Position Senior scientist (directeur de recherche) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Research institute Research Laboratory in Hydrodynamics, Energetics & Atmospheric Environment (LHEEA) Research group Urban and Coastal Atmospheric Dynamics (DAUC) Team
BAckground BAckground 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 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
