DOMINIQUE LEGENDRE

Dominique Legendre, deputy director of IMFT (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse). Specialized in multiphase flows, in particular, bubble and drop dynamics including, heat and mass transfer, icing, and wetting phenomena.

Role in the LeidenForce project

• [expert]   IMFT (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse) • france 🇫🇷

Biography

Prof. Dominique Legendre graduated with a PhD in Fluid Mechanics from Toulouse INP, France, in 1996. He has been a Professor of Fluid Mechanics since 2007 and he is deputy director of IMFT (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse), one of the leading Fluid Mechanics Institutes in Europe. He has been chairman of the Governing Board of the International Conference of Multiphase Flows (ICMF) from 2022 to 2025.

His main line of research is multiphase flows, in particular, bubble and drop dynamics including, heat and mass transfer, icing, and wetting phenomena. Over the last decade, he has developed an original research program on Airtanker efficiency.

Affiliation & links

Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT)