Dr Quentin Kriaa
Assistant Professor
Quentin conducts analogue lab experiments, as well as idealised numerical and analytical models, to study environmental and geophysical flows, with a focus on unraveling small-scale processes within large-scale turbulent flows. He is especially interested in multiphase flows and how chemical reactions and phase changes influence mixing and the transport of pollutants and particles, through a range of topics including cloud dynamics, landslides, microplastic dispersal, crystallising magmatic flows and solidifying planetary cores.
Publications
2025
Dynamics of snow zones in solidifying planetary cores Journal Article
In: Europhysics News, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 28 – 31, 2025.
2024
Influence of planetary rotation on metal-silicate mixing and equilibration in a magma ocean Journal Article
In: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, vol. 352, 2024.
Solid–liquid phase change in planetary cores; [Changement de phase dans les noyaux planétaires] Journal Article
In: Comptes Rendus Physique, vol. 25, 2024.
2023
Two-way coupling Eulerian numerical simulations of particle clouds settling in a quiescent fluid Journal Article
In: Physical Review Fluids, vol. 8, no. 7, 2023.
2022
Effects of particle size and background rotation on the settling of particle clouds Journal Article
In: Physical Review Fluids, vol. 7, no. 12, 2022.
Modeling of impulse waves generated by a viscous collapse in water Journal Article
In: Physical Review Fluids, vol. 7, no. 5, 2022.