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Professor Patrick Huerre received his Ingénieur’s degree from Ecole Centrale Paris in 1970 and his PhD in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1976. After postdoctoral work at the University of Leeds with the late Professor David Crighton, he joined the faculty of the department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1978.

In 1989 he was appointed Professor of Mechanics at Ecole Polytechnique. Since 1991, he has also been Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Patrick Huerre was the founder and director of the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX) at Ecole Polytechnique in the period 1990-2008. Patrick Huerre is President of the European Mechanics Society. He was Associate-Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (1999-2009). He has served on several committees and panels in Europe and in the United States. Patrick Huerre is a member of the Académie des Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

His research areas of interest cover a wide variety of hydrodynamic instabilities and transition phenomena in shear flows. His main research achievements include the effective use of absolute/convective instability concepts to rigorously distinguish between amplifiers and oscillators in fluid mechanics, the introduction of the notions of linear and nonlinear global mode and associated frequency selection criteria to account for the dynamics of oscillators and the identification of super-directivity as a key mechanism for the production of sound in shear flows.

Most representative publications

MOON H.T., HUERRE P., REDEKOPP L.G. Transitions to Chaos in the Ginzburg-Landau Equation Physica (1983) 7D, 135-150

HO C.M., HUERRE P. Perturbed Shear Layers Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (1984) 16, 365-424

HUERRE P., MONKEVITZ P.A. Absolute and Convective Instabilities in Free Shear Layers Journal of Fluid Mechanics (1985) 159, 151-168

CRIGHTON D.G., HUERRE P. Shear Layer Pressure Fluctuations and Superdirective Acoustic Sources Journal of Fluid Mechanics (1990) 220, 355-368

HUERRE P., MONKEWITZ P.A. Local and Global Instabilities in Spatially Developing Flows Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, (1990) 22, 473-537

CHOMAZ J.M., HUERRE P., REDEKOPP L.G. A Frequency Selection Criterion in Spatially Developing Flows Studies in Applied Mathematics, (1991) 84, 119-144

MONKEWITZ, P.A., HUERRE P., CHOMAZ J.M. Global Linear Stability Analysis of Weakly Non-Parallel Shear Flows Journal of Fluid Mechanics, (1993) 251, 1-20

PARK, D.S., HUERRE P. Primary and Secondary Instabilities of the Asymptotic Suction Boundary Layer on a Curved Plate Journal of Fluid Mechanics, (1995) 283, 249-272

DELBENDE I., CHOMAZ J.M., HUERRE P. Absolute/Convective Instabilities in the Batchelor Vortex : a Numerical Study of the Linear Impulse Response Journal of Fluid Mechanics, (1998) 355, 229-254

HUERRE P., ROSSI M. Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Open Flows in "Hydrodynamics and Nonlinear Instabilities" GODRÈCHE, C. and MANNEVILLE, P. (eds), Cambridge University Press (1998) pp. 81-294

HUERRE P. Open Shear Flow Instabilities in "Perspectives in Fluid Dynamics" G.K. BATCHELOR, H.K. MOFFATT and M.G. WORSTER (eds) Cambridge University Press (2000) pp. 159-229

PIER B., HUERRE P. Nonlinear Self-Sustained Structures and Fronts in Spatially-Developing Wake Flows Journal of Fluid Mechanics, (2001) 435, 145-174

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