List of all current CoPerMix PhD subjects
Mixing of liquids with different viscosities
Objectives: This PhD aims at understanding how miscible liquids with different viscosities mix.
Read MoreDeep ocean mixing by breaking internal waves
Objectives: Understand the mixing efficiency in Oceans through the interplay between stratification and wave stirring.
Read MoreMixing in granular systems
Objectives: Objectives: Frame the lamellar approach to the description of mixing into granular systems.
Read MoreMixing in multiphase, multicomponent fluid systems in confined geometries
Objectives: Characterize the role of interface dynamics and interfacial mass transport in mixing and stirring at the pore scale. Determine the impact of mixing on multicomponent fluid mixtures in porous media.
Read MoreImpact of pore structures on mixing dynamics
Objectives: Quantify the impact of the complex pore structures upon fluid stretching laws and reactive mixing.
Read MoreA new geo-inspired mixer to optimize bioreactors
Objectives: Characterize mixing in a soft-mixer in order to maximize transport while minimizing shear.
Read MoreImpact of Structure on Mixing and Dispersion Dynamics in Heterogeneous Porous Media
Objectives: Link medium heterogeneity to flow deformation and mixing; derive regional scale dispersive mixing model.
Read MoreConvective mixing in heterogeneous porous media
Objectives: Quantify the effect of heterogeneity on stirring and mixing of fluids under convective instabilities
Read MoreMixing and precipitation patterns linked to groundwater evaporation in arid environments
Objectives: Identify and characterize mineral precipitation patterns linked to groundwater evaporation in arid environments and their spatial and temporal evolution using reactive transport modelling techniques.
Read MoreEntrainment and turbulent mixing at the interface of atmospheric clouds
Objectives: Understand the impact of turbulent mixing of clear air with humid air on the broadening of the cloud droplet size distribution and thus on the initialization of rain formation
Read MoreReactive mixing in porous media
Objectives: Theoretical and experimental study of the impact of advective mixing on the yield of the reaction A+B->C.
Read MoreChemical control of interfacial hydrodynamic instabilities
Objectives: Analyze theoretically how chemical reactions can actively influence mixing by modifying, creating or suppress- ing a hydrodynamic instability at the interface between two fluids
Read MoreLearning to navigate in complex odor landscapes
Objectives: Attack the problem of olfactory navigation building upon the recent successful application of Reinforcement Learning to bird soaring in turbulent environments
Read MoreBacterial growth and competition in scalar mixtures
Objectives: Understand and model the spatial patterns, growth dynamics and competition of bacteria in heterogeneous scalar fields composed of electron donors and acceptors originating from different sources
Read MoreChemotactic strategies in heterogeneous concentration fields
Objectives: Define the chemotactic strategy in fragmented/intermittent concentration fields and its impact on bacterial resi- dence time distribution in porous media
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