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Samuel Boury

SODA cruise in the Arctic Ocean, September 2018.Photography by San Nguyen.

About me

I am an applied mathematician working in geophysical fluid dynamics. Currently a CNRS researcher (Chargé de Recherche, section 02) at Université Paris Cité (Paris, France) in the laboratory Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC), I am working on the modeling of flows in highly porous, heterogeneous media, motivated by carbon capture issues. I am also working on wave turbulence problems as a member of the Simons Collaboration on Wave Turbulence (funded by the Simons Foundation in New York (NY, USA)). My main research interests are in geophysical fluid dynamics and physical oceanography, closely related to climate and environmental issues.

Prior to joining Paris Cité and the MSC lab in 2024, I was an Assistant Professor (2020-2023) affiliated to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS) at New York University (New York (NY), USA), in a joint position as a Courant Instructor and a Simons Foundation Fellow, working on erosion and shape formation of solid bodies by flows (at the Applied Maths Laboratory (AML)), and on wave turbulence (within the Simons Collaboration on Wave Turbulence). I was then a CNRS postdoctoral researcher (2023-2024) at Université Paris-Saclay (Orsay, France), in the laboratory Fluides, Automatique et Systèmes Thermiques (FAST), working on internal wave turbulence on an experimental project funded by the Simons Collaboration on Wave Turbulence.

I hold a Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics (2017-2020), undertaken under the joint-supervision of Philippe Odier (ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France) and Thomas Peacock (MIT, Cambridge (MA), USA). This work focused on experimental and theoretical aspects of axisymmetric internal waves strongly related to oceanographic applications, e.g. in the Arctic Ocean.

Recent Highlights

October 2024 -- I have been invited to participate in the roundtable "Océans, acteurs clés du réchauffement climatique" held on October 5 at the Journée climat, biodiversité et systèmes complexes organised by the Institut des Systèmes Complexes (ISC) in Paris.


October 2024 -- Thrilled to announce that I am now a CNRS researcher / Assistant Professor (Chargé de Recherche, section 02)! This October, I am joining the laboratory Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC) at Université Paris Cité (Paris, France).


August 2024 -- The yardangs study undertaken at Courant's Applied Math Lab has garnered a lot of attention through press releases and media coverage over the past months. A chronology and some details about the study are available on this page.


July 2024 -- Yardangs sculpted by erosion of heterogeneous material is now published and available in open source in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Our work has also been selected for the cover of this PNAS issue!


May 2024 -- Excited to report that our experimental and numerical geomorphological study on yardangs has been accepted in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences!


November 2023 -- A year after winning the Milton van Dyke poster award at the 2022 APS DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion in Indianapolis (IN, USA), our article Sculpting the Sphinx has been published as an invited entry in Physical Review Fluids! In addition to New York University press release, this research has been featured in several public-reaching articles (e.g. fyfluiddynamics and Geo).


November 2023 -- Our numerical and theoretical study on Fast-Slow Wave Transitions Induced by a Random Mean Flow has been published in Physical Review E.


October 2023 -- I am starting a new position as CNRS postdoctoral researcher at Université Paris-Saclay (Orsay, France), in the Fluides, Automatique et Systèmes Thermiques (FAST) laboratory.


February 2023 -- How does confining waves influence non-linear resonance conditions? More details in our theoretical and experimental study now published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics.


November 2022 -- Sculpting the Sphinx has won the Milton van Dyke poster award at the 2022 APS DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion!


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Current and Former Research Topics

Arctic Ocean
Waves - Mean Flows Interactions
Oceanic Double Diffusion
Arctic Ocean
Sculpting with Fluids and Flows
Random Walks Through Poetry
A Mushy Source for the Geysers of Enceladus
Non-Linear Interactions of 3D Internal Waves
Internal Wave Tunneling
Enhancing 3D Internal Waves Attractors
Whither the Chukchi Slope Current?
Challenging Axisymmetric Internal Waves
Forcing the BvK Instability
Understanding the Moving Bottleneck
Experiencing the Antlion Trap

CONTACT INFO

Email: sbry.phy@gmail.com

Office: Université Paris Cité
Laboratory Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC) -- UMR 7057
Bâtiment Condorcet -- Office 841A
10 Rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet
75013 Paris (France)