Research

Publications in international peer-reviewed journals

Papers under review

• Woitischek J., Wilkinson, J. J., Humphreys-Williams, E., Fuller, D., Jackson, M. D., Bahlali, M. L., Kelly, J., Herrington, R. J. (2025), Grain coatings in red-bed sandstones as a metal source for sediment-hosted ore deposits. Ore Geology Reviews.

Published papers

• Bahlali, M. L., Jacquemyn, C., Purkiss, M., Herrington, R., Jackson, M. D. (2025), Copper leaching, transport and deposition in sedimentary basins: Insights from 3-D numerical modelling. Ore Geology Reviews, 106872.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2025.106872 

• Bahlali, M. L., Salinas, P., Jackson, M. D. (2022), Efficient numerical simulation of density-driven flows: Application to the 2- and 3-D Elder problem. Water Resources Research, 58, e2022WR032307.
  https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR032307 

• Hamzehloo, A., Bahlali, M. L., Salinas, P., Jacquemyn, C., Pain, C. C., Butler, A. P., Jackson, M. D. (2022), Modelling Saline Intrusion using Dynamic Mesh Optimization with Parallel Processing, Advances in Water Resources, 104189.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2022.104189

• Bahlali, M. L., Yoo, H., Favier, J., Sagaut, P. (2021), A lattice Boltzmann direct coupling overset approach for the moving boundary problem, Physics of Fluids, 33(5), 053607.
  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0044994

• Yoo, H., Bahlali, M. L., Favier, J., Sagaut, P. (2021), A hybrid recursive regularized lattice Boltzmann model with overset grids for rotating geometries, Physics of Fluids, 33(5), 057113.
  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0045524

• Bahlali, M. L., Henry, C., Carissimo, B. (2020), On the well-mixed condition and consistency issues in hybrid Eulerian/Lagrangian stochastic models of dispersion, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 174(2), 275-296.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-019-00486-9

• Lett, C., Barrier, N., Bahlali, M. L. (2020), Converging approaches for modeling the dispersal of propagules in air and sea, Ecological Modelling, 415, 108858.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108858

• Bahlali, M. L., Dupont, E., Carissimo, B. (2019), Atmospheric dispersion using a Lagrangian stochastic approach: application to an idealized urban area under neutral and stable meteorological conditions, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 193, 103976.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2019.103976

• Bahlali, M. L., Dupont, E., Carissimo, B. (2018), A hybrid CFD RANS/Lagrangian approach to model atmospheric dispersion of pollutants in complex urban geometries, International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 64(1-3), 74-89.
  https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEP.2018.099150

Publications in international conference proceedings

• Bahlali, M. L., Dupont, E., Carissimo, B. (2018), Atmospheric pollutant dispersion modeling in realistic non-homogeneous flows using both a CFD Eulerian RANS and a Lagrangian PDF methods, CWE18 conference, Seoul, South Korea, June 2018

• Bahlali, M. L., Dupont, E., Carissimo, B. (2017), Adaptation of the Lagrangian module of a CFD code for atmospheric dispersion of pollutants in complex urban geometries and comparison with existing Eulerian results, HARMO18 conference, Bologna, Italy, October 2017

PhD 

• PhD thesis, in French
  Adaptation de la modélisation hybride eulérienne/lagrangienne stochastique de Code_Saturne à la dispersion atmosphérique de polluants à l’échelle micro-météorologique et comparaison à la méthode eulérienne
  https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02067289/ 

• PhD thesis, in English (coming soon)
  Adaptation of the hybrid Eulerian/Lagrangian stochastic model of the CFD code Code_Saturne to pollutant atmospheric dispersion at the micro-meteorological scale and comparison with the Eulerian method

Communications

Talks at international conferences

• EGC2025, talk: European Geothermal Congress 2025, Zurich, Switzerland, 10/2025

• SGA2025, talk: The Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits 2025 Conference, Golden, Colorado, USA, 08/2025

• Goldschmidt2025, talk: Goldschmidt2025 Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 07/2025

• EGU25 talk: EGU2025 : European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 04/2025

• AGU24, talk: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2024, Washington DC, USA, 12/2024

• GeolSoc 2024: 11th UK Geothermal Symposium, London, 11/2024

• EGU24, talk: European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 05/2024

• AGU23, talk: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2024, San Francisco, USA, 12/2023

• SGA2023, talk: The Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits 2023 Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 09/2023

•  SEG2023, talk: Society of Economic Geologists 2023 Conference, London, UK, 08/2023

• Goldschmidt2023, talk: Goldschmidt2023 Conference, Lyon, France, 07/2023

• AGU22, talk: AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA, 12/2022

• InterPore2022, talk: 14th Annual Meeting, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 06/2022

• EGU22, talk: European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 05/2022

• AGU21, poster: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, USA, 12/2021

• CWE2018, talk: 7th International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, 06/2018

• HARMO18, talk: 18th International conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes, Bologna, Italy, 10/2017

• ASAAQ14, talk: Atmospheric Sciences and Application to Air Quality, Strasbourg, France, 05/2017

Seminars

• National History Museum London, talk, 02/2022
  Numerical modelling of density-driven flows and towards modelling metal transport in sedimentary basins

• Flinders University, talk, 08/2019
  Saline Intrusion modelling using dynamic mesh optimisation and a double control volume finite element method

• Queen's University Belfast, talk, 07/2019
  Saline intrusion modelling using dynamic mesh optimisation and a double control volume finite element method: Theory, numerics and applications

• Imperial College London, talk, 06/2019
  Hybrid Eulerian/Lagrangian stochastic modelling of pollutant atmospheric dispersion at the micro-meteorological scale

• PhD students seminar at EDF R&D Fluid Mechanics, Energy & Environment Department, talk, 06/2017

• Code_Saturne Users seminar, poster, 04/2017

• Annual Scientific Day, Université Paris-Est, poster, 04/2017

• PhD Day, EDF R&D, poster, 12/2016

• PhD students seminar at EDF R&D Fluid Mechanics, Energy & Environment Department, poster, 06/2016