Permanents
Frédéric Dubois
is graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Marseille in 1990. He received a PhD degree in mechanics from the University of Aix-Marseille 2 in 1994. He is now a CNRS research engineer in the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil of Montpellier. His research activity mainly includes numerical modelling, numerical methods, and intensive computation of mechanical systems with contact, dynamics, fracture, multiple physics couplings. He manages the development of an open source software (LMGC90) devoted to the simulation of large collections of bodies in interaction with multiple physics couplings.
Jonathan Lambrechts
obtained his PhD “Finite element methods for coast flows: Application to the Great Barrier Reef” in the SLIM project at the University catholique de Louvain . He is now working as research engineer for the Institute of Mechanics, Material and Civil Engineering in the same university. His research topics include mesh generation, finite element coastal ocean modeling and multiscale fluid-particle modeling.
Vincent Legat
is Full Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics in the Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain. His research topics include the development of mathematical models and numerical tools for predicting the behavior of complex materials and analysing their forming processes, computational rheology, fluid mechanics, modeling of polymeric solutions and melts, modeling of turbulent flows, computational geometry and design, numerical software engineering, non-linear finite element methods and formulations, error estimation and adaptive numerical methods, parallel computing.
PhD Students
Matthieu Constant (2016 – 2020)
graduated in mathematical engineering at Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 2016 and obtained a PhD under the supervision of Prof. V. Legat. His PhD thesis, funded by the F.R.S.-FNRS through a FRIA grant (29627518), consisted in developing an hybrid multiscale model for immersed granular flows on which is based the MigFlow Software.
Nathan Coppin (2018 – Present)
graduated in physical engineering at Université Catholique de Louvain in 2018 and is currently pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Vincent Legat. The goal of his thesis is to study the performance of the MigFlow Software using applications that require the management of frictional contacts.
Michel Henry (2020 – Present)
graduated in mathematical engineering at Université Catholique de Louvain in 2020 and is currently pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Prof. V. Legat.
His PhD thesis will focus on the study of convection phenomena in immersed granular flows using the Migflow Software.
Master students
Juliette Krug (2021 – 2022)
Student in her last year of Mechanical Engineering at Université Catholique de Louvain, she is currently pursuing a master thesis in Multiphase computational fluid dynamics for subsea jet trenching applications supervised by Dr. Jonathan Lambrechts and Prof. Vincent Legat.
Marie-Ombeline Wilmet (2021 – 2022)
Student in her final year of Mechanical Engineering at Université Catholique de Louvain, she is currently pursuing a master thesis with Leïla Schneidesch in Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian simulations to compute pile driving into the ocean floor under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Lambrechts and Prof. Vincent Legat.
Leïla Schneidesch (2021-2022)
Student in final year of Mechanical Engineering at Université Catholique de Louvain, she is currently pursuing a master thesis in Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian simulations to compute pile driving into the ocean floor under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Lambrechts and Prof. Vincent Legat.
Manon Wouters (2021-2022)
Student in final year of Mechatronics Engineering at Université Catholique de Louvain, she is currently pursuing a master thesis in Multi-scale simulation of granular flows under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Lambrechts and Prof. Vincent Legat.
Simon Yans (2021-2022)
Student in his last year of Mechanical Engineering at Université Catholique de Louvain, he is currently pursuing a master thesis on a multiphase fluid dynamics model to understand the apparition of atherosclerosis under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Lambrechts and Prof. Vincent Legat.