| Dr Dominique Morvan |
| Tue 17 Jan 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 |
| Classroom 4, Hudson Beare Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
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Bio: Prof. Dominique Morvan (born in 1960), after a MSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1983 (University of Aix-Marseille 2) and a PhD in Mathematics and Fluid Mechanics in 1985 (University of Aix-Marseille 2), he integrates the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the University of Compiègne in 1985, as a researcher of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Between 1988 and 2000, he works in two CNRS laboratories in Marseille: Institute of Fluid Mechanics (IMF) and Institute of Non Equilibrium Phenomena (IRPHE). In 2000, he was nominated as a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Aix-Marseille (AMU), since 2014 he is the director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is a specialist in fluid mechanics, biomechanics, heat and mass transfer, turbulence and combustion modelling, CFD. During his career, he has studied blood flows in the singularities of arterial tree (aorta cross, left ventricle …), mass transfers in bio-artificial organs (pancreas), the thermo-convective and thermo-capillary flows of liquid metals (laser surface treatment, welding, crystal growth), the behaviour of wildfires and more generally the fire safety problems. He is the author of around 50 articles in peer review journals, 160 conferences and 40 scientific and technical reports.
Abstract: Physical modelling of bushfires: This presentation is dedicated to wildland fire modelling using a fully physical approach. Basically the approach is based on a multiphase formulation, consisting in solving the conservation equations (mass, momentum, energy …) governing the coupled system constituted by the vegetation layer and the surrounding atmosphere. After a detailed presentation of the physical model, some numerical results are presented illustrating the potential of this approach in the understanding of the physical mechanisms controlling the propagation of wildfires and the influence of some external conditions such the wind flow upon the behaviour of the fire front.
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