After retiring from Cornell in 2022, Michel Louge has been helping industry exploit instrumentation that his group developed to measure instantaneously the local bulk density, moisture and/or solvent content in gas-solid suspensions, powders and grains. He also lends advice on drying, fluidization and other subject mentioned in this web site.
To explore how your industry can benefit from this work, contact Michel Louge by email at MYL3@cornell.edu
Visualize Michel Louge's presentation on the "Role of pore pressure gradients in geophysical flows over permeable substrates" at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara during the conference on Fluid-Mediated Particle Transport in Geophysical Flows on Wednesday, December 18, 2013. The first part of the presentation concerns powders snow avalanches. The second discusses the role of the porous sand bed in desert ripples.
Here are links to Michel Louge's webcast seminar, presentation and abstract at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences for the 2nd IMA conference on Dense Granular Flows on July 1, 2013.
Experiments, numerical simulations and modeling of powder snow avalanches, which we identify with "eruption currents". See this page for explanations, recent progress and journal articles.
The following article points to recent progress by Mitrano et al (2014) on the subject of granular clusters: M.Y. Louge: "The surprising relevance of a continuum description to granular clusters," J. Fluid Mech. 742, 1-4 (2014), doi:10.1017/jfm.2013.650.
In the summer 2014, Michel Louge spent time as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering working on deep-sea eruption currents with Dr. Barbara Turnbull at the University of Nottingham.
Education
- Ph.D., January 1985. Mechanical Engineering, High Temperature Gasdynamics Laboratory, Stanford University. Thesis title: "Shock Tube Study of Cyanide Species Kinetics and Spectroscopy". Thesis advisor: Ronald K. Hanson.
- M.S., June 1979. Mechanical
Engineering, Stanford
University.
- Ingénieur, June 1978. Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris.
Michel
LougeSibley School of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
351 Upson Hall
124 Hoy Road
Ithaca, NY 14853
MYL3@cornell.edu
for Michel Louge at Stanford.
Appointments
- Substitute Teacher, Ithaca City School District 2023-present
- Emeritus Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 2022-present
- Distinguished Professor at VinUniversity (Hanoi, Vietnam) 2020
- Visiting Professor at IUEM, IFREMER, and the Universite de Brest under the ISBlue program, June 2019
- campagne Bankable on underwater sand dunes of the Iroise Sea aboard the ship Cotes-de-la-Manche
- Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Fall 2017 and 2018
- Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, summer 2014
- invited by Dr. Barbara Turnbull, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham, UK
- Powder Flow consultant, International Fine Particle Research Institute 2003-2009 and 2015-present
- Professeur invité, Ecole Centrale de Paris 2012-2013
- Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell 1998-present
- Associate Director for Undergraduate Affairs, MAE,
Cornell
2003-2005; 2009
- Professeur, Condensed Matter Physics, Université de Rennes I 2005-2006
- Visiting
Professor, Université de Rennes
I
summers 1998 - 2011
- Director, Master of Engineering Program, MAE, Cornell
1999-2003
- Associate Professor, MAE, Cornell 1991-1998
- Associate Director of Graduate Research, MAE, Cornell
1993-1996
- Visiting Professor, Université de Provence 1991-1992
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University 1985-1991
- Process Development Engineer, Shell IPM, The Hague 1984-1985
- Associate Editor, Mechanics Research Communications 2007-present
- Associate Editor, J. Geophys. Res. - Earth Surface 2014-present
- Recipient of Cornell's Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, 2011.
- Faculty-in-Residence, Clara Dickson Hall 2007-2009
- Faculty-in-Residence, Townhouses Community 2009-2011
- Faculty Fellow, Balch Hall 2011-2012
Contact information
e-mail: MYL3@cornell.edu
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