PIERRE COLINET
Biography
Pierre Colinet, Research Director of FNRS and Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Specialized in Fluid Physics, Physical Chemistry and Modeling of Multiphase Systems.
Role in the LeidenForce project
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Biography
Pierre Colinet is a Research Director of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he heads the Fluid Physics Research Unit within the TIPs (Transfers, Interfaces and Processes) laboratory.
He currently teaches Physical Chemistry and Modeling of Multiphase Systems, and his main research interests are in capillarity, wetting, surface-tension-driven flows, phase change (e.g. evaporation and boiling, solidification), heat/mass transfer, CO2 capture, thin films and droplets, pattern formation, hydrodynamic instabilities, nonlinear dynamics, micro- and nano-fluidics, etc.
His group is now conducting experiments involving measurement techniques such as interferometry, applying to investigation on evaporating droplets of pure liquids and mixtures.
He is the author of 2 monographs, several editorships, about 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and about 50 conference proceedings.
Lab
The Transfers, Interfaces and Processes (TIPs) laboratory of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is composed of 6 professors and approximately 35 researchers.
The objective of the research carried out at the TIPs lab is the experimental characterization and the mathematical modeling of transport phenomena within systems containing several phases (gas and/or liquid and/or solid), exchanging matter, heat or momentum, through an interface between these phases, at scales between the micron and the millimeter.
The research carried out revolves around mainly fundamental and/or generic questions. They have direct applications in the fields of health, environment, heat transfer technologies and agro-food, chemical, microtechnology, materials and space industries.
The research results of the TIPs laboratory have led to numerous patents and also enabled the creation of the spin-off Secoya Technologies.
Our current research concerns 9 scientific topics: Fluid physics, Drying, Evaporation and boiling, Gas-liquid transfers, Microfluidics, Physiological fluids, Soft/Wet microrobotics, Interfacial phenomena and Hydrodynamic instabilities.
Affiliation & links
TIPs (Transfers, Interfaces and Processes) laboratory
