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# [Offre de stage 2024](https://cloud.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/s/GGpNEFG8keccZXF) [Projet Lacoscope](https://lacoscope.cnrs.fr/) : La science participative pour imager le plancton des lacs Alpins **Naissance** de l'équipe [MoVe](https://www-liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Nouvelle-traduction-MOVE "MoVe") en Janvier 2020 ! Physique des mouvements naturels dans les fluides [Jurys de thèse, participations](http://www.theses.fr/fr/?q=&zone1=personneRAs&val1=Salima+RAFAI&op1=AND&zone2=personneRAs&val2=Salima+RAFA%C3%8F&op2=AND&zone3=personneRAs&val3=&op3=AND&zone4=dateSoutenance&val4a=01%2F05%2F2007&val4b=01%2F07%2F2052) [Paper in Physics, membre du comité éditorial](https://www.papersinphysics.org/papersinphysics/about/editorialTeam) [Curriculum Vitae (2021)](https://www-liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/IMG/pdf/cvrafai_2021.pdf) Septembre 2020 : **Editor's suggestion** pour notre article dans Phys. Rev. FLuids. [Deflection of phototactic microswimmers through obstacle arrays, M. Brun-Cosme-Bruny et al.](https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.093302) Juin 2020 : L’épisode de **Zeste de Science** "La physique du petit dej" sur la chaîne YouTube de Zeste de Science : <https://youtu.be/LgIp9-mv5So> Mai 2020 : 4 nouvelles années de soutien pour le **collège doctoral Franco-Allemand** Fluides Vivants ! Merci l'[UFA](https://www.dfh-ufa.org/fr/?noredirect=fr_FR). [Physics in a cup of tea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG03MbqgYao&feature=youtu.be), notre **film documentaire** sur les phénomènes Marangoni qui peuvent surgir au peit déjeuner. Et l'article correspondant dans Amercian Journal of Physics. [When dipping toast into a cup of tea leads to a scientific investigation](https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/10.0000025) (featured) Notre projet [Foule de Micronageurs](https://www-liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Foule-de-Micronageurs) lauréat du **programme [80 Prime du CNRS.]**(http://www.cnrs.fr/mi/spip.php?article1503) 'Amoeboid swimming' : **La nage des amibes** ou comment ramper au milieu d’un fluide (?) CNRS - INP (28/11/2013) La Recherche (n◦484, jan 2014) : Nage des amibes / Science et Avenir (nov. 2013) : La drôle de nage des amibes / Pour la Science (n◦435 janv 2014) : [Nager en se déformant ](http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/3337.htm?&theme1=2&debut=32) **Light control of the flow of phototactic microswimmer suspensions** : Editor’s suggestion and featured in Physics with Synopsis: Swimming into the Light (Phys. Rev. Lett.) ; [Comment concentrer et séparer des micro-algues en combinant lumière et écoulement](http://www.cnrs.fr/inp/spip.php?article1635%20) CNRS - INP (05/04/2013) **Effective Viscosity of Microswimmer Suspensions**: [Swimming Microbes Change Fluid Viscosity"](http://physics.aps.org/story/v25/st9), Phys. Rev. Focus 25, 9 (2010); [Reviewed by S. Ramaswamy](http://%20www.condmatjournalclub.org/?p=760) in Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics (Oct 2009) Physics World, Physics comes to life [Comment la nage de micro-organismes modifie la viscosité d’un liquide](%20http:/www.cnrs.fr/inp/spip.php?article332) ? CNRS - INP (juin 2010)
CNRS Researcher[![« Complexité simple (Ambiguité) » (1939), de Kandinsky](https://img.lemde.fr/2016/11/25/0/0/4497/5576/688/0/60/0/1771128_7759-10zxghv.9o2z7aatt9.jpg)](https://img.lemde.fr/2016/11/25/0/0/4497/5576/688/0/60/0/1771128_7759-10zxghv.9o2z7aatt9.jpg "« Complexité simple (Ambiguité) » (1939), de Kandinsky") [Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique ](https://www-liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/MoVe) [MoVe](https://www-liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/MoVe) Team was born in January 2020 ! Physique des mouvements naturels dans les fluides Intenships, PhD, Post-Doc offers : Please feel free to contact me, we always welcome motivated students [ PhD jurys'participations](http://www.theses.fr/fr/?q=&zone1=personneRAs&val1=Salima+RAFAI&op1=AND&zone2=personneRAs&val2=Salima+RAFA%C3%8F&op2=AND&zone3=personneRAs&val3=&op3=AND&zone4=dateSoutenance&val4a=01%2F05%2F2007&val4b=01%2F07%2F2052) [Papers in Physics, editorial board member](https://www.papersinphysics.org/papersinphysics/about/editorialTeam) [Curriculum Vitae (2021)](https://www-liphy.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/IMG/pdf/cvrafai_2021.pdf) ###### ###### « Complexité simple » Kandinsky 1939 September 2020 : editor's suggestion for our paper [Brun-Cosme-Bruny et al 2020 in Phys. Rev. FLuids](https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.093302) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Juin 2020 : L’épisode de Zeste de Science "La physique du petit dej" sur la chaîne YouTube de Zeste de Science : <https://youtu.be/LgIp9-mv5So> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Physics in a cup of tea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG03MbqgYao&feature=youtu.be), notre film documentaire sur les phénomènes Marangoni qui peuvent surgir au peit déjeuner. Et l'article correspondant dans Amercian Journal of Physics. [When dipping toast into a cup of tea leads to a scientific investigation](https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/10.0000025) (featured) Mai 2020 : 4 new years of support for the Living Fluids doctoral school ! Merci l'[UFA](https://www.dfh-ufa.org/fr/?noredirect=fr_FR). 'Amoeboid swimming' : La nage des amibes ou comment ramper au milieu d’un fluide (?) CNRS - INP (28/11/2013) La Recherche (n◦484, jan 2014) : Nage des amibes / Science et Avenir (nov. 2013) : La drôle de nage des amibes / Pour la Science (n◦435 janv 2014) : [Nager en se déformant ](http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/3337.htm?&theme1=2&debut=32) Light control of the flow of phototactic microswimmer suspensions : Editor’s suggestion and featured in Physics with Synopsis: Swimming into the Light (Phys. Rev. Lett.) ; [Comment concentrer et séparer des micro-algues en combinant lumière et écoulement](http://www.cnrs.fr/inp/spip.php?article1635%20) CNRS - INP (05/04/2013) Effective Viscosity of Microswimmer Suspensions: [Swimming Microbes Change Fluid Viscosity"](http://physics.aps.org/story/v25/st9), Phys. Rev. Focus 25, 9 (2010); <a target="_blank">Reviewed by S. Ramaswamy</a> in Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics (Oct 2009) Physics World, Physics comes to life [Comment la nage de micro-organismes modifie la viscosité d’un liquide](%20http:/www.cnrs.fr/inp/spip.php?article332) ? CNRS - INP (juin 2010)

