Alban Potherat

Alban Potherat is a Professor and Centre Director at the Research Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems, Coventry University. His research focuses on magnetohydrodynamics, turbulence, rotating flows, convection, heat transfer, and particulate flows. Applications span geophysical flows, nuclear fusion, and materials processing. Supported by a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, his work combines numerical simulation, theoretical models, and experimental methods.

Research interests include fluid dynamics phenomena such as Alfvén waves, acoustic streaming, and planetary core modeling via the 'Little Earth Experiment'. Recent studies explore turbulence transitions in shear flows, magnetic field effects on convection, and low-Reynolds-number MHD turbulence. Collaborations span global institutions in geophysics and fluid dynamics.

• Awards: Wolfson Research Merit Award (Royal Society)
• Supervised Works: 9 research projects
• Labs/Teams: Leads the Research Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems

His experimental and computational work addresses fundamental questions in fluid mechanics, with applications from planetary science to industrial processes. Key contributions include advancing understanding of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence regimes and acoustic streaming dynamics in complex fluids.