Research

Areas of interest :

• Acoustic/Elastic/Gravity/Electromagnetic wave propagation

• Metamaterials/Metasurfaces

• Homogenization methods

• Asymptotic analysis

• Damage mechanics

PhD Students :

• Sarah Tachet (2021 - 2025), now post-doctorate at Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique 

• Joar Zhou Hagström (2019 - 2023), now post-doctorate at Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans

• Vincent Crozet (2015 - 2019), now research engineer at CEA

• Rogers Hinojosa Cordova (2015 - 2018), now research engineer at Dassault Systems

Post-doctoral students :

• Vivek Singh (2024-2025), now post-doctorate at CEA

• Eduardo Monsalve (2021 - 2023), now research engineer at Saint-Gobain

• Nicolas Lebbe (2022 - 2023), now CNRS researcher at Institut Laplace

• Vasiliki Kyrimi (2021 - 2022)​

Publications :

2025

• Pham, K., Maurel, A., & Chabchoub, A. (2025). Homogenized Korteweg–de Vries and Boussinesq models for anisotropic propagation of solitary waves over a structured bathymetry. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1024, A43.

• Maurel, A., Pham, K., Semblat, J. F., & Félix, S. (2025). Urban Seismology: A Homogenization Perspective on Site–City and Site–Foundation–City Interaction. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

• Singh, V., Pham, K., Fischer, A. G., & Danas, K. (2025). Interfacial homogenization of a periodically corrugated surface in linear elasticity. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 106420.

• Tachet, S., Pham, K., & Maurel, A. (2025). Homogenized models of acoustic metainterfaces made of three-dimensional Helmholtz resonators. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 481(2316), 20241000.

• Maurel, A., Brulé, S., Guenneau, S., & Pham, K. (2025). Seismic wave interaction with buried cavity networks: Analytical modeling and resonance effects. Wave Motion, 103666.

2024

• Euvé, L. P., Pham, K., Petitjeans, P., Pagneux, V., & Maurel, A. (2024). Experimental demonstration of negative refraction of water waves using metamaterials with hyperbolic dispersion. Physical Review Fluids, 9(11), L112801.

• Marigo, J. J., Pham, K., Maurel, A., & Guenneau, S. (2024). Dispersion and ellipticity of Rayleigh waves in a soil substrate supporting resonant beams and plates. Physical Review B, 110(9), 094110.

• Monsalve, E., Pham, K., & Maurel, A. (2024). Jump conditions for Boussinesq equations due to an abrupt depth transition. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 84(4), 1792-1817.

• Euvé, L. P., Pham, K., Petitjeans, P., Pagneux, V., & Maurel, A. (2024). Perfect active absorption of water waves in a channel by a dipole source. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 990, A9.

2023

• Zhou Hagström, J., Pham, K., & Maurel, A. (2023). Modeling acoustic space-coiled metacrystals. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 83(6), 2499-2521.

• Pham K., Maurel A. How space-time modulations modify spoof surface plasmons and scattering properties in acoustic metagratings, Physical Review B, 108(2), 022303.

• Euvé, L. P., Pham, K., Porter, R., Petitjeans, P., Pagneux, V., & Maurel, A. Perfect resonant absorption of guided water waves by Autler-Townes splitting. Physical Review Letters, 131(20), 204002.

• Lebbe, N., Pham, K., & Maurel, A. Optimization of plasmonic metasurfaces: a homogenization-based design. Journal of Computational Physics, 495, 112553.

• Zhou Hagström J., Pham K., Maurel A. Revisiting effective acoustic propagation in labyrinthine metasurfaces, Wave Motion, 122, 103196.

• Euvé L.-P., Pham K., Maurel A. Negative refraction of water waves by hyperbolic metamaterials, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 961, A16.

• Lebbe N., Maurel A., Pham K. Homogenized transition conditions for  plasmonic metasurfaces, Physical Review B, 107, 085124.

• Pham K., Lebbe N., Maurel A. Diffraction grating with varying slit width: Quasi-periodic homogenization and its numerical implementation, Journal of Computational Physics, 111727.

• Marigo J.-J., Maurel A., Pham K. Negative refraction in a single-phase flexural metamaterial with hyperbolic dispersion. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 105126.

2022

• Pham K., Maurel A., Diffraction grating with space-time modulation, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 469, 111528.

• Lebbe N., Pham K., Maurel A. Stable GSTC formulation for Maxwell’s equations. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 70 (8), 6825-6840.

• Porter R., Pham K., Maurel A. Modeling Autler-Townes splitting and acoustically induced transparency in a waveguide loaded with resonant channels. Physical Review B,  105, 134301.

2021

• Euvé L.-P., Pham K.,  Petitjeans P., Pagneux V., Maurel A. Time domain modelling of a Helmholtz resonator analogue for water wave. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 920, A22.

• Euvé L.-P., Piesniewska N., Maurel A., Pham K., Petitjeans P., Pagneux V. Control of the swell by an array of Helmholtz resonators. Crystals, 11(5), 520.

• Delourme B., Luneville E., Marigo J.-J., Maurel A., Mercier J.-F., Pham K. Accuracy and stability of effective models in the time domain - the case of resonant Faraday cages. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 477(2245), 20200668.

• Marigo J.-J., Pham K., Maurel A., Guenneau S. Effective model for elastic waves in a substrate supporting an array of plates/beams with flexural and longitudinal resonances. Journal of Elasticity, 146.1 (2021): 143-177.

• Pham K., Maurel A., Marigo J.-J. Revisiting imperfect interfaces laws for 2D elastodynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 477(2245), 20209519.

