Rory CERBUS est membre de l’équipe Matière Molle & Biophysique et de la thématique Turbulence & Instabilités.
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Hello! I’m Rory Cerbus, and I am currently a researcher at the Laboratoire Ondes et Matiére d’Aquitaine (LOMA), Université de Bordeaux, in Bordeaux, France. I work on fluid mechanics and now granular flow. I’ve done research on turbulence, focusing on the transition from quiescent « laminar » flow to fluctuating « turbulent » flow in pipes, as well as on two-dimensional turbulence. Now I am focusing on granular flow and trying to understand why landslides can sometimes travel really far. Outside of the laboratory, I enjoy exploring and traveling with my wife and two kids.
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Employment history
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since 2020
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Laboratoire d’Onde et Matière d’Aquitaine (LOMA)
University of Bordeaux, France
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2015 – 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher, then Staff Scientist
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
Okinawa, Japan
Funding
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2017 – 2019 (2 years): Principal Investigator of the project
Test of the universality class for the transition to turbulence in pipe flow
funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
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2019 – 2021 (2 years): Principal Investigator of the project
Test of the stability of two-dimensional Taylor-Couette flow
funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Publications
You can find my publication details at Google Scholar
Peer-reviewed Articles
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Science Advances 6, eaaw6256 (2020) [arXiv]
Rory T. Cerbus, Chien-chia Liu, Gustavo Gioia, and Pinaki Chakraborty
Small-scale universality in the spectral structure of transitional pipe flows
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics 883, A13 (2020)
Rory T. Cerbus, Jun Sakakibara, Gustavo Gioia, and Pinaki Chakraborty
The turbulent flow in a slug: a re-examination
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Physical Review Letters 120, 054502 (2018) [arXiv]
Rory T. Cerbus, Chien-chia Liu, Gustavo Gioia, and Pinaki Chakraborty
Laws of Resistance in Transitional Pipe Flows
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Physics of Fluids 29(11), 111110 (2017)
Rory T. Cerbus and Pinaki Chakraborty
The third-order structure function in two dimensions: The Rashomon effect
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Physical review letters 117(11), 114502 (2016) [arXiv]
Chien-chia Liu, Rory T. Cerbus, and Pinaki Chakraborty
Janus spectra in two-dimensional flows
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Physical Review E 91(4), 043003 (2015) [arXiv]
Rory T. Cerbus, and Walter I. Goldburg
Predicting two-dimensional turbulence
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Physical review letters 113 (2), 024504 (2014) [Hal Archive]
Devranjan Samanta, François Ingremeau, Rory Cerbus, Tuan Tran, Walter I Goldburg, Pinaki Chakraborty, and Hamid Kellay
Scaling of near-wall flows in quasi-two-dimensional turbulent channels
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Physical Review E 88(5), 053012 (2013) [arXiv]
Rory T. Cerbus, and Walter I. Goldburg
Information content of turbulence
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Physics of Fluids 25(10), 105111 (2013) [arXiv]
Rory T. Cerbus, and Walter I. Goldburg
Intermittency in 2D soap film turbulence
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Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 393, 42-45 (2012)
Rory T. Cerbus, Steve Garoff, Walter I. Goldburg, and Ellen R. Peterson
Local heating at convection fronts and moving contact lines on hygroscopic fluids
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Project
Here I am going to put information about my Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Project: « Experimental and numerical study of long runout landslides ».

Rory T. CERBUS
Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine (LOMA)
351 cours de la libération
33405 Talence Cedex
E-mail: rory.cerbus@u-bordeaux.fr