Position
- Senior scientist (directeur de recherche) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Carlo COSSU
Contact
- Email :
- Carlo.Cossu4ef58cc7-9c0a-4f27-915a-babf96873dd6@EC-Nantes.fr
Research institute
Research Laboratory in Hydrodynamics, Energetics & Atmospheric Environment (LHEEA)
Research group
Urban and Coastal Atmospheric Dynamics (DAUC) Team
Research
Fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flows, flow control, wind energy.- BAckground
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Education
PhD Università La Sapienza (Roma), 1997
Habilitation à diriger les recherches (HDR) Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris), 2006
Experience
1999-2009: Chargé de recherche (junior scientist) CNRS, LadHyX, École polytechnique
2005-2017: Professeur chargé de cours (adjunct professor), Département de Mécanique, École polytechnique
2007, 2008: Overseas Fellow Churchill College University of Cambridge
2009-2017: Directeur de recherche (senior scientist) CNRS, IMFT (Toulouse)
depuis 2017: Directeur de recherche CNRS, LHEEA.
Publications:
Complete list: ORCID, Scopus, Researcher ID (Publons), ResearchGate
Selected publications:- C. Cossu. Wake redirection at higher axial induction. Wind En. Sci. 6:377-388. 2021.
- C. Cossu. Replacing wakes with streaks in wind turbine arrays. Wind En. 24:345-356, 2020.
- P. Morra, O. Semeraro, D.S. Henningson & C. Cossu. On the relevance of Reynolds stresses in resolvent analyses of turbulent wall-bounded flows. J. Fluid Mech. 867:969-984, 2019.
- C. Cossu & Y. Hwang. Self-sustaining processes at all scales in wall-bounded turbulent shear flows. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. 375:20160088, 2017.
- Y. Hwang & C. Cossu. On a self-sustained process al large scale in the turbulent channel flow. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105:044505, 2010
- J.H.M. Fransson, A. Talamelli, L. Brandt & C. Cossu. Delaying transition to turbulence by a passive mechanism. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96:064501, 2006.
- C. Cossu & J.-M. Chomaz. Global measures of local convective instabilities. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78:4387–4389, 1997.
- Teaching activities
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Teaching activities
- 2018-2025 : Introduction to hydrodynamic stability, cours doctoral École Centrale de Nantes & Université Bretagne-Loire
- 2012-2017 : Instabilities and Turbulence, École polytechnique (Palaiseau, France)
- 2013 : Stability of Fluid Flows, Advanced Winter School :The Future of Plasma Astrophysics, École de Physique des Houches.
- 2009, 2013 : An introduction to optimal control. FLOW-Ercoftac Summer School in flow Control and Optimization (2009) & FLOW-NORDITA Summer School on Advanced Instability Methods for Complex Flows (2013). Linné flow Center (FLOW) et Nordic Center for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA), Stockholm, Suède.
- Publications
- Publications