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Active jamming of microswimmers at a bottleneck constriction

Edouardo Al Alam , Marvin Brun-Cosme-Bruny , Vincent Borne , Sylvain Faure , Bertrand Maury
Physical Review Fluids, 2022, 7 (9), pp.L092301. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.L092301⟩
Journal articles hal-03790442v1

A reduced model for a phoretic swimmer

A. Farutin , M.S. Rizvi , W.-F. Hu , T.S. Lin , S. Rafaï
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022, 952, pp.A6. ⟨10.1017/jfm.2022.870⟩
Journal articles hal-03871712v1
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Spontaneous locomotion of phoretic particles in three dimensions

Wei-Fan Hu , Te-Sheng Lin , Salima Rafaï , Chaouqi Misbah
Physical Review Fluids, 2022, 7 (3), pp.034003. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.034003⟩
Journal articles hal-03749176v1
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Deflection of phototactic microswimmers through obstacle arrays

Marvin Brun-Cosme-Bruny , Andre Förtsch , Walter Zimmermann , Eric Bertin , Philippe Peyla
Physical Review Fluids, 2020, 5 (9), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.093302⟩
Journal articles hal-02573236v2
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Amoeboid Swimming Is Propelled by Molecular Paddling in Lymphocytes

Laurene Aoun , Alexander Farutin , Nicolas Garcia-Seyda , Paulin Nègre , Mohd Suhail Rizvi
Biophysical Journal, 2020, 119 (6), pp.1157-1177. ⟨10.1016/j.bpj.2020.07.033⟩
Journal articles hal-03006653v1
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Chaotic Swimming of Phoretic Particles

Wei-Fan Hu , Te-Sheng Lin , Salima Rafaï , Chaouqi Misbah
Physical Review Letters, 2019, 123 (23), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.238004⟩
Journal articles hal-03082889v1

Statistics of Colloidal Suspensions Stirred by Microswimmers

Levke Ortlieb , Salima Rafaï , Philippe Peyla , Christian Wagner , Thomas John
Physical Review Letters, 2019, 122 (14), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.148101⟩
Journal articles hal-02383649v1
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When dipping toast into a cup of tea leads to a scientific investigation

