Laurent Joly

Laurent Joly is a Researcher affiliated with the Department of Aerodynamics, Energetics, and Propulsion (DAEP) at ISAE-SUPAERO. He specializes in turbulence and mixing processes, particularly focusing on Rayleigh-Taylor instability and Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in fluid dynamics. Since 2010, he has taught a graduate-level course on Turbulence and Mixing as part of the M2R DET core curriculum, emphasizing advanced topics in turbulent flow analysis and mixing quantification.

• Research Focus: Non-modal secondary stability, structural/statistical turbulence approaches, and iso-concentration surface analysis.
• Teaching: Course content spans turbulent fluid fundamentals, kinematics, deformation effects on mixing intensity, and post-instability mixing dynamics.

His work involves high-resolution simulations and post-processing code development, particularly in collaboration with CEA researchers like S. Gauthier. He supervised Adriana Lopez-Zazueta’s 2015 thesis on inhomogeneous mixture layers, which contributed to ongoing studies in fluid instability analysis.