Wouter Bos  

CNRS Researcher (Chargé de Recherche)
LMFA (Ecole Centrale de Lyon, UCB, INSA)
Turbulence and stability

Research Interests
- Turbulence in fluids and plasmas
- Scalar mixing and transport in turbulent flows
- Two-point closures and spectral description of turbulence
- Modulated turbulence
- Magnetohydrodynamics

Short CV

2007- CNRS Researcher at the LMFA (Ecole Centrale de Lyon - UCBL - INSA)
2006-2007 PostDoc, MSNM Marseille
2005-2006 ATER (Teaching & Research Assistant), University Lyon 1

2001-2005 PhD, Ecole Centrale de Lyon
2000-2001 Research Internship, Unilever Research
1998-1999 Master Geophysics, University Grenoble 1
1995-2001 Applied Physics, TU Delft

PhD proposals

Feel free to contact me if you are interested to do a PhD or internship in the field of turbulence of fluids or plasmas.

Publications

2004

-On the behavior of the velocity-scalar cross correlation spectrum in the inertial range.
W. Bos, H. Touil, L. Shao, J.-P. Bertoglio, Physics of Fluids 16, 3818 (2004)

2005

-Reynolds number dependency of the scalar flux spectrum in isotropic turbulence with a uniform scalar gradient
W. Bos, H. Touil, J.-P. Bertoglio, Physics of Fluids 17, 125108 (2005) (pdf)

2006

-A single-time two-point closure based on fluid particle displacements
W. Bos, J.-P. Bertoglio, Physics of Fluids 18, 031706 (2006) (pdf)  
-Dynamics of spectrally truncated inviscid turbulence
W. Bos, J.-P. Bertoglio, Physics of Fluids 18, 071701  (2006) (pdf)

2007

-Decay of scalar variance in isotropic turbulence in a bounded domain
G. Lamaison, W. Bos, L. Shao, J.-P. Bertoglio, Journal of Turbulence 8, N4 (2007) (preprint)
-Spectral imbalance and the normalized dissipation rate of turbulence
W. Bos, L. Shao, J.-P. Bertoglio, Physics of Fluids 19, 045101 (2007) (preprint)
-Inertial range scaling of scalar flux spectra in uniformly sheared turbulence
W. Bos, J.-P. Bertoglio, Physics of Fluids 19, 025104 (2007) (preprint)
-Small scale response and modeling of periodically forced turbulence
W. Bos, T. Clark, R. Rubinstein, Physics of Fluids 19, 055107 (2007) (preprint)
-Small-scale intermittency in anisotropic turbulence
W. Bos, L. Liechtenstein, K.Schneider, Phys. Rev. E 76, 046310 (2007)

2008

-Extreme Lagrangian acceleration in confined turbulent flow
B. Kadoch, W. Bos, and K. Schneider, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 184503 (2008)
-Role of coherent vorticity in turbulent transport in resistive drift-wave turbulence
W. Bos, S. Futatani, S. Benkadda, M. Farge, K. Schneider, Phys. Plasmas 15, 072305 (2008)
-The decay of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in a confined domain
S. Neffaa, W. Bos and K. Schneider, Phys. Plasmas, 15, 092304 (2008)
-Rapid generation of angular momentum in bounded magnetized plasma
W. Bos, S. Neffaa and K. Schneider, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 235003 (2008).

2009

-On the unsteady behavior of turbulence models
R. Rubinstein and W. Bos, Phys. Fluids 21, 041701 (2009)
-Large-scale bottleneck effect in two-dimensional turbulence
W. Bos and J.-P. Bertoglio, J. Turbulence 10, N30 (2009)
-Inertial range scaling of the scalar flux spectrum in two-dimensional turbulence
W. Bos, B. Kadoch, K. Schneider and J.-P. Bertoglio, Phys. Fluids 21, 115105 (2009)
-Corrections to the scaling of the second-order structure function in isotropic turbulence
L. Fang, W. Bos, X. Zhou, L. Shao and J.-P. Bertoglio, Acta Mecanica Sinica, Accepted (2009)

Submitted

-Lagrangian dynamics of drift-wave turbulence
W. Bos, B. Kadoch, S. Neffaa and K. Schneider, submitted
-Time-reversibility of Navier-Stokes equations and its implications for subgrid scale models
L. Fang, W. Bos, L. Shao and J.-P. Bertoglio, submitted
-Self-organization and symmetry-breaking in two-dimensional plasma turbulence
W. Bos, S. Neffaa, K. Schneider and D. Montgomery, submitted
-On the structure and dynamics of sheared and rotating turbulence: anisotropy properties and geometrical scale-dependent statistics
F. Jacobitz, K. Schneider, W. Bos and M. Farge, submitted

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The full text of my PhD dissertation: 'Passive scalar mixing in turbulent flow' 24/06/2005

Some of my talks:
Scalar Mixing
An improved Two-point closure.
Turbulence and spectral equilibrium

Links:

LMFA
M2P2
gdr turbulence

e-mail: wouter.bos at ec-lyon.fr