This work focuses on three microhydrodynamics problems, in which one or several soft structures interact with a viscous fluid. These structures are flexible filaments, inspired from biological flagella. In each case, a quantitative experimental study is combined with a minimal theoretical model, in order to capture the main features of the physics involved. The first system is a macroscopic elastic filament, rotating in a viscous fluid. As the rotation frequency increases, the filament undergoes a continuous but sharp transition, from an almost straight state to a helical shape, tightly wrapped around the rotation axis. Depending on the anchoring conditions, this shape transition may be associated with an unstable branch in the force/torque...
The aim of this work is the development of predictive tools to account for the effect of particle si...
Complex wave systems can be classified in two categories, whatever the type of wave equation involve...
Soft matter scientists are dedicated to studying the properties of complex fluids. Complex fluids di...
Up to now, the effect of disorder on critical phenomena has been mainly studied theoretically. The m...
This research deals with collective dynamics of particles advected by low Reynolds flows in confined...
Lyapunov exponents are natural observables to quantify the chaoticity of a trajectory. They thus app...
This work is devoted to the derivation of models for complex fluids flows, to their theoretical anal...
Up to now, the effect of disorder on critical phenomena has been mainly studied theoretically. The m...
The aim of this work is to develop a coupling between two solversin order to study complex mechanica...
This thesis reveals two dissipative microscopic phenomena close to the contact line in the fields of...
The study of the mechanisms which influence the realization of molecular self-assemblies is central ...
The aim of this study is to improve the performances, in terms of memory space and computational tim...
Soft matter scientists are dedicated to studying the properties of complex fluids. Complex fluids di...
The context of this thesis is particle systems. We deal with different physical systems, described c...
This work is devoted to the description of both quantal and statistical aspects in a coherent theore...
The aim of this work is the development of predictive tools to account for the effect of particle si...
Complex wave systems can be classified in two categories, whatever the type of wave equation involve...
Soft matter scientists are dedicated to studying the properties of complex fluids. Complex fluids di...
Up to now, the effect of disorder on critical phenomena has been mainly studied theoretically. The m...
This research deals with collective dynamics of particles advected by low Reynolds flows in confined...
Lyapunov exponents are natural observables to quantify the chaoticity of a trajectory. They thus app...
This work is devoted to the derivation of models for complex fluids flows, to their theoretical anal...
Up to now, the effect of disorder on critical phenomena has been mainly studied theoretically. The m...
The aim of this work is to develop a coupling between two solversin order to study complex mechanica...
This thesis reveals two dissipative microscopic phenomena close to the contact line in the fields of...
The study of the mechanisms which influence the realization of molecular self-assemblies is central ...
The aim of this study is to improve the performances, in terms of memory space and computational tim...
Soft matter scientists are dedicated to studying the properties of complex fluids. Complex fluids di...
The context of this thesis is particle systems. We deal with different physical systems, described c...
This work is devoted to the description of both quantal and statistical aspects in a coherent theore...
The aim of this work is the development of predictive tools to account for the effect of particle si...
Complex wave systems can be classified in two categories, whatever the type of wave equation involve...
Soft matter scientists are dedicated to studying the properties of complex fluids. Complex fluids di...