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).