Director of research at the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission of France (CEA).
Affiliation:
Near-critical/supercritical fluids
Nikolayev, V. S., Garrabos, Y., Lecoutre, C., Pichavant, G., Chatain, D. & Beysens, D. Evaporation condensation-induced bubble motion after temperature gradient set-up, C. R. Mécanique, 2017 vol. 345 (1), 35 – 46.
Nikolayev, V., Garrabos, Y., Lecoutre, C., Charignon, T., Hitz, D., Chatain, D., Guillaument, R., Marre, S. & Beysens, D. Boiling Crisis Dynamics: Low Gravity Experiments at High Pressure, Microgravity Sci. Technol., 2015 vol. 27 (4), 253 – 260.
Charignon, T., Lloveras, P., Chatain, D., Truskinovsky, L., Vives, E., Beysens, D. & Nikolayev, V. S. Criticality in the slowed-down boiling crisis at zero gravity, Phys. Rev. E, 2015 vol. 91, 053007.
Nikolayev, V., Garrabos, Y., Lecoutre, C., Hitz, D., Chatain, D., Guillaument, R., Janeček, V. & Beysens, D. Boiling crisis dynamics: low gravity experiments and modeling, Proc. 8th Eu. Conf. on Aerothermodynamics for Space Vehicles, ESA, 2015. (cf. presentation here)
Lecoutre, C., Garrabos, Y., Beysens, D., Nikolayev, V. & Hahn, I., Boiling phenomena in near-critical SF6 observed in weightlessness, Acta Astronautica, 2014 vol. 100, 22 – 29.
Beysens, D., Chatain, D., Nikolayev, V.S., Ouazzani, J. & Garrabos, Y. Possibility of long-distance heat transport in weightlessness using supercritical fluids, Phys. Rev. E, 2010 Vol. 82 (6), 061126.
Garrabos, Y., Lecoutre, C., Beysens, D., Nikolayev, V., Barde, S., Pont, G. & Zappoli, B., Transparent heater for study of the boiling crisis near the vapor-liquid critical point, Acta Astronautica, 2010 Vol. 66 (5-6), pp. 760 – 768
Nikolayev, V.S., Dejoan, A., Garrabos, Y. & Beysens, D. Fast heat transfer calculations in supercritical fluids versus hydrodynamic approach, Phys. Rev. E, 2003 Vol. 67 (6), 061202.
Garrabos, Y., Dejoan, A., Lecoutre, C., Beysens, D., Nikolayev, V., Wunenburger, R., Piston effect in a supercritical fluid sample cell : a phenomenological approach of the mechanisms, Journal de Physique IV (France) 2001 Vol. 11(Pr6) 23.