Dan Rothman's Group at MIT
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dynamique des Fluides Géologiques
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

Olivier Devauchelle
Post-doc at EAPS


See also the webpages of :

  • Dan Rothman

  • Éric Lajeunesse
  • Clément Narteau
  • Michal Tal
  • François Métivier

  • Christophe Josserand
  • Stéphane Zaleski
  • Pierre-Yves Lagrée
  • Room 54 612
    DEAPS MIT
    77 Massachusetts Avenue
    Cambridge MA 02139-4307
    Tel. : 1 617 253 3077
    E-mail : devauche(at)mit.edu

    Research interests

  • Ravines network formation by seepage erosion

  • Rhomus-shaped erosion patterns

  • Rivers morphodynamics

  • Wetting transition, moving contact line

  • Papers

  • Predicting bedload transport in gravel bed streams : insoluble problem or problem of measures ?, F. Métivier, Y. Liu, C. Narteau, E. Lajeunesse, O. Devauchelle, B. Ye, M. Tal and P. Meunier, submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 2008

  • Stability of bedforms in laminar flows with free-surface: from bars to ripples, O. Devauchelle, L. Malverti, É. Lajeunesse, P.-Y. Lagrée, C. Josserand and K.-D. Nguyen Thu-Lam, submitted to J. Fluid Mech.

  • Rhomboid Beach Pattern: a Benchmark for Shallow Water Geomorphology, O. Devauchelle, L. Malverti, É. Lajeunesse, C. Josserand, P.-Y. Lagrée and F. Métivier, submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface

  • Mobile Bank Conditions for Laminar Micro-Rivers, O. Devauchelle, C. Josserand, P.-Y. Lagrée and S. Zaleski, Comptes Rendus Geoscience, Volume 340, Issue 11, November 2008, Pages 732-740 (preprint)

  • Morphodynamic modeling of erodible laminar channels, O. Devauchelle, C. Josserand, P.-Y. Lagrée and S. Zaleski, Phys. Rev. E, 76, 056318, 2007 (preprint)

  • Forced dewetting on porous media, O. Devauchelle, C. Josserand and S. Zaleski, J. Fluid Mech., 574, pp. 343-364, 2007 (preprint)

  • PhD thesis

    Here is my PhD thesis (in PDF format, and in French), defended in Paris on December the 10th, 2007

    Download the slides of my PhD defense (in PDF format, and in French)


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