /1, 141-156 (2003).
• Intermittence des instabilités petite échelle dans la convection de Rayleigh-Bénard forcée par un écoulement cisaillant
  V.Vidal, C. Crambes and A. Davaille, Compte-rendus de la 6e rencontre du Non-Linéaire (ed. Y. Pomeau & R. Ribotta), pp 301-306. Non-Linéaire Publications (2002).
• Stability of thermal convection in two superimposed miscible viscous fluids
  M. Le Bars, A. Davaille, J. Fluid Mechanics 471, 339-363 (2002).
• Simultaneous generation of hotspots and superswells by convection in a heterogeneous planetary mantle
  A.Davaille, Nature 402, 756-760 (1999).
• Two-layer thermal convection in viscous fluids
  A.Davaille, J. Fluid Mechanics 379, 223-253 (1999).
• Heat flow and thickness of the lithosphere in the canadian shield
  C. Jaupart, J-C Mareschal, L. Guillou-Frottier, A. Davaille, J. Geophys. Res 103, 15269-15286 (1998).
• Onset of thermal convection in fluids with temperature-dependent viscosity: Application to the oceanic mantle
  A.Davaille, C. Jaupart, J. Geophys. Res 99, 19853-19866 (1994).
• Thermal convection in lava lakes
  A.Davaille, C. Jaupart, Geophys. Res. Lett 20, 1827-1830 (1993).
• Transient high-Rayleigh number thermal convection with large viscosity variations
  A.Davaille, C. Jaupart, J. Fluid Mech 253, 141-166 (1993).