• Pham K., Mercier J.-F., Fuster D., Marigo J.-J., Maurel A. Scattering of acoustic waves by a non-linear resonant bubbly screen. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 906, A19.

• Zhou Hagström J., Maurel A., Pham K. The interplay between Fano and Fabry–Pérot resonances in dual-period metagratings. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 477.2255 (2021): 20210632.

2020

• Pham K., Maurel A., Felix S. Guenneau S.. Hybridized Love Waves in a Guiding Layer Supporting an Array of Plates with Decorative Endings. Materials, 13(7), 1632.

• Pham K., Maurel A., Mercier J.-F., Félix S., Cordero M.L., Horvath C. Perfect Brewster transmission by ultrathin perforated films. Wave Motion, 93, 102485.

• Marigo J.-J., Pham K., Maurel A., Guenneau, S. Effective model for elastic waves propagating in a substrate supporting a dense array of plates/beams with flexural resonances. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 143, 104029. 

• Touboul M., Pham K., Maurel A., Marigo J.-J., Lombard. B., Bellis C. Effective resonant model and simulations in the time-domain of wave scattering from a periodic row of highly-contrasted inclusions. Journal of Elasticity, 142, 53-82.

2019

• Maurel A., Pham K., Marigo J.-J. Homogenization of thin 3D periodic structures in the time domain - effective boundary and jump conditions, Fundamentals and Applications of Acoustic Metamaterials : From Seismic to Radio Frequency, 1, 73-105.

• Maurel A., Pham K. Multimodal method for the scattering by an array of plates connected to an elastic half-space. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(6), 4402-4412.

• Maurel A., Mercier J.-F., Pham K., Ourir A., Marigo J.-J. Enhanced resonance of sparse arrays of Helmholtz resonators - Application to perfect absorption. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145, 2552.

• Hinojosa R. B. C., Pham K., Rouby C. Extension of the lubrication theory for arbitrary wall shape : An asymptotic analysis. Comptes Rendus Mécanique, 347(5), 389- 396.

• Maurel A., Pham K., Marigo J.-J. Scattering of gravity waves by a periodically structured ridge of finite extent. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 871, 350–376.

2018

• Maurel A., Marigo J.-J., Pham K., Guenneau S. Conversion of Love waves in a forest of trees. Physical Review B, 98, 134311.

• Maurel A., Marigo J.-J., Mercier J.-F., Pham K. Modelling resonant arrays of the Helmholtz type in the time domain. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 474(2210), 20170894.

• Maurel A., Marigo J.-J., Pham K. Effective boundary condition for the reflection of shear waves at the periodic rough boundary of an elastic body. Vietnam Journal of Mechanics, 40 (4), 303–323.

2017

• Pham K., Maurel A., Marigo J.-J. Two scale homogenization of a row of locally resonant inclusions - the case of anti-plane shear waves. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 106, 2017, 80–94.

• Pham K. A one dimensional variational model of superelasticity for shape memory alloys. Vietnam Journal of Mechanics, 39 (3), 275–301.

• Marigo J.-J., Maurel A., Pham K., Sbitti, A. Effective Dynamic Properties of a Row of Elastic Inclusions : The Case of Scalar Shear Waves. Journal of Elasticity, 128 (2), 265–289.

2015

• Alessi R., Pham K. Variational formulation and stability analysis of a three dimensional superelastic model for shape memory alloys. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 87,150–176.

2014

• Pham K. An energetic formulation of a one dimensional model of superelastic shape memory alloys. Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 26 (6), 833-857.

• Leon Baldelli A., Maurini C., Pham K. A gradient approach for the macroscopic modeling of superelasticity in softening shape memory alloys. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 52, 45-55.

• Fuster D., Pham K., Zaleski S. Stability of bubbly liquids and its connection to the process of cavitation inception. Physics of Fluids, 26, 042002.

2013

• Pham K., Kouznetsova V.G., Geers M.G.D. Transient computational homogenization for heterogeneous materials under dynamic excitation. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 61 (11), 2125-2146.

2012

• Pham K., Marigo J.-J. Stability of homogeneous states with gradient damage models : size effects and shape effects in the three-dimensional setting. Journal of Elasticity, 110(1), 63-93.

• Pham K., Marigo J.-J. Damage localization and rupture with gradient damage models. Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 19, 5-19.

• Pham K., Marigo J.-J. From the onset of damage to rupture : construction of responses with damage localization for a general class of gradient damage models. Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 25(2-4), 147-171.

2011

• Pham K., Marigo J.-J., Maurini C. The issues of the uniqueness and the stability of the homogeneous response in uniaxial tests with gradient damage models. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 59 (6), 1163-1190.

2010

• Pham K., Amor H., Marigo J.-J., Maurini C. Gradient damage models and their use to approximate brittle fracture. International Journal of Damage Mechanics, 20 (4), 618–652.

• Pham K., Marigo J.-J. Approche variationnelle de l’endommagement : II. Les modèles à gradient. Comptes Rendus Mécanique, 338 (4), 199–206.

• Pham K., Marigo J.-J. Approche variationnelle de l’endommagement : I. Les concepts fondamentaux. Comptes Rendus Mécanique, 338 (4), 191–198.

2009

• Pham K., Marigo J.-J. Construction and analysis of localized responses for gradient damage models in a 1d setting. Vietnam Journal of Mechanics, 31 (3–4), 233– 246.

• Pham K., Marigo J.-J. Stability of non localized responses for damaging materials. Vietnam Journal of Mechanics, 30 (4), 1–11.