Outreach, awards and news

Outreach

• Some movies: see our youtube channel...
• "Fête de la Science 2016": come and visit our lab IRPHE on Thursday, October 13. 2016. More info here.
• "Fête de la Science 2017": come and visit our lab IRPHE on Thursday, October 13. 2017.
• "Fête de la Science 2018": come and visit our lab IRPHE on Thursday, October 11. 2018.
• "Fête de la Science 2019": come and visit our lab IRPHE on Thursday, October 10. 2019.
• episode from the YouTube serie Zeste de Science: "Comment traverser un océan de magma ?"
• article in Pour la Science: "Vents stratosphériques : un cycle né du chaos" by L.-A. Couston, B. Favier & M. Le Bars, Feb. 2019.
• episode from the YouTube serie Zeste de Science: "Objectif Jupiter".
• book Fluid Mechanics of Planets and Stars, M Le Bars and D Lecoanet (editors), Springer (2020).
• article Un jacuzzi pour recréer Jupiter en laboratoire, D Lemasquerier et al., The Conversation (2020).

Awards

• 2016 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award Winner (JB Wacheul): Fall and fragmentation of liquid metal in a viscous fluid
• Benjamin Favier has been awarded the Young Scientist Award of the European Turbulence Conference 2017 (Stockholm, August 21-24)
• Michael Le Bars has been awarded the 2019 Leconte prize by the French Academy of Sciences
• 2019 APS/DFD Milton van Dyke Award Winner (D Lemasquerier): Gas giants' zonal jets in the laboratory

News

• listen to Ultraviolet - Red sky Upon your Head, and watch the clip made from images of task 1...
• Spring School "Fluid Mechanics of Planets and Stars" in Udine (Italy), 16-20 April 2018.
• Our paper on Kinematic Dynamos driven by Mechanical Forcings (Reddy et al. 2018) is in cover of Volume 45, issue 4 of Geophysical Research Letters.
• Our paper "Order out of chaos: slowly-reversing mean flows emerge from turbulently-generated internal waves" is the subject of a "focus" article in APS Physics.
• CNRS news about our paper "Order out of chaos: slowly-reversing mean flows emerge from turbulently-generated internal waves"
• CNRS press release about our paper "Inertial wave turbulence driven by elliptical instability"
• Our paper "Experimental study of the nonlinear saturation of the elliptical instability: inertial wave turbulence versus geostrophic turbulence" is in cover of Volume 879 of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics
• CNRS press release about our paper "Remote determination of the shape of Jupiter’s vortices from laboratory experiments"