Dr Benjamin Favier

Career

  • 2011-present: Research Associate, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.
  • 2010-2011: Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University.
  • 2009-2010: Teaching Assistant, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France.
  • 2006-2009: PhD, Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France.

Research

  Benjamin Favier's current research interests are magnetic buoyancy instability, convectively-driven dynamos and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. 

Selected Publications

  • B. Favier, P.J. Bushby (2011), "Small-scale dynamo action in rotating compressible convection", J. Fluid Mech., accepted, http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0374
  • B. Favier, F.S. Godeferd, C. Cambon, A. Delache, W.J.T. Bos (2011), "Quasi-static magnetohydrodynamic turbulence at high Reynolds number" J. Fluid Mech 681.
  • B. Favier, F.S. Godeferd, C. Cambon (2011) "On the effect of rotation on magnetohydrodynamic turbulence at high magnetic Reynolds number", Geo. Astro. Fluid Dyn.