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Lesieur, Marcel Robert was born on July 12, 1945 in Poitiers, France. Son of Leonce Ernest and Edith Marie (Rapilly) Lesieur.
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Turbulence is a dangerous topic which is often at the origin of serious fights in the scientific meetings devoted to it since it represents extremely different points of view, all of which have in common their complexity, as well as an inability to solve the problem. It is even difficult to agree on what exactly is the problem to be solved. Extremely schematically, two opposing points of view have been advocated during these last ten years: the first one is "statistical", and tries to model the evolution of averaged quantities of the flow. This com has followed the glorious trail of Taylor and Kolmogorov, munity, which believes in the phenomenology of cascades, and strongly disputes the possibility of any coherence or order associated to turbulence. On the other bank of the river stands the "coherence among chaos" community, which considers turbulence from a purely deterministic po int of view, by studying either the behaviour of dynamical systems, or the stability of flows in various situations. To this community are also associated the experimentalists who seek to identify coherent structures in shear flows.
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Lesieur, Marcel Robert was born on July 12, 1945 in Poitiers, France. Son of Leonce Ernest and Edith Marie (Rapilly) Lesieur.
Degree in engineering, Ecole Polytechnic, Paris, 1968. Master of Science, University Paris VI, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, University Paris VI, 1970.
Doctor of Science, University Nice, France, 1973.
Research scientist, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, 1969-1971;
research scientist, National Center for Scientific Research, Nice, 1971-1976;
associate professor, National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble, France, 1976-1984;
1st class professor, National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble, France, 1984-1991;
executive class professor, National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble, France, 1992. Senior member Institute University de France, Grenoble, since 1995. Visiting professor University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1982-1983.
Head research group Institute de Mecanique, Grenoble, 1983-1985. Director French computational fluid dynamics program National Center for Scientific Research, 1988-1992. Chairman French turbulence research program Center for Educational Affairs/National Center for Scientific Research, France, 1996-1997.
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Member of French Academy of Sciences, European Mechanical Society, French Physical Society, French Mechanical Society.
Married Catherine Lipietz, July 19, 1969 (divorced 1981). Children: Stephanie, Juliette Mariasine. Married Patricia Doctrovee Samba, December 12, 1992.
Children: Guillaume, Alexandre.