22nd September 2023: LFMI congratulates its new Doctor ès Sciences
Dr. Alessandro Bongarzone: Self-sustained dynamics and forced resonant oscillations in flows: cross-junction jets and sloshing liquids (Thesis No. 10 334)
3rd April 2023: LFMI welcomes Dr. Tomas Fullana as a postdoctoral researcher.
24th March 2023: LFMI congratulates its new Doctor ès Sciences
Dr. Shahab Eghbali: Columnlike free-interface flows: symmetry breaking and linear instability (Thesis No. 9558)
5th October 2022: LFMI is proud to announce that Dr. Pier Giuseppe Ledda is the winner of the EDME Award 2022 for his PhD thesis.
20th May 2022: LFMI congratulates its new Doctor ès Sciences
Dr. Pier Giuseppe Ledda: From coating flow patterns to porous body wake dynamics via multiscale models (Thesis No. 9970)
15th March 2022: LFMI welcomes Dr. Alice Marcotte as a postdoctoral researcher.
January 2021: New semester and master projects available.
LFMIsts share their recent findings on the whirling instability of a gravity-driven viscous film coating an eccentric cylindrical fiber.
Video submitted to APS Gallery of Fluid Motion 2020 (ID V0008) by: Shahab Eghbali, Dr. Ludovic Keiser, Dr. Edouard Boujo, Prof. François Gallaire.
Ryhming prize
1st July 2021: LFMI congratulates Dr. Ali Amini for being awarded for the Ryhming Prize, 2020.
Applications are welcome. Deadline: November 30th 2020.
Happy Easter!
14th January 2020: LFMI welcomes Dr. Edouard Boujo as a scientist.
26th Novmber 2019: LFMI is proud to announce that Dr. Arnaud Bertsch (LMIS4), Alessandro Bongarzone, Dr. Eunok Yim, Prof. Philippe Renaud (LMIS4) and Prof. François Gallaire are the winners of the 2019 APS/DFD gallery of fluid motion award.
9th October 2019: LFMI is proud to announce that Dr. Gioele Balestra is awarded for the Best EPFL EDME Thesis Award, 2019 and the Ryhming Prize, 2019.
Photo: PhD student Pier Giuseppe Ledda and Prof. François Gallaire © 2019 Alain Herzog/EPFL
17th July 2019: EPFL Scientists, Pier Giuseppe Ledda and Prof. François Gallaire, working in association with colleagues at the University of Twente and the University of Pisa, have studied the link between the number of bristles on dandelion seeds and the ability of those seeds to travel long distances in a stable manner.
30th August 2019: LFMI congratulates its new Doctor ès Sciences
Dr. Isha Shukla: Response of noise-amplifier flows: From linear control to nonlinear jet breakup (Thesis No. 7227)
22nd Novmber 2018: LFMI is proud to announce that Dr. Gaétan Lerisson, Pier Giuseppe Ledda, Dr. Gioele Balestra and Prof. François Gallaire are the winners of the 2018 APS/DFD Milton von Dyke Award at the gallery of fluid motion
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1st November 2018: LFMI welcomes Dr. Giuseppe Antonio Zampogna as a postdoctoral researcher.
6th September 2018: LFMI congratulates its new Doctor ès Sciences
Dr. Gioele Balestra: Pattern formation in thin liquid films: from coating-flow instabilities to microfluidic droplets (Thesis No 8828)
31st August 2018: LFMI congratulates its new Doctor ès Sciences
Dr. Giacomo Gallino: When droplets deform, break up and propel microswimmers (Thesis No 8821)
1st March 2018: LFMI welcomes Dr. Ludovic Keiser as a postdoctoral researcher.
16th February 2018: LFMI congratulates its new Doctor ès Sciences
2nd February 2018: Seminar by Alexandre Stegner (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France) on Intense oceanic eddies, from observations to linear stability analysis
3rd January 2018: LFMI welcomes Dr. Hervé Elettro as a postdoctoral researcher.
1st September 2017: LFMI welcomes Dr. Eunok Yim as a postdoctoral researcher.
15th June 2017: LFMI welcomes Dr. Mathias Bechert as a postdoctoral researcher.
15th Mai 2017: LFMI welcomes Dr. Gaétan Lerisson as a postdoctoral researcher.
3rd April 2017: LFMI welcomes Dr. Lorenzo Siconolfi as a postdoctoral researcher.
5-6 November 2016: Come and discovery what we do at the EPFL Open Days 2016.
7th October 2016: LFMI congratulates its new Doctor ès Sciences
Dr. Francesco Viola: Resonance in swirling wakes and sloshing waves: non-normal and sublinear effects (Thesis No 7276)
15th September 2016: International news on Sloshing with foam
article in AIP Publishing
article in Main on Sunday
article in SCIENCEMAG
article in Diariocritico
article in OnlineNigeria
22nd April 2016: LFMI is proud to announce that Dr. Belinda Bates of the LHE and Dr. Vladislav Mantic Lugo of the LFMI are the winners of the Ryhming Prize
4th April 2016: New article published in the journal Nature Communications in collaboration with a team from MIT.
Chocolate-inspired theory predicts thickness of coatings
Congratulation to the tenured Associate Professor!
Well done François!
4th of December 2015: Seminar Modeling droplets flowing in microchannels by Dr. Mathias Nagel, ETHZ, recipient of the Rhyming Prize 2014
3rd November 2015: ULAMBATOR workshop, December 10th 2015 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles – Registration
2nd November 2015: LFMI congratulates its two new Doctor ès Sciences:
- Dr. Laura Augello: Instability of two-phase co-axial jets at small Reynolds number (Thesis No 6730)
- Dr. Vladislav Mantič Lugo: Too big to grow: self-consistent model for nonlinear saturation in open shear flows (Thesis No 6815)
1st October 2015: LFMI welcomes the visiting Professor Elise Lorenceau.
1st June 2015: LFMI welcomes the visiting Professor Thomas Peacock.
16th April 2015: LFMI is proud to announce that Dr. Mathias Nagel is the winner of the Ryhming Prize 2015 for his PhD thesis.
19th March 2015: An open-source version of the solver ULAMBATOR for two-phase flows in microfluidic channels is available.
10th September 2014: LFMI is proud to announce that Dr. Edouard Boujo is the winner of the EDME Award 2014 for his PhD thesis.
August 2014: LFMI congratulates its two first Doctor ès Sciences:
- Dr. Mathias Nagel: Modeling droplets flowing in microchannels (Thesis No 6269)
- Dr. Edouard Boujo: An adjoint-based approach to the optimal control of separated flows (Thesis No 6234)
International news on Pierre-Thomas Brun’s lasso dynamics from APS March meeting 2014.
Article in Le Figaro