Emile Touber

Associate Professor

MSc (2005), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Diplôme d’Ingénieur (2006), Institut Supérieur de Mécanique de Paris, France
PhD (2010), University of Southampton, UK

France

emile.touber at oist.jp

Professional Experience

2009 – 2011: Research Associate, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, UK
2011 – 2012: Research Scientist, GE Global Research, Munich, Germany
2012 – 2018: Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
2019 – 2020: Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
2019 – 2020: Adjunct Associate Professor, OIST, Japan
2020 – : Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
2020 – : Associate Professor, OIST, Japan

Awards

Osborne Reynolds Colloquium and Research Student Award, 2011
Lecturer of the year, MechSoc Annual Awards, Imperial College London, 2018

Selected Publications

Touber E (2019) Small-scale turbulence shaped by bulk viscosity, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 875, pp. 974 – 1003
Touber E, Alferez N (2019) Shock-induced energy conversion of entropy in non-ideal fluids, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 864, pp. 807 – 847
Alferez N, Touber E (2017) One-dimensional refraction properties of compression shocks in non-ideal gases, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 814, pp. 185 – 221
Agostini L, Touber E, Leschziner MA (2014) Spanwise oscillatory wall motion in channel flow: drag-reduction mechanisms inferred from DNS-predicted phase-wise property variations at Re_tau = 1000, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 743, pp. 606 – 635
Blesbois O, Chernyshenko S, Touber E, Leschziner MA (2013) Pattern prediction by linear analysis of turbulent flow with drag reduction by wall oscillation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 724, pp. 607 – 641
Touber E, Leschziner MA (2012) Near-wall streak modification by spanwise oscillatory wall motion and drag-reduction mechanisms, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 693, pp. 150 – 200
Touber E, Sandham ND (2011) Low-order stochastic modelling of low-frequency motions in reflected shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 671, pp. 417 – 465
Touber E, Sandham ND (2009) Large-eddy simulation of low-frequency unsteadiness in turbulent shock-induced separation bubble, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, vol. 23, pp. 79 – 107