All Stories

  1. Reflections of a writer at a summer residency

    Article • Leonardo, June 2018, The MIT Press

    Dr Patrice Le Gal, Ainissa Ramirez, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, Katharine Hawthorne

  2. Different wave types occur in a laboratory experiment modelling the mid-latitude atmosphere.

    Article • Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patrice Le Gal, Costanza Rodda

  3. Experimental study of internal wave generation by convection in water

    Article • Fluid Dynamics Research, June 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  4. Flows Driven by Libration, Precession, and Tides

    Article • Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, January 2015, Annual Reviews

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  5. Tide-driven shear instability in planetary liquid cores

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  6. Irreversible Dynamics: A topical issue dedicated to Paul Manneville

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  7. Focusing of Surface Waves

    Article • December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  8. Rotating thermal flows in natural and industrial processes

    Article • Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  9. Elliptical instability in hot Jupiter systems

    Article • Icarus, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  10. Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Internal Gravity Waves Excited by Turbulent Penetrative Convection in Water Around Its Density Maximum

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  11. Preface

    Article • Comptes Rendus Mécanique, November 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  12. Waves and Instabilities in Rotating and Stratified Flows

    Article • October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  13. The universal aspect ratio of vortices in rotating stratified flows: experiments and observations

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  14. The universal aspect ratio of vortices in rotating stratified flows: theory and simulation

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  15. Revisiting the two first instabilities of the flow in an annular rotor-stator cavity

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  16. Experimental evidence of the Strato-rotational instability

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, November 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  17. Lois analytiques pour les écoulements en cavité rotor–stator

    Article • Mécanique & Industries, May 2008, EDP Sciences

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  18. Variability in the bioluminescence response of the dinoflagellate Pyrocystis lunula

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, April 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  19. A statistical study of spots in torsional Couette flow

    Article • Journal of Engineering Mathematics, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  20. Hysteretic mode exchange in the wake of two circular cylinders in tandem

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  21. Elliptical instability of the flow in a rotating shell

    Article • Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, August 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  22. Flow-induced vibrations of high mass ratio flexible filaments freely hanging in a flow

    Article • Physics of Fluids, March 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Christophe Eloy, Dr Patrice Le Gal

  23. Bioluminescence of the dinoflagellate Pyrocystis noctiluca induced by laminar and turbulent Couette flow

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, October 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  24. Elliptical instability in a rotating spheroid

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  25. The Stuart–Landau model applied to wake transition revisited

    Article • European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, January 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  26. Elliptic and triangular instabilities in rotating cylinders

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, February 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Christophe Eloy, Dr Patrice Le Gal

  27. Ecoulements centripètes inter-disques avec prérotation - Efforts axiaux induits sur le disque tournant

    Article • La Houille Blanche, June 2001, EDP Sciences

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  28. Experimental Study of the Multipolar Vortex Instability

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Christophe Eloy, Dr Patrice Le Gal

  29. Experiments on the transition to turbulence of the flow between a stationary and a rotating disk

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  30. Modelling low order statistics of temperature increments in fully developed turbulence

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, July 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  31. Identification of parameters in amplitude equations describing coupled wakes

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, March 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  32. A numerical and theoretical study of the first Hopf bifurcation in a cylinder wake

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  33. Local analysis of the onset of instability in shear flows

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 1994, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  34. Complex demodulation applied to the transition to turbulence of the flow over a rotating disk

    Article • Physics of Fluids A Fluid Dynamics, November 1992, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Patrice Le Gal

  35. Experimental Observation of the Multipolar Instability Inside a Deformed Elastic Cylinder

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christophe Eloy, Dr Patrice Le Gal

  36. THE TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE OF THE TORSIONAL COUETTE FLOW

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrice Le Gal