Philippe Marmottant , Florian Orthion , Salima Rafaï
American Journal of Physics, 2019, 87 (12), pp.950-954. ⟨10.1119/10.0000025⟩
Journal articles hal-02380470v1
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Rheological signature of microswimmer phase-locking under flow

Mohd Suhail Rizvi , Abdessamad Nait-Ouhra , Alexander Farutin , Philippe Peyla , Salima Rafaï
Physical Review Fluids, 2019, 4 (10), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.103302⟩
Journal articles hal-02358198v1
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Effective diffusivity of microswimmers in a crowded environment

Marvin Brun-Cosme-Bruny , Eric Bertin , Benoit Coasne , Philippe Peyla , Salima Rafaï
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019, 150 (10), pp.104901. ⟨10.1063/1.5081507⟩
Journal articles hal-02352712v1
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Effective diffusivity of microswimmers in a crowded environment

Marvin Brun-Cosme-Bruny , Eric Bertin , Benoit Coasne , Philippe Peyla , Salima Rafaï
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019, ⟨10.1063/1.5081507⟩
Journal articles hal-01923729v2
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Analytical study for swimmers in a channel

Alexander Farutin , Hao Wu , Wei-Fan Hu , Salima Rafaï , Philippe Peyla
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019, 881 (36), pp.365-383. ⟨10.1017/jfm.2019.751⟩
Journal articles hal-02358195v1
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Effective viscosity of a suspension of flagellar beating microswimmers: Three-dimensional modeling

Levan Jibuti , Walter Zimmermann , Salima Rafaï , Philippe Peyla
Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2017, 96 (5), pp.052610. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.96.052610⟩
Journal articles hal-01637134v1

Amoeboid swimming in a channel

Hao Wu , Alexander Farutin , Wei-Fan Hu , Marine Thiébaud , Salima Rafaï
Soft Matter, 2016, 12 (36), pp.7470 - 7484. ⟨10.1039/c6sm00934d⟩
Journal articles hal-01396257v1
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Photofocusing: Light and flow of phototactic microswimmer suspension

Matthieu Martin , Alexandre Barzyk , Eric Bertin , Philippe Peyla , Salima Rafaï
Physical Review E , 2016, 93 (5), pp.051101(R). ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.93.051101⟩
Journal articles hal-01338449v1
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Amoeboid motion in confined geometry

Hao Wu , M. Thiébaud , W.-F. Hu , A. Farutin , S. Rafaï
Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2015, 92 (5), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.92.050701⟩
Journal articles hal-01230092v1

Self-focusing and jet instability of a microswimmer suspension

Levan Jibuti , Ling Qi , Chaouqi Misbah , Walter Zimmermann , Salima Rafaï
Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2014, 90 (6), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.90.063019⟩
Journal articles hal-01338704v1

Light Control of the Flow of Phototactic Microswimmer Suspensions

Xabel Garcia , Salima Rafaï , Philippe Peyla
Physical Review Letters, 2013, 110, pp.138106. ⟨10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.110.138106⟩
Journal articles hal-00877402v1

Effective viscosity of non-gravitactic Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii microswimmer suspensions

Matthias Mussler , Salima Rafaï , Philippe Peyla , Christian Wagner
EPL - Europhysics Letters, 2013, 101, pp.54004. ⟨10.1209/0295-5075/101/54004⟩
Journal articles hal-00877410v1
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Amoeboid Swimming: A Generic Self-Propulsion of Cells in Fluids by Means of Membrane Deformations

Alexander Farutin , Salima Rafaï , Dag Kristian Dysthe , Alain Duperray , Philippe Peyla
Physical Review Letters, 2013, 111 (22), pp.228102. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.228102⟩
Journal articles hal-00908796v1

Suspensions with a tunable effective viscosity: a numerical study

L. Jibuti , Salima Rafaï , P. Peyla
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2012, 693, pp.345-366. ⟨10.1017/JFM.2011.535⟩
Journal articles hal-00802223v1

The random walk of a low-Reynolds-number swimmer

Michaël Garcia , Stefano Berti , Philippe Peyla , Salima Rafaï
Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2011, 83 (3), pp.035301(R). ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.83.035301⟩
Journal articles hal-00567205v1

Is there a Relationship between the Elongational Viscosity and the First Normal Stress Difference in Polymer Solutions?

A. Zell , S. Gier , S. Rafaï , C. Wagner
Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2010, 165 (19-20), pp.1265