The CoPerMix project on mixing, led by E. Villermaux and involving H. Lhuissier and B. Metzger at IUSTI and many other partners across Europe, has just started. Please check out our new website (https://www.copermix-itn.eu/) and also the PhD offers (https://www.copermix-itn.eu/vacancies/) including ours at IUSTI (https://bloenmetzger.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/marie-curie-phd-position-available/).

Mathieu Souzy is the winner of the visualization challenge from the Digital Rock Portal (https://www.digitalrocksportal.org/) of the National Science Foundation. Watch this video to experience the flow within a 3D porous media (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkHmAcAheAQ&feature=youtu.be). Note that this video was generated from 3D experimental measurements of …

Mathieu Souzy (alumni IUSTI) reçoit le premier prix de la vidéo au concours Digital Rocks Read more »

Sanjeev Kumar, Marc Medale, Paolo Di Marco and David Brutin The evaporation of sessile drops of various volatile and non-volatile liquids, and their internalflow patterns with or withoutinstabilities have been the subject of many investigations. The current experiment is a …

Article dans npj Microgravity “Sessile volatile drop evaporation under microgravity” Read more »

Baptiste Darbois Texier, Henri Lhuissier, Yoël Forterre & Bloen Metzger Summary ‘The New Wave’ Oobleck continues to fascinate us. Researchers from Aix-Marseille University in France showed that, as it flows down an inclined slope, Oobleck forms very regular and prominent …

Article dans Communications Physics “Surface-wave instability without inertia in shear-thickening suspensions” Read more »

Article dans la provence sur l’analyse de fumigènes par  la plateforme Feux de l’IUSTI: https://www.laprovence.com/article/om/6147102/lom-etudie-les-fumis.htmlQuand le monde universitaire rencontre le milieu de l’OM, il faut se méfier des étincelles. Qui plus est quand il s’agit de fumigènes. Pas de quoi affoler …

Bernard Porterie & Yannick Pizzo: Article dans la provence sur l’analyse de fumigènes par la plateforme Feux de l’IUSTI Read more »

Présentation. – Proceedings : https://phdsymp2020.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Proceedings_phdsymp_2021.pdf– Youtube presentation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TosfqmLU9oo Self-sensing concrete, also known as “Smart concrete”, is obtained by including electrically conductive fibers in cement-based materials. These fibers may allow to reduce electrical resistivity and develop a piezoresitive behaviour. Smart Concrete could therefore be simultaneously …

Hamza ALLAM, doctorant à l’IUSTI, a reçu le prix ‘Best paper award’ à la conférence de la fédération internationale du béton. Read more »

M.Souzy, H.Lhuissier, Y.Méheust, T.Le Borgne and B.Metzger Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IUSTI, UMR 7343, 13453 Marseille, France Geosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, Université de Rennes 1, CNRS, 35042 Rennes, France (Received 29 July 2019; revised 13 December 2019; accepted 5 February …

24/04/2020 : Velocity distributions, dispersion and stretching in three-dimensional porous media Read more »