Michael BERHANU

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Physicist in fluid mechanics and non-linear physics.


I am an experimentalist interested by fundamental considerations in non-linear physics and out of equilibrium systems.
Since October 2010 I joined the laboratory MSC (Matter and Complex Systems).

Chargé de recherche au CNRS.

Laboratory "Matter & Complex Systems"  (MSC lab)

University Paris Diderot / Université de Paris 

michael.berhanu_at_univ-paris-diderot.fr

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News, available M2 Internship: Erosion by dissolution, experiments and modelling.

Current research interests:

● Hydrodynamics of erosion by dissolution. Application to geomorphology.
In collaboration with Julien Derr, Sylvain Courrech du Pont, Adrien Guérin, Caroline Cohen (Ladhyx), Julien Philippi (TIPS,ULB).

● Wave Turbulence. Gravity-capillary surface waves. Wave-interactions
In collaboration with Eric Falcon.

Member of collaboration Turbulon (ECN Nantes, LPENS, CEA Saclay): Félicien Bonnefoy, Sébastien Aumaître, Guillaume Michel, ... 

Collaboration about Capillary waves experiments in the international Space Station with Stéphan Fauve (LPENS), Christophe Gissinger (LPENS),
Guillaume Michel (IJLRDA) and Eric Falcon (MSC),

● Surface waves generation by an underwater moving bottom.
With Timothée Jamin, Leonardo Gordillo (USACH, Chile), Gerardo Ruiz Chavarria (UNAM Mexico) and Eric Falcon.

● Turbulence and free surface flows. Interaction between surface waves and flows.
With Timothée Jamin and Eric Falcon.

● Granular gas of magnetized particles
With Simon Merminod and Eric Falcon.

● Capillarity and aggregation of floating particles.

I worked also on Granular materials, Geomorphology (seepage erosion), Turbulence and Magnetohydrodynamics.

Press items and outreach:
● Physics, American Physical Society. Experiments Duplicate Mysterious Rock Patterns 
● CNRS, INSIS. Des vagues turbulentes à bord de l'ISS.

● Festival Pint of Science. Des vagues en apesanteur.  (Video between the 24 and 40 minutes)

Previous positions:

Past event: Organization of conference:
Nonlinear hydrodynamic waves: Wave interaction and wave turbulence, Paris, 19-20 September 2013
(PFD files are available for some presentations)

Address

Building Condorcet
MSC - Box 7056
10 rue A. Domon & L. Duquet,
75205 Paris Cedex 13, France

Group: Dynamics of out-of-equilibrium systems

Desk: room 708A, 7th floor, MSC, Building Condorcet

Lab.: room 580A, 5th floor, MSC, Building Condorcet

Phone: (33 1)  57 27 70 44  Office         (33 1) 57 27 61 62  Lab