Curriculum vitae
Personal Information
Bérengère Dubrulle
(b. 07/26/1965 in Dieppe, France).
Senior researcher at
CNRS, SPHYNX Laboratory, SPEC, CEA Saclay, France.
Web: http://iramis.cea.fr/Pisp/berengere.dubrulle/
Personal information: 4
children (27, 26, 24 and 22 years)
Academic & Positions
1985-1989: Student at the Ecole Normale
Supérieure de Jeunes Filles, Paris
1986-1987: M. Sc (DEA) in Quantum Mechanics (Paris VI
University, France)
1987-1988: Visiting scholar at Radio Astronomy
Laboratory (University of California, Berkeley)
1988-1990 Ph. D in Astrophysics with highest honours (Toulouse University, France)
Advisor:
J-P. Zahn
1991: Post-doc
at Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan.
1991-2000: CNRS
Junior Scientist
1996: Habilitation
à Diriger des Recherches in Physics (Paris VII University, France)
1998-1999: Visiting scientist in MMM division of NCAR,
Boulder, Colorado
2000-Today: CNRS Senior
Scientist (Exceptional class since October 2021)
Fellowships and Awards
1987: Georges
Lurcy Fellowship
1987 & 1988:
Amelia Earhart Fellowship
1993: CNRS
Bronze Medal
2007: Pauli
Fellow
2008: Victor
Noury Prize from the French Academy of Science
2009-Today: Award (PES)
for Outstanding Research of CNRS (renewed in 2013 and 2017)
2017: CNRS
Silver Medal
2021: Lewis
Fry Richardson Medal from the European Geophysical Union
Scientific profile
I received my PhD in
astrophysics in 1990, after having worked on “Instabilities, turbulence and
transport in accretion disks” with J-P. Zahn and U. Frisch. During my PhD and
the following years, I worked on a new
scenario to explain to explain the formation of solar system, based on
hydrodynamical turbulence. Using data from laboratory flows, and chemical
observations from space missions, I showed that the turbulence generated by
nonlinear shear instabilities could produce giant vortices favouring
grains condensation and planetesimal growth. This hypothesis is now the basis
of many solar system scenarios.
In 1994, I started to
work on explanation of turbulence
intermittency. I explored scenarii based on
log-Poisson statistics, finite size scale invariance, and non-locality of
interactions.
In 2001, I joined the
VKS team, to work on theoretical and
experimental explanation of cosmic magnetic fields through turbulent dynamos.
I participated in data campaigns and analysis of the Sodium experiment, and
devised a Galerkin method to obtain 3D reconstruction
of the magnetic field from sparse measurements. I supervised several post-doc
and students to explore the influence of noise on the dynamo instability and
show that it has an impeding influence. I also proposed to explain why dynamo
in VKS has only been observed with ferro-magnetic disks via enhancement of the
alpha effect mechanism by magnetic field collimation of shedding vortices.
In 2005, I started to
work on modelling of the large-scale
structures of geophysical and astrophysical flows. I adapted the
statistical framework of Robert and Sommeria, built
for 2D flows to cases with axisymmetry (2D1/2). My
theory successfully reproduces features of the mean flow and its bifurcations
observed in the von Karman experiment in Saclay. I
further supervised 2 PhDs to interpret the turbulent bifurcation in terms of
phase transition, analog to the ferro-paramagnetic transition. Since 2009, I
applied these concepts in climate modelling, and work on the application and
explanation of a min-max entropy production principle for prediction of
temperature distribution at the Earth surface.
In 2009, I started
collaborating with experimentalists in Grenoble and Lyon to study quantum turbulence. I proposed to
build a von Karman experiment filled with Helium4 below and above the lambda
point to study turbulence and dissipation processes in classical and quantum
flow. The experiment was built in 2011 (SHREK experiment). I have participated
to several experimental campaigns, and in data analysis. I have supervised
several PhDs and post-docs in Saclay to conduct
experiments in water on a scale 1:4 version of SHREK, for calibration and
interpretation of the data.
