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Théo Touvet

Education
  • M.S., Fluid Mechanics, École Polytechnique, ParisTech (2011)
  • M Tech, Climate Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2010)
  • B.S., Physics, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2009)

Research Interests
  • Antarctic ice-ocean model optimization
  • Origin & evolution of water masses near the South polar ice sheets

Projects

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ECCO2 is an ECCO-follow-on project that aims to produce increasingly accurate syntheses of all available global-scale ocean and sea-ice data at resolutions that start to resolve ocean eddies.


Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2011-Present)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010)
  • University of Alberta (2009)

Selected Publications
  1. T. Touvet, N. J. Balmforth, R. V. Craster & B. R. Sutherland, "Fingering instability in buoyancy-driven fluid-filled cracks", J. Fluid Mech. (2011) 672: 60-77
  2. T. Touvet & B. R. Sutherland, "Experimental three-dimensional schlieren measurements: wave-field reconstruction of a towed sphere", to be submitted to Exp. Fluids

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