Olivier Desjardins | Cornell Engineering

Biography

Dr. Desjardins joined the Cornell MAE faculty in July 2011. Prior to that, he was on the Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from ENSAE (Supaero) in Toulouse, France, in 2004. The same year, he received a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, then in 2008 he obtained a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He received an NSF CAREER award in 2014 to work on turbulence modeling around liquid-gas interfaces, and he was presented with the Junior Award from the International Conference on Multiphase Flow in 2016.

Research Interests

Dr. Desjardins’ research focuses on large-scale numerical modeling of turbulent reacting multiphase flows with industrial application. Using world-class parallel computers, his group develops numerical methods and models to investigate the multi-scale and multi-physics fluid mechanics problems that arise in a range of engineering devices, such as combustors or biomass reactors.

High-fidelity computational techniques such as large-eddy simulations and direct numerical simulations are at the heart of Dr. Desjardins’ research. By enabling the exploration of complex non-linear flow physics from first principles, these techniques have the potential to guide the development of highly optimized energy and propulsion systems.

Fluid Dynamics and Rheology
Thermal Systems
Combustion
Energy and the Environment

Teaching Interests

Fluid dynamics, Turbulence, Multiphase flows, Computational fluid dynamics

Select Publications

Ireland, P., O. Desjardins. 2017. “Improving particle drag predictions in Euler-Lagrange simulations with two-way coupling.” Journal of Computational Physics.
Kong, B., H. Feng, J. Capecelatro, R. Patel, O. Desjardins, R. Fox. 2017. “Euler-euler anisotropic gaussian mesoscale simulation of homogeneous cluster-induced gas-particle turbulence.” AIChe Journal.
Agbaglah, G., R. Chiodi, O Desjardins. 2017. “Numerical simulation of the initial destabilization of an air-blasted liquid layer.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics812: 1024-1038.
Owkes, M., O Desjardins. 2017. “A mass and momentum conserving unsplit semi-Lagrangian framework for simulating multiphase flows.” Journal of Computational Physics332: 21-46.
Capecelatro, J., O. Desjardins, R O Fox. 2016. “Strongly coupled fluid-particle flows in vertical channels. I. Reynolds-averaged two-phase turbulence statistics.” Physics of Fluids28(3): 033306-033306.

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Select Awards and Honors

Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, Cornell University 2020
Robert '55 and Vanne '57 Cowie Teaching Award (College of Engineering, Cornell University 2016
Junior Award (recognizes outstanding achievements and influential contributions in multiphase flow research by a researcher younger than 40 years, International Conference on Multiphase Flow 2016
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation 2014
Distinguished Paper Award, 33rd International Symposium on Combustion 2010
Outstanding Graduate Education Award, Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder 2008

Education

M.Sc., Aeronautics & Astronautics, SUPAERO 2003
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University 2003
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University 2008