Markov chain analysis of weekly rainfall data in determining drought-proneness.
Mathematical and numerical analysis of a stratigraphic model
In this paper, we consider a multi-lithology diffusion model used in stratigraphic modelling to simulate large scale transport processes of sediments described as a mixture of lithologies. This model is a simplified one for which the surficial fluxes are proportional to the slope of the topography and to a lithology fraction with unitary diffusion coefficients. The main unknowns of the system are the sediment thickness , the surface concentrations in lithology of the sediments at the top...
Mathematical and numerical analysis of a stratigraphic model
In this paper, we consider a multi-lithology diffusion model used in stratigraphic modelling to simulate large scale transport processes of sediments described as a mixture of L lithologies. This model is a simplified one for which the surficial fluxes are proportional to the slope of the topography and to a lithology fraction with unitary diffusion coefficients. The main unknowns of the system are the sediment thickness h, the L surface concentrations in lithology i of the sediments at the...
Mathematical foundation of flow of glaciers and large ice masses
Mathematical Modeling of Atmospheric Flow and Computation of Convex Envelopes
Atmospheric flow equations govern the time evolution of chemical concentrations in the atmosphere. When considering gas and particle phases, the underlying partial differential equations involve advection and diffusion operators, coagulation effects, and evaporation and condensation phenomena between the aerosol particles and the gas phase. Operator splitting techniques are generally used in global air quality models. When considering organic aerosol...
Mathematical problems in geophysical wave propagation.
Mathematical simulation of ground vibrations taking into account nonlinear properties under intensive influences.
Méthode de décomposition de domaine et de couplage pour des problèmes d'évolution
Microlocal analysis and seismic imaging
We study certain Fourier integral operators arising in the inversion of data from reflection seismology.
Microscale Complexity in the Ocean: Turbulence, Intermittency and Plankton Life
This contribution reviews the nonlinear stochastic properties of turbulent velocity and passive scalar intermittent fluctuations in Eulerian and Lagrangian turbulence. These properties are illustrated with original data sets of (i) velocity fluctuations collected in the field and in the laboratory, and (ii) temperature, salinity and in vivo fluorescence (a proxy of phytoplankton biomass, i.e. unicelled vegetals passively advected by turbulence) sampled from highly turbulent coastal waters. The strength...
Modèles intermédiaires de dynamique océanique
Modèles stratifiés en mécanique des fluides géophysiques
Modeling and forecasting the peak flows of a river.
Modélisation numérique pour l'océanographie physique
Modélisation statistique de la température de surface de la mer
Modelling geophysical flows in the equatorial zone
We present here a series of works which aims at describing geophysical flows in the equatorial zone, taking into account the dominating influence of the earth rotation. We actually proceed by successive approximations computing for each model the response of the fluid to the strong Coriolis penalisation. The main difficulty is due to the spatial variations of the Coriolis acceleration : in particular, as it vanishes at the equator, fast oscillations are trapped in a thin strip of latitudes.
Mortar finite element discretization of a model coupling Darcy and Stokes equations
As a first draft of a model for a river flowing on a homogeneous porous ground, we consider a system where the Darcy and Stokes equations are coupled via appropriate matching conditions on the interface. We propose a discretization of this problem which combines the mortar method with standard finite elements, in order to handle separately the flow inside and outside the porous medium. We prove a priori and a posteriori error estimates for the resulting discrete problem. Some numerical experiments...
Multiple objective optimization of hydro-thermal systems using Ritz's method.
Multiple spatial scales in engineering and atmospheric low Mach number flows
The first part of this paper reviews the single time scale/multiple length scale low Mach number asymptotic analysis by Klein (1995, 2004). This theory explicitly reveals the interaction of small scale, quasi-incompressible variable density flows with long wave linear acoustic modes through baroclinic vorticity generation and asymptotic accumulation of large scale energy fluxes. The theory is motivated by examples from thermoacoustics and combustion. In an almost obvious way specializations of this...
Multiple spatial scales in engineering and atmospheric low Mach number flows
The first part of this paper reviews the single time scale/multiple length scale low Mach number asymptotic analysis by Klein (1995, 2004). This theory explicitly reveals the interaction of small scale, quasi-incompressible variable density flows with long wave linear acoustic modes through baroclinic vorticity generation and asymptotic accumulation of large scale energy fluxes. The theory is motivated by examples from thermoacoustics and combustion. In an almost obvious way specializations of...