Soutenance de Lucas Méthivier
Imaging turbulent convective flows, from Fluorocarbon to liquid helium
When |
Dec 14, 2022
from 02:00 to 04:00 |
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Where | Salle Condorcet (1 place de l'École) |
Contact Name | Lucas Méthivier |
Attendees |
Lucas Méthivier |
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My thesis deals with Rayleigh-Benard convection in liquid helium and at room temperature. Specifically, I performed heat transfer and optical measurements in a room temperature Rayleigh-Benard cell using water and a fluorocarbon. The use of different fluids allowed to vary the ranges of parameters and in particular to reach high Rayleigh numbers of the order of 1012. In a second step, I developed a similar cold experiment by designing a cryogenic Rayleigh-Benard cell, allowing to perform optical measurements of the same type.