Louis Gostiaux

Louis Gostiaux is a CNRS Research Fellow at the Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique (LMFA, Lyon --Villeurbanne) in the Écoulements Environnementaux team. His research activities focus on the dynamics of internal gravity waves and stratified turbulence, through in situ measurements and laboratory experiments. From 2008 to 2011, Louis Gostiaux worked on the Coriolis platform at the Laboratoire des écoulements géophysiques et industriels (LEGI) in Grenoble, the world's largest rotating platform dedicated to geophysical flows, recently rebuilt on the Université Grenoble Alpes campus. He also works in collaboration with several oceanography institutes, and has taken part in numerous measurement campaigns in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. At LMFA, he studies variable density flows in various environmental and industrial contexts: confluence between rivers of different densities, thermal discharges from power plants, instabilities at the interface between miscible fluids, dense gas discharges in the atmospheric boundary layer.

Louis Gostiaux was the holder of an ANR JCJC when he joined LMFA on fundamental aspects of stratifiée turbulence. He has been asked by CEA-DAM to carry out laboratory tests on instabilities linked to density gradients. He is taking part in the ANR HERCULES project (2023-2027) to build a physical model in similarity of the Strait of Gibraltar on LEGI's Coriolis platform in Grenoble.