Since 2015, I launched a new area
of research, attempting to detect Holder singularities of Navier-Stokes
equation in a laboratory turbulent flow by following in scale the extreme
events inertial dissipation. We found that they
correspond to non-trivial velocity topologies associated with possible
footprints of singularities. A striking result of our exploration is the
existence of localized significant non-viscous energy transfers even at the
Kolmogorov scale. These transfers are taken into account neither by classical
Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) (usually
cut above or at the Kolmogorov scale), nor by
traditional turbulence models (following K41 phenomenology). Understanding
these sub-Kolmogorov transfers and building a new turbulent model compatible is
now my main objective. I have written an invited review paper entitled Beyond Kolmogorov cascades (JFM Perspectives, 2019) on this subject.
This work has been
conducted in collaboration with theoreticians, numericians
and experimentalists. Formation of solar system: D. Gautier, F. Hersant; Statistical
Mechanics of Turbulence: F. Bouchet , P-H. Chavanis; Dynamo Effect: J-F. Pinton, N. Plihon, Ph. Odier, S. Fauve, F. Pétrélis, F. Daviaud, B. Gallet,
S. Aumaitre, F. Ravelet
(VKS Collaboration), S. Brun, C. Nore. Quantum Turbulence: B. Castaing, L. Chevillard, F. Chilla,
B. Rousset, A. Girard, P. Diribarne, Ph. Roche, M. Gibert, F. Daviaud, A. Braslau, B. Gallet, I. Moukharsky (SHREK
Collaboration). Wave Turbulence and Intermittency: S. Nazarenko, J-P. Laval. Climate: D. Paillard.
I have organized or
co-organized 12 international workshops and conferences since 1993.
Research record
I have published over
160 peer-reviewed papers since 1987; my h-index is 47 (total citations: 8278; lead
author of 38 papers, source: Google Scholar 29/05/22. I have published 1 Nature
Communication and 15 PRL.
Community activities
I have been head of the French
National Research Group (GDR) on Dynamo, and elected member
of the National Committee of CNRS (Theoretical Physics division). I am
presently member of the European Turbulence Committee of
the European Mechanics Society and of the Conseil
Scientifique de l’Observatoire
Côte d’Azur.
I have been member of the National Committee for Planetology, of the Committee for
Non-Linear Sciences, of
the Committee Women in Sciences of the French Physical Society and of the French Committee for High Performance Computing.
I am member of the National Committee for Mechanics, of the Committee for
Non-Linear Physics of the French Physical Society and of in Administrative
Council of the French Physical Society
I am Divisional Associate Editor (section Fluid) at PRL since 2019.
I am Editor in Chief of Journal of
Fluid Mechanics Perspectives since
2022.
I am Director of Les Houches
School of Physics since 2021.
I lead a research group on turbulence at SPEC since 2007 about statistical
modelling of turbulence. Its members are theoreticians and experimentalists.
I regularly work as reviewers for journals like PRL, Physics of Fluids,
Physical Review E, Physical Review Fluids, J. Fluid Mech., NJP, Physica D.
I have supervised 12 postdocs and 20 PhD students. 22 of them have now
permanent positions (6 are still finishing his PhD). 9 of them have CNRS or CEA
permanent positions, 2 are assistant professors in engineering school (ENSTA), 7
are professors or assistant professors in Universities (China, Paris, Grenoble,Nice), 4 are in R&D
departments of industrial groups, 1 is analyst at British Petroleum, 1
professor in preparatory school, 1 high-school teacher.
Scientific Outreach
I am co-author of a
scientific book for children explaining climate physics: B. Dubrulle and V. Masson, Le Climat :
de nos ancêtres à vos enfants, Collection Minipommes,
Editions Le Pommier, 2005. During the last
fifteen years, I made a hundred of talks in classes, sciences and book
festivals, radio, TV to explain dynamo, turbulence and climate to general
audience, including children age 8 to 14.
Featured Publications
(out of 155 publications, 3 344 citations without
auto citations, and h=33 over the track-record source: ISI Web of Science
29/01/18).
New scenario for solar system
[1] B. Dubrulle, Differential Rotation as a source of angular
momentum transfer in the solar nebula, (1993) Icarus 106 59-76.
[2] B. Dubrulle, L. Marie, Ch. Normand, F. Hersant, D.
Richard and J-P. Zahn, An hydrodynamic shear instability in stratified disks,
(2005) Astron. Astroph. 429 1-13. Suggests that the combination of shear plus
stratification may be a source of turbulence in the solar nebula.
[3] B. Dubrulle, O. Dauchot, P-Y. Longaretti, F. Daviaud, F. Hersant, D. Richard and J-P. Zahn, Stability and transport
in Taylor-Couette flow from analysis of experimental
data, (2005) Phys. Fluids 17 095103. Derives a parameter free prescription for
angular momentum transport in disks from analysis of experimental measurements.
Intermittency
[4] B. Dubrulle, Intermittency in fully developed turbulence:
Log-Poisson statistics and generalized scale-covariance, (1994) Phys. Rev. Letters 73, 959-963.
[5] A. Arnéodo, C. Baudet,
F. Belin, R. Benzi, B. Castaing,
B. Chabaud, R. Chavarria, S. Ciliberto,
R. Camussi, F. Chilla, B. Dubrulle,
Y. Gagne, B. Hébral, J. Herweijer,
M. Marchand, J. Maurer, J-F. Muzy, A. Naert, A. Noullez, J. Peinke, F. Roux, P. Tabeling, W.
Van de Water, H. Willaime, Structure functions in
turbulence, in various flow configurations, at
Reynolds number between 30 and 5000, using extended self-similarity, Europhys. Letter 34
(1996) 411.
[6] J-P. Laval, B. Dubrulle
and S. Nazarenko, Non-locality and Intermittency in
3D Turbulence (2001) Phys. Fluid, 13 1995-2012. An explanation of intermittency based on non-locality of energy
transfers.
[7] E.-W. Saw, P. Debue, D. Kuzzay,
F. Daviaud, B. Dubrulle.
On the universality of anomalous scaling exponents of structure functions in
turbulent flows J. Fluid Mech., 837 (2018).
Dynamo
[8] R. Monchaux,
M. Berhanu, M. Bourgoin, M. Moulin, Ph. Odier, J.-F. Pinton, R. Volk, S. Fauve, N.
Mordant, F. Pétrélis, A. Chiffaudel, F. Daviaud, B. Dubrulle, C. Gasquet, L. Marié, and F. Ravelet
Generation of a magnetic field by dynamo action in a turbulent flow of
liquid sodium (2007) Phys. Rev. Letters 998 044502 The first experimental evidence of dynamo action in an unconstrained
turbulent swirling flow. I participated in data analysis and interpretation.
[9] J-P. Laval, P. Blaineau, N. Leprovost,
B. Dubrulle
and F. Daviaud, Influence of turbulence on the dynamo
threshold, (2006) Phys. Rev. Letters, 96 204503. This work shows that the turbulence has an impeding action on the
dynamo threshold.
[10] F. Ravelet, B. Dubrulle,
F. Daviaud, P.
Ratie, Kinematic alpha Tensors and Dynamo Mechanisms
in a von Karman Swirling Flow, (2012) Phys.
Rev. Letters, 109,
024503. Computes the efficiency of
the alpha mechanism due to vortices shredded by blades.
[11] J. Varela, S. Brun, B. Dubrulle, C. Nore,
Role of boundary conditions in helicoidal flow collimation: Consequences for
the von Karman sodium dynamo experiment,
(2015) Phys. Rev. E, 92, 063015. This work
suggests a new mechanism for the VKS dynamo, where the magnetic field near the
blades plays a collimation role on vortices responsible for the alpha-mechanism..
Statistical modelling of large scale
structures
[12] R. Monchaux, F. Ravelet, B. Dubrulle, A. Chiffaudel and
F. Daviaud, Properties of stationary states in
axisymmetric flows, (2006)
Phys. Rev. Letters 96 124502 (36 citations). Fist experimental observation of prediction of my statistical theories.
[13] P.-P.
Cortet, A. Chiffaudel, F. Daviaud and B. Dubrulle, Experimental evidence of a phase
transition in a closed turbulent flow, (2010) Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 214501. Interpretation of a turbulent bifurcation in
term of phase transition.
[14] S. Thalabard, B.
Saint-Michel, E. Herbert, F. Daviaud, B. Dubrulle,
A statistical mechanics framework for the large-scale structure of turbulent
von Karman flows, (2015) NJP,17, 063006. A complete
description of the statistical framework to describe large scale structures of
a von Karman flow.
[15] M. Mihelich, D. Faranda, D. Paillard, B. Dubrulle, Is
Turbulence a State of Maximum Energy Dissipation ?,
Entropy 19 (4), 154 (2017). Explores the
role of energy dissipation for stationary states.
Quantum turbulence
[16] J.
Salort, C. Baudet, B. Castaing, B.Chabaud,
F. Daviaud, T. Didelot, P. Diribarne, B. Dubrulle, Y. Gagne, F. Gauthier, A. Girard, B. Hebral, B. Rousset, P. Thibault
and P-E. Roche, Turbulent velocity
spectra in superfluid flows, (2010) Phys. of Fluids 22 125102.
[17] B. Saint-Michel, E. Herbert, J. Salort,
C. Baudet, M. Bon Mardion,
P. Bonnay, M. Bourgoin, B. Castaing, L. Chevillard, F. Daviaud, P. Diribarne, B. Dubrulle,
Y. Gagne, M. Gibert, A. Girard, B. Hébral, Th. Lehner, B. Rousset,
Probing quantum and classical turbulence analogy through global bifurcations in
a von Karman
liquid Helium experiment, Phys. Fluids 26 (2014) 125109 (1 citations). Proof that dissipation anomaly does not
change when going from normal fluid (including Saclay
water experiment) to superfluid.
Singularities and Inertial dissipation:
[18] E-W. Saw, D. Kuzzay, D.
Faranda, A. Guittonneau, F.
Daviaud, C. Wiertel-Gasquet,
V. Padilla, B. Dubrulle, Experimental characterization of extreme events of
inertial dissipation in a turbulent swirling flow Nature Comm. (2016). This work, performed under my supervision,
is the first preliminary attempt to
detect possible singularities of turbulence by following through scale the
extreme events of inertial dissipation.
[19] D. Kuzzay, E.-W. Saw,
J. W. A. Martins, D. Faranda, J.-M. Foucaut, F. Daviaud, B. Dubrulle
New criteria to detect singularities in experimental incompressible flows,
Nonlinearity (6) 2381 (2017). Suggests to
use the inertial dissipation as a tool to detect singularities or
quasi-singularities.
[20] B. Dubrulle, Beyond Kolmogorov cascades, JFM Perspectives
(2019). Provides a modern picture of
energy transfers in turbulence, connecting quasi-singularities and intermittency
through weak formulation of Leray-Duchon-Robert
and suggests several prospects associated with this new picture.
Climate Modelling:
[21] C. Herbert, D. Paillard, B. Dubrulle, Vertical Temperature Profiles at Maximum
Entropy Production with a Net Exchange Radiative Formulation, (2013) J. Climate 26, 8545-8555. ).
Uses principle of entropy maximum to characterize vertical temperature
distribution in climate. This work is an improvement of the Paltridge’s
work.
[22] C. Herbert
, D. Paillard, M. Kageyama,
and B. Dubrulle
Present and last glacial climates as states of maximum entropy
production", Quart. J. of the Roy. Met. Soc. 137
1059-1069 (2011). ). Uses principle of entropy maximum to characterize
equilibrium states in climate.
[23] C. Herbert,, D. Paillard, and B. Dubrulle , Entropy production and multiple equilibria,
Earth. Sys. Dyn. 2 13-23
(2011). Uses principle of entropy maximum
to characterize multiple equilibrium states in climate.