Curriculum Vitae : Xavier FRANK - IATE

Curriculum Vitae : Xavier FRANK
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Current position
Researcher INRA, JRU IATE
Current position
Researcher INRA, JRU IATE
Past positions
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September 2007 – September 2011 :
Researcher INRA, JRU LERFOB, Nancy
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September 2000 – August 2007 : Teacher in
middle school and high school
Education
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September 1996 – August 2000 : Schooling in
Physics (Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan,
Orsay University)
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June 2000 : Research Master's degree in
Chemical Engineering (ENSIC, Nancy)
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November 2005 : PhD Thesis in Process
Engineering (Lorraine University, Nancy)
Research topics of interest
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Fracture of heterogeneous materials
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Granular materials
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Multiphase flows
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Wetting phenomena
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Viscoelastic fluids
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High performance computing
Other skills
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Numerical code developing (FORTRAN)
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Parallel coding (MPI)
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Computing on PC cluster
Participation in projects / programmes
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ANR ANALOGS Project 2009 - 2013
Teaching activities
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2015 : Modelling and numerical simulation
for agro-resources dry biorefinery, Master 2,
Montpellier University
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2015 : Applied mathematics and physics,
Master 2, Montpellier University
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2007 : Heat transfer, License 3, Brest
University
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2006 : Optics, License 2, Le Mans University
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2005 : Fluid Mechanics, License 1, Le Mans
University
2005 : Automatic control engineering, License
1, Le Mans University
2000-2007 : Physics and Chemistry, Middle
school and high school
Key Publications / Communications
 Frank X., Perré P. and Li H.Z., Lattice
Boltzmann investigation of droplet inertial
spreading on various porous surfaces,
Physical review E 91 (2015) 052405
 Perré P., Almeida G., Ayouz M. and Frank X.,
New modelling approaches to predict wood
properties from its cellular structure: imagebased representation and meshless methods,
Annals of Forest Science, in press (2015)
 Frank X., Dietrich N. and Li H.Z., A damping
phenomenon
in
viscoelastic
fluids,
Europhysics Letters 105 (2014) 54006
 Frank X. and Perré P., Droplet spreading
on a porous surface: A lattice Boltzmann
study, Physics of Fluids 24 (2012)
042101
 Frank X., Almeida G. and Perré P.,
Multiphase flow in the vascular system
of wood: from microscopic exploration
to 3-D Lattice Boltzmann experiments,
International Journal of Multiphase
Flow 36 (2010) 599-607
 Frank X. and Li H.Z., Route to chaos in
the rising dynamics of a bubble chain in
a polymeric fluid, Physics Letters A 372
(2008) 6155-6160
 Frank X., Fünfschilling D., Midoux N. and
Li H.Z., Bubbles in viscous liquid: Lattice
Boltzmann simulation and experimental
validation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
546 (2006) 113-122
Name: Frank Xavier
Nationality: French
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +33499612388
The Ingénierie des Agropolymères et Technologies Emergentes is a joint research centre of
INRA, CIRAD, University Montpellier II and SupAgro