Violeau, Damien
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Violeau, Damien
Biography
Damien Violeau was born in 1971 and graduated in 1997 from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, the 4th highest engineering college in France. Since then, he has been working as a researcher at the Laboratoire National d’Hydraulique et Environnement of EDF R&D, where he was appointed Senior Scientist in 2013. He is also involved in the Laboratoire d’Hydraulique Saint-Venant of the Paris-Est University. His main activities are the development of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) numerical method and the design of coastal waterworks, with an additional contribution to turbulent processes.
http://www.saint-venant-lab.fr/saint-venant
Damien Violeau has taken an active part in the development of the SPH method since 1999. He first acted by improving the knowledge and theory of this method, with personal contributions illustrated by a numerical code that he has been developing with a small team of young scientists and PhD fellows. In particular, he was the first to publish specific turbulent models for SPH as early as 2001, and rapidly proposed applications to real-life modeling of hydraulic problems. He also conducted research on incompressible models and numerical stability. He compiled his work on SPH and its application to waterworks in the second part of a 600+ page book published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in 2012 (Fluid Mechanics and the SPH method).
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199655526.do
Damien Violeau has also been very active in the promotion of SPH all around the World, fostering the international cooperation on that emerging topic by creating the SPHERIC community (SPH European Research Interest Community) in 2005, which he chaired until 2010. This association now gathers about 70 member institutes and organizes an annual conference with about 100 delegates, high quality paper proceedings and a training day for students and newcomers.
https://wiki.manchester.ac.uk/spheric/index.php/SPHERIC_Home_Page
Other scientific work – Publications
Damien Violeau has also conducted works on water waves interactions with coastal structures (wave runup and overtopping, through theoretical and experimental works) and the theory of turbulence in the environment. Besides his activity in theoretical and applied research, he served as an engineer for EDF’s needs in hydrodynamics of fluvial and maritime waterworks, participating to or managing several projects on climate change, oil spills, flooding processes, etc. and writing more than 50 scientific reports. He has been member of several European projects and is registered as expert scientist within the framework of the FP7 European program. He published 2 books, 2 book chapters, 26 journal papers (among which Physical Review E, Physics of Fluids, the JCP, etc.) and ca. 50 congress papers. He also reviewed many papers for high quality journals such as JCP, Physics of Fluids, JFM, Int. J. Num. Meth. Fluids, JHR (see below) and others. Among his journal papers, one was cited 160 times, another one 130 times.
Teaching and supervising
Damien Violeau has also developed a long and fruitful teaching experience, as lecturer in several engineering colleges in France, in particular Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, where he has been teaching Fluid Mechanics since 1998. Together with his colleagues, he published a book of exercises in Fluid Mechanics (in French), including real-life engineering problems. He has also taken part to many summer schools and short courses, in particular at the University of Manchester (UK) as yearly invited lecturer since 2010. His taste for teaching early drove him to supervise MSc students (more than 20 so far), PhD, MPhil and Post-doctoral fellows (13). Three of his former PhD students won international prizes. D. Violeau was also 8 times member in a PhD defence jury. He received in 2009 the grade of ‘Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches’ (Ability to Drive Research), a French degree allowing PhD supervising and reporting, among others.
http://www.enpc.fr/english/int_index.htm
Scientific groups
Damien Violeau has taken an active part in scientific associations. Besides SPHERIC (mentioned above), he was introduced to IAHR (International Association for Hydro-environment engineering and Research) in 2003, first as a member of the Hydroinformatics Section, then as a member of the Maritime Section (now Committee on Coastal and Maritime Hydraulics) where he was secretary from 2006 to 2007. He is also former member of ERCOFTAC and active member of the French Hydro Society (SHF), where he manages the Maritime Hydraulic Section (he organized 6 colloquiums since 2005) and is member of the Editing Board of the French journal La Houille Blanche.
http://www.shf-hydro.org/
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