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most citedIrreversible Collective Migration of Cyanobacteria in Eutrophic Conditions

140 citations

53 papers

physics.soc-ph2025★ 1 cited

The Physics of Sustainability: Material and Power Constraints for the Long Term

José Halloy, Petros Chatzimpiros, François Graner +1

Much of today's sustainability discourse emphasizes efficiency, clean technologies, and smart systems, but largely underestimates fundamental physical constraints relating to energ…

physics.soc-ph2025

Beyond 2050: From deployment to renewal of the global solar and wind energy system

Joseph Le Bihan, Thomas Lapi, José Halloy

The global energy transition depends on large-scale photovoltaic (PV) and wind power deployment. While 2050 targets suggest a transition endpoint, maintaining these systems beyond…

physics.soc-ph2025★ 2 cited

Modeling Technological Deployment and Renewal: Monotonic vs. Oscillating Industrial Dynamics

Joseph Le Bihan, Thomas Lapi, José Halloy

This study proposes a new model based on a classic S-curve that describes deployment and stabilization at maximum capacity. In addition, the model extends to the post-growth platea…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 17 cited

Cool Pavements

Martin Hendel

Cool pavements designate alternative pavements designed to reduce their contribution to urban heating. Urban heating generally refers to the sensible heat exchanged with the atmosp…

physics.soc-ph2024

Cartographie du confort thermique au sein d'une cours d'{é}cole parisienne : couplage de mesures microclimatiques fixes et mobiles

Ghid Karam, Maïlys Chanial, Maxime Chaumont +2

Climate change will result in more frequent, more intense and longer-lasting heat waves by 2050. As part of its Climate Plan and its resilience strategy, the City of Paris is deplo…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 1 cited

The Oasis Project: UHI mitigation strategies applied to Parisian schoolyards

Ghid Karam, Martin Hendel, Bobée Cécilia +3

Paris is experimenting and implementing strategies to increase the capital's resilience and promote climate change adaptation. Major heatwaves have been hitting the French Capital…

physics.soc-ph2024

Physical and geographic analysis of the urban cooling potential

Martin Hendel, Parison Sophie, Royon Laurent

The performance of a number of urban cooling techniques has been thoroughly studied by the scientific community. However, decision-makers lack the tools to spatialize their deploym…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 1 cited

Thermal and microclimatic behavior of OASIS schoolyard paving materials

Ghid Karam, Maïlys Chanial, Arnaud Grados +2

As part of its Resilience Strategy, the City of Paris' OASIS program aims to contribute ot its adaptation to heatwaves and climate change by transforming schoolyards into climate s…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Hearing the shape of an arena with spectral swarm robotics

Leo Cazenille, Nicolas Lobato-Dauzier, Alessia Loi +7

Swarm robotics relies on robots with minimal sensing and computation that achieve self-organization at the level of the collective to address a variety of tasks. Yet swarm robotics…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

The thermoelectric conversion efficiency problem: Insights from the electron gas thermodynamics close to a phase transition

I. Khomchenko, A. Ryzhov, F. Maculewicz +10

The bottleneck in modern thermoelectric power generation and cooling is the low energy conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials. The detrimental effects of lattice phonons…

econ.GN2020★ 9 cited

An energy-based macroeconomic model validated by global historical series since 1820

Herve Bercegol, Henri Benisty

Global historical series spanning the last two centuries recently became available for primary energy consumption (PEC) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Based on a thorough analys…

quant-ph2020★ 3 cited

Is the Past Determined?

Hervé Zwirn

In a recent paper, I argued against backward in time effects used by several authors to explain delayed choice experiments. I gave an explanation showing that there is no physical…

physics.flu-dyn2020

Acoustic streaming generated by sharp edges: the coupled influences of liquid viscosity and acoustic frequency

Chuanyu Zhang, Xiaofeng Guo, Laurent Royon +1

Acoustic streaming can be generated around sharp structures, even when the acoustic wavelength is much larger than the vessel size. This sharp-edge streaming can be relatively inte…

physics.bio-ph2020★ 8 cited

Thermodynamics of animal locomotion

E. Herbert, H. Ouerdane, Ph. Lecoeur +2

Muscles are biological actuators extensively studied in the frame of Hill's classic empirical model as isolated biomechanical entities, which hardly applies to a living organism su…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 56 cited

Unveiling of the mechanisms of acoustic streaming induced by sharp edges

Chuanyu Zhang, Xiaofeng Guo, Laurent Royon +1

Acoustic waves can generate steady streaming within a fluid owing to the generation of viscous boundary layers near walls, of typical thickness . In microchannels, the acoustic…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 18 cited

Vortex elongation in outer streaming flows

Seyed Amir Bahrani, Nicolas Périnet, Maxime Costalonga +2

We study the secondary time-averaged flow (streaming) generated by an oscillating cylinder immersed within a fluid, under high amplitude forcing so that inertial effects are signif…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 12 cited

A criterion for the pinning and depinning of an advancing contact line on a cold substrate

Rémy Herbaut, Julien Dervaux, Philippe Brunet +2

The influence of solidification on the spreading of liquids is addressed in the situation of an advancing liquid wedge on a cold substrate at , of infinite thermal condu…

q-bio.NC2018★ 2 cited

Modelling zebrafish collective behaviours with multilayer perceptrons optimised by evolutionary algorithms

Leo Cazenille, Nicolas Bredeche, José Halloy

Collective movements are pervasive behaviours among social organisms and have led to the development of many models. However, modelling animal trajectories and social interactions…

q-bio.NC2018★ 6 cited

Evolutionary optimisation of neural network models for fish collective behaviours in mixed groups of robots and zebrafish

Leo Cazenille, Nicolas Bredeche, José Halloy

Animal and robot social interactions are interesting both for ethological studies and robotics. On the one hand, the robots can be tools and models to analyse animal collective beh…

physics.app-ph2018★ 8 cited

Non-linear impedance spectroscopy applied to thermoelectric measurements: beyond the ZT estimation

Etienne Thiébaut, François Pesty, Christophe Goupil +2

Thermoelectric measurement of the dimensionless zT parameter requires multiple physical quantities to be measured, therefore there is great interest to find an experimental setup c…

cs.NE2018★ 17 cited

How to Blend a Robot within a Group of Zebrafish: Achieving Social Acceptance through Real-time Calibration of a Multi-level Behavioural Model

Leo Cazenille, Yohann Chemtob, Frank Bonnet +4

We have previously shown how to socially integrate a fish robot into a group of zebrafish thanks to biomimetic behavioural models. The models have to be calibrated on experimental…

physics.app-ph2018★ 62 cited

Urban water networks as an alternative source for district heating and emergency heat-wave cooling

Xiaofeng Guo, Martin Hendel

Urban water networks can contribute to the energy transition of cities by serving as alternatives sources for heating and cooling. Indeed, the thermal energy potential of the urban…

physics.bio-ph2018★ 13 cited

Slowdown of the surface diffusion during early stages of bacterial colonization

Thomas Vourc'h, Julien Léopoldès, Annick Méjean +3

We study the surface diffusion of the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC during the incipient stages of cell contact with a glass surface in the dilute regime. We ob…

physics.app-ph2018★ 9 cited

Maximization of the thermoelectric cooling of graded Peltier by analytical heat equation resolution

E. Thiébaut, C. Goupil, F. Pesty +3

Increasing the maximum cooling effect of a Peltier cooler can be achieved through materials and device design. The use of inhomogeneous, FGM (functionally graded materials) may be…