Amélie Ferran
About
My research focus has been on the experimental study of two-phase turbulent flows.
During my PhD at the University of Grenoble Alpes (UGA), I have primarily focused on the dynamics of inertial particles injected into different turbulent environments. I have worked on the settling of water droplets within homogeneous and isotropic turbulent airflows and the entrainment of inertial particles within turbulent interfaces.
More recently, I have joined the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway to work on wave-turbulence-current interactions at gas-liquid interface with Simen Ellingsen and Jason Hearst.
Research
Turbulent flows, free surface turbulence, wave-turbulence-current interactions, gas-liquid interface, experimental study, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV).
WaTurShed
GLITR
Publications
- An experimental study on the settling velocity of inertial particles in different homogeneous isotropic turbulent flows. Ferran, A., Machicoane, N., Aliseda, A., & Obligado, M. (2023). Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
- Characterising the energy cascade using the zero-crossings of the longitudinal velocity fluctuations. Ferran, A., Aliseda, A., & Obligado, M. (2023). Experiments in Fluids.
- Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers. Johnson, K., Arroyos, V., Ferran, A., Villanueva, R., Yin, D., Elberier, T., Aliseda, A., Fuller, S., Iyer, V., & Gollakota, S. (2023). Science Robotics.
- Characterising single and two-phase homogeneous isotropic turbulence with stagnation points. Ferran, A., Angriman, S., Mininni, P. D., & Obligado, M. (2022). Dynamics, 2(2), 63-72.
- Clustering in laboratory and numerical turbulent swirling flows. Angriman, S., Ferran, A., Zapata, F., Cobelli, P. J., Obligado, M., & Mininni, P. D. (2022).Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 948, A30.
Outreach
2025
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Academic lectureFerran, Amelie Mia Helene; Rømcke, Olav; Gautam, Priyanka; Hearst, R. Jason; Ellingsen, Simen Ådnøy. (2025) Experiment on Eulerian and Lagrangian mean flow in water waves with turbulence. International Conference on Multiphase Flow , Toulouse 2025-05-11 - 2025-05-14
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Academic lectureFerran, Amelie Mia Helene; Semati, Ali; Rouaud, Anaïs; Hearst, R. Jason; Ellingsen, Simen Ådnøy. (2025) Correlation between near-surface turbulence and the free surface. European Fluid Dynamics Conference - EFDC2 , Dublin 2025-08-23 - 2025-08-28
2024
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PosterFerran, Amelie Mia Helene; Rømcke, Olav; Gautam, Priyanka; Hearst, Robert Jason; Ellingsen, Simen Andreas Ådnøy. (2024) Experiment on Eulerian and Lagrangian motion in waves and turbulence. Wind Waves in the Earth System , Cargèse, Corsica 2024-04-22 - 2024-04-26