Research at the IMFT, Institut de Mecanique des Fluides de Toulouse
Teaching at the INPT-ENSEEIHT, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse

IMFT, OTE Group, UMR CNRS/INPT/UPS 5502
Allee du Professeur Camille Soula, 31400 Toulouse , France
ph.: +33 5-61-28-59-52
fax: +33 5-61-28-58-99
mail: thomas.bonometti@imft.fr

  Research interests
Fluid Mechanics, Numerical methods, Multiphase flows, Geophysical flows

  Teaching topics
Fluid mechanics, numerical methods, computational fluid dynamics, turbulent mixing, sediment transport.

  Formation
Mechanical Engineering Diploma, INPT – ENSEEIHT Toulouse , France (2002)
Master Degree in Energy and Fluid Dynamics, INPT Toulouse , France (2002)
PhD Degree in Fluid Mechanics (with J. Magnaudet) , INPT – IMFT, Toulouse , France (2005)

  Academic positions
2005-2006 Substitute Lecturer at the INPT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France
2006-2008 Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Florida (with S. Balachandar), Gainesville, FL, USA
2008-2009 Assistant Professor at IMFT - ENSEEIHT - INPT, Toulouse, France
2009-         Associate Professor at IMFT - ENSEEIHT - INPT, Toulouse, France

  Industrial experience
Summer 2001: Research Engineer, Dept. Chemical Engineering (with S.R. Duke), Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.
Summer 2002: Research Engineer, EDF R&D - Electricite de France, Clamart, France.

  Professional Society Membership
American Physical Society (APS)
Association Francaise de Mecanique (AFM)

  Awards and Honors
Top of the year at ENSEEIHT (2002)
CNRS/Arcelor Fellowship (2002-2005)
Invited Speaker, ICPF Prague (2005)
Laureate of the Léopold Escande Prize (2007)
Invited Speaker, Thermal Fluid Colloqium, University of Florida (2007)

  Publications

Bonometti T. & Balachandar S., Slumping of non-Boussinesq density currents of various initial fractional depths: a comparison between direct numerical simulations and a recent shallow-water model. Comput. Fluids (to appear)

Bonometti T., Balachandar S. & Magnaudet J. 2008 Wall effects in non-Boussinesq density currents. J. Fluid Mech. 616, 445-475.

Bonometti T. & Balachandar S. 2008 Effect of Schmidt number on the structure and propagation of density currents. Theor. Comput. Fluid Dyn. 22, 341-361.

Sarrazin F., Bonometti T., Prat L., Gourdon C. & Magnaudet J. 2008 Hydrodynamic structures of droplets engineered in rectangular micro-channels. Micro. Nano. 5, 131-137.

Bonometti T., Magnaudet J. & Gardin P. 2007 On the dispersion of solid particles in a liquid agitated by a bubble swarm. Metall. Mater. Trans. B 38, 739-750.

Bonometti T. & Magnaudet J. 2007 An interface capturing method for incompressible two-phase flows. Validation and application to bubble dynamics. Int. J. Multiphase Flow 33, 109-133.

Sarrazin F., Bonometti T., Loubiere K., Prat L., Gourdon C. & Magnaudet J. 2006 Experimental and numerical study of droplets hydrodynamics in microchannels. AIChE Journal 52 , 4061-4070.

Bonometti T. & Magnaudet J. 2006 Transition from spherical cap to toroidal bubbles. Phys. Fluids 18, 052102.

Emerson Z.I., Bonometti T., Krishnagopalan G.A. & Duke S.R. 2006 Visualization of toner ink adsorption at bubble surfaces. TAPPI Journal 5, 10-16.

  Conferences

Bonometti T. & Balachandar S. 2007 Schmidt number and non-Boussinesq effects on the propagation of density currents, APS - 60th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Bonometti T. & Magnaudet J. 2007 Sur la transition entre calottes sphériques et bulles toriques (acte avec comité de lecture). CFM - 18ème Congrès Français de Mécanique, Grenoble, France.

Magnaudet J. & Bonometti T. 2007 Silver Street vs. Pembrooke Street : The transition from spherical cap to toroidal bubbles. IUTAM Symposium on recent advances in multiphase flows : Numerical and experimental, Turquie.

Bonometti T. & Magnaudet J. 2006 Transition from spherical cap to toroidal bubbles. APS - 59th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Tampa Bay, FL, USA.

Bonometti T. & Magnaudet J. 2006 The transition from spherical cap to toroidal bubbles. EFMC - 6th Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.

Magnaudet J. , Bonometti T., Merle A. & Legendre D. 2006 Simulation d'ecoulements diphasiques incompressibles à bulles et à gouttes. Séminaire CEA-GAMNI de Mécanique des Fluides Numérique, France.

Sarrazin F., Loubière K., Prat L., Gourdon C., Bonometti T. & Magnaudet J. 2006 Numerical study and PIV validation of droplets hydrodynamics in microchannels. Microfluidics 2006, France.

Bonometti T. & Magnaudet J. 2005 Une méthode de simulation d'écoulements diphasiques à topologie variable sans reconstruction d'interface (acte avec comité de lecture). CFM - 17ème Congrès Français de Mécanique, Troyes, France.

Bonometti T. & Dupont J.B. 2005 Simulation des écoulements à topologie complexe. 7ème Journée Thématique FERMaT, Toulouse, France.

  Gallery

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(a) A bubble swarm (Iso-surface C=0.5 ; Re=280 ; Bo=1 ; Mo=1.10^-9 ; density and viscosity ratios of 100 ; mesh 100^3)
(b) A gas bubble passing through a liquid-liquid interface (mesh 60x60x120)
(c) A lock-exchange dam-break flow (channel length = 25 channel height ; "Re"=Ar=50000 ; density ratio of 5 ; viscosity ratio of 1 ; mesh 2400x240 ; the height has been stretched out by a factor 3.3)