Employment

• 2023 - date: NERC Independent Research Fellow, DAMTP
• 2019 - 2023: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, DAMTP
• 2018 - 2019: EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow, DAMTP

College

• 2022 - date: Senior Research Fellow, Magdalene College
• 2019 - 2022: College Lecturer, Magdalene College

Degrees

• 2014 - 2018: PhD Applied Mathematics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
• 2013 - 2014: MSc Fluid Mechanics, Ecole Polytechnique (France)
• 2008 - 2013: MSc Mechanical Engineering, Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France)

Research

Adrien is part of the Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics research group and works in the G. K. Batchelor Laboratory. His current research focuses on the stratified shear flows taking place in an inclined duct connecting two reservoirs containing fluids at different densities. He is mainly interested in elucidating the stability, nonlinear waves, turbulent transition and mixing of such flows, with applications to ocean dynamics. More recently, he also developed an interest in the physics of decompression sickness experienced while SCUBA diving, using experiments on hydrogels that mimic soft body tissues.

Adrien is funded by a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Independent Research Fellowship entitled 'How does stably-stratified, shear-driven turbulence mix our oceans and estuaries?' whose goal is to better represent small-scale turbulence in large-scale flows of importance to our climate and society. He is also part a larger team effort in DAMTP that combines large datasets from laboratory experiments and direct numerical simulations, funded by a European Research Council (ERC) grant entitled ‘Stratified Turbulence And Mixing Processes’ (STAMP) led by Prof Paul Linden.

Publications

Submitted

• A. Lefauve, M. M. P. Couchman. Routes to stratified turbulence revealed by unsupervised classification of experimental data (2023) [arXiv:2305.04051]

• A. Lefauve, M. M. P. Couchman. Data-driven classification of sheared stratified turbulence from experimental shadowgraphs (2023) [arXiv:2305.04048]

• A. Atoufi, L. Zhu, A. Lefauve, J. R. Taylor, R. R. Kerswell, S. B. Dalziel, G. A. Lawrence, P. F. Linden. Stratified inclined duct: two-layer hydraulics and instabilities (2023) [arXiv:2301.13035]

• L. Zhu, A. Atoufi, A. Lefauve, J. R. Taylor, R. R. Kerswell, S. B. Dalziel, G. A. Lawrence, P. F. Linden. Stratified inclined duct: direct numerical simulations (2023) [arXiv:2301.09773]

Refereed

• X. Jiang, A. Lefauve, S. B. Dalziel, P. F. Linden. The evolution of coherent vortical structures in increasingly turbulent stratified shear layers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 947, A30 (2022) [pdf] [data and movies]
  • See the Focus on Fluids article [pdf]

• A. J. K. Yang, E. W. Tedford, J. Olsthoorn, A. Lefauve, G. A. Lawrence. Velocity perturbations and Reynolds stresses in Holmboe instabilities. Physics of Fluids, 34, 074110 (2022) [pdf]

• A. Lefauve, P. F. Linden. Experimental properties of continuously-forced, shear-driven, stratified turbulence. [data and movies]
  • Part 1. Mean flows, self-organisation, turbulent fractions, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 937, A34 (2022) [pdf]
  • Part 2. Energetics, anisotropy, parameterisation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 937, A35 (2022) [pdf]

• Y-M. Ducimetière, F. Gallaire, A. Lefauve, C. P. Caulfield. The effects of spanwise confinement on stratified shear instabilities. Physical Review Fluids, 6, 103901 (2021) [pdf]

• J. Cudby, A. Lefauve. Weakly nonlinear Holmboe waves. Physical Review Fluids, 6, 024803 (2021) [pdf] [data]

• Y. Zhang, M. A. Etzold, A. Lefauve. Growth of gas-filled penny-shaped cracks in decompressed hydrogels. Soft Matter, 17, 815-825 (2021) [pdf] [supp. mat.] [movie] [data]
  • See the [front cover] artwork
  • See the news stories in the APS Physics magazine [web] [pdf]

• A. Lefauve, P. F. Linden. Buoyancy-driven exchange flows in inclined ducts. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 893, A2 (2020) [pdf] [data]

• A. Lefauve, J. L. Partridge, P. F. Linden. Regime transitions and energetics of sustained stratified shear flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 875, 658-699 (2019) [pdf] [data]

• J. L. Partridge, A. Lefauve, S. B. Dalziel. A versatile scanning method for volumetric measurements of velocity and density fields. Measurement Science and Technology, 30, 055203 (2019) [pdf]

• A. Lefauve, J. L. Partridge, Q. Zhou, S. B. Dalziel, C. P. Caulfield, P. F. Linden. The structure and origin of confined Holmboe waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 848, 508-544 (2018) [pdf] [movies] [data]
  • See the Focus on Fluids article [pdf]
  • See the APS Gallery of Fluid Motion [outreach movie]
  • See a [technical poster] and an [outreach poster]

• A. Lefauve, C. Muller, A. Melet. A three-dimensional map of tidal dissipation over abyssal hills. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120, doi:10.1002/2014JC010598 (2015) [pdf] [supp. mat.]

• A. Lefauve, D. Saintillan. Globally aligned states and hydrodynamic traffic jams in confined suspensions of active asymmetric particles. Physical Review E: Rapid Communications, 89 021002 (2014) [pdf] [supp. mat.]

Others

• A. Lefauve. Waves and turbulence in sustained stratified shear flows. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge (2018) [pdf]

• A. Lefauve, J. L. Partridge, S. B. Dalziel, P. F. Linden. Three-dimensional, time-resolved velocity and density measurements of the stratified shear flow in an inclined duct. Proceedings of the VIIIth Symposium on Stratified Flows, San Diego USA (2016) [pdf]

• A. Lefauve. A global map of tidal dissipation over abyssal hills. MSc thesis, École Polytechnique (2014) [pdf]

• A. Lefauve. Theory and simulations of confined active suspensions. MSc thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2013) [pdf]

Selected awards & honours

• 2022: Journal of Fluid Mechanics 'Focus on Fluids' article (paper selected out of ~120 paper this month) [pdf]

• 2021: Soft Matter Journal Front Cover artwork featuring and promoting one high-quality paper per weekly issue [front cover]

• 2020: 'STEM for Britain' Silver Medal in Mathematical Sciences at poster competition for members of Parliament in Westminster [poster]

• 2019: 'UK Fluids Network' Dissertation Prize for best PhD thesis in fluid mechanics submitted to a UK university in 2018 [web]

• 2018: 'EUROMECH' Young Scientist Award for best oral presentation at the European Fluid Mechanics Conference in Vienna (Austria) [web]

• 2018: Journal of Fluid Mechanics 'Focus on Fluids' article to explain the impact of my paper to the broader community [pdf]

• 2017: 'ERCOFTAC' Osborne Reynolds First Prize for best oral presentation in UK-wide competition for early-career fluid dynamicists in Manchester [web]

Below is an automatic, redundant publication list. Feel free to ignore.