Bailly Christophe

Christophe Bailly is professor of fluid mechanics and acoustics at École Centrale de Lyon in France, where he currently heads the Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics Laboratory (LMFA, UMR 5509). A graduate of Centrale Lyon (1990), he obtained his doctorate in aeroacoustics at École Centrale Paris (1994) and worked for a year at CNES. He was then Maître de conférences at École Centrale Paris (1995-2006) and École Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (2001-2020). A former member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2007), his research focuses on turbulence, aeroacoustics and sound propagation.

He is co-author, with Geneviève Comte-Bellot, of a textbook on turbulence (2nd edition in English), has published over 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has co-supervised over 30 theses. He has received the prix Yves Rocard de la Société Française d'Acoustique (1996), the prix Alexandre Joannidès de l'Académie des Sciences(Paris, 2001), the médaille de l'Académie de l'Air et de l'Espace (Toulouse, 2016), the CEAS Aeroacoustics Award(2020) and the médaille de la Société Française d'Acoustique (2023). He is currently associate editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and member of the editorial board of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion.

Research projects

• Canoble project of the EU's CleanSky2 programme
• Numerical simulation of an isothermal supersonic jet at Mach 2
• GENCI - Fluid mechanics: the noise of the launcher!
• Investigation of flow features around shallow round cavities subject to subsonic grazing flow
• Flight effects on screech in underexpanded jets
• Large eddy simulation of an overexpanded supersonic jet
• Underexpanded supersonic jet & broadband shock noise

More projects

Training activities

• Teaching at Centrale Lyon (General Engineering and International Master in Acoustic)
  • Physics of turbulent flows (3rd year Centrale Lyon and MSc)
  • Turbulence and stability
  • Order, chaos and fractals
  • Matlab tutorial - Signal processing
  • Fluid mechanics and energy
  • Fluid-structure interaction
• Teaching as part of CHEL'S
  • Decision, Complexity and Risk
  • Order and disorder