Director of research at the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission of France (CEA).
Affiliation:
Magnetic gravity compensation
Evaporation condensation-induced bubble motion after temperature gradient set-up,
Nikolayev, V. S., Garrabos, Y., Lecoutre, C., Pichavant, G., Chatain, D. & Beysens, D., C. R. Mécanique , 2017 vol. 345 (1), 35 – 46.
Boiling Crisis Dynamics: Low Gravity Experiments at High Pressure, Nikolayev, V., Garrabos, Y., Lecoutre, C., Charignon, T., Hitz, D., Chatain, D., Guillaument, R., Marre, S. & Beysens, D. Microgravity Sci. Technol. , 2015 vol. 27 (4), 253 – 260.
Criticality in the slowed-down boiling crisis at zero gravity,
Charignon, T., Lloveras, P., Chatain, D., Truskinovsky, L., Vives, E., Beysens, D. & Nikolayev, V. S. Phys. Rev. E, 2015 vol. 91, 053007.
Boiling crisis dynamics: low gravity experiments and modeling,
Nikolayev, V., Garrabos, Y., Lecoutre, C., Hitz, D., Chatain, D., Guillaument, R., Janeček, V. & Beysens, D. Proc. 8th Eu. Conf. on Aerothermodynamics for Space Vehicles, ESA, 2015.
Quench cooling under reduced gravity,
Chatain, D., Mariette, C., Nikolayev, V. S. & Beysens, D. Phys. Rev. E , 2013 vol. 88, 013004.
Magnetic gravity compensation in fluids,
Nikolayev, V.S. ELGRA News, ISSN 2219-5602, No 7, p. 8-9, December 2010.
Magnetic Gravity Compensation,
Nikolayev, V., Chatain, D., Beysens, D. & Pichavant, G. Microgravity Sci. Technol. 2011 Vol. 23 (2), pp. 113 – 122.
Magnetic Compensation of Gravity: Experiments with Oxygen,
Pichavant, G., Cariteau, B., Chatain, D., Nikolayev, V. & Beysens, D. Microgravity Sci. Techn., 2009 Vol. 21 (1), pp. 129 – 133
Study of fluid behaviour under gravity compensated by a magnetic field,
Chatain, D., Beysens, D., Madet, K., Nikolayev, V., Mailfert, A. Microgravity Science and Technology 18(3/4), 196 – 199 (2006).
Magnetic facility gives heat transfer data in H2 at various acceleration levels,
Beysens, D., Chatain, D., Nikolayev, V.S., Garrabos, Y., paper 148, 4th Int. Conf. on Launcher Technology “Space Launcher Liquid Propulsion”, 3-6/12/2002, Liege, Belgium, published as a CD-ROM, CNES, Toulouse (2002).
Using magnetic levitation to produce cryogenic targets for inertial fusion energy: experiment and theory,
Chatain, D., Nikolayev, V.S. Cryogenics 42(3-4), 253 – 261 (2002).