Emile Touber

Emile Touber portrait in black-and-white
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