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  email : thierry.passot@oca.eu

Biography

I received my Ph.D. in May 1987 from the University of Paris VII.
After a post-doc at the Mathematics Department of the University of Arizona, I was hired at CNRS in 1988.

Research Interests

Plasma Physics: theory, fluid modeling, space plasmas, turbulence, structures, reconnection

Nonlinear waves: Alfvén Wave Dynamics

Patterns: Phase dynamics for Rayleigh-Bénard convection far from onset.
Rotating convection

Compressible flows :  turbulence

Astrophysical fluid dynamics:
Supersonic MHD turbulence in the ISM; statistics of density fluctuations and magnetic pressure

 Hydrodynamic modeling of bacterial colonies

Publications

Publication list (google scholar)

Liste complète (août 2023)

Workshops

Simulations of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in astrophysics: recent achievements and perspectives
Review articles on the topics of this conference have appeared in volume 614 of the Series
Lecture Notes in Physics, published by Springer Verlag, entitled
"Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in Astrophysics"

Simulations numériques de la dynamique des milieux non-collisionnels

Alfvén 2004 Workshop on Space Environment Turbulence
Original papers presented at this conference were published in a special issue of
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, volume 11 and 12 (2004)
Advances in space environment turbulence

The Seventh International Workshop on Nonlinear Waves and Turbulence in Space Plasmas
Original papers presented at this conference were published in a special issue of
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, volume 15 and 16 (2009)
Coupling between large and small scale turbulence in space and laboratory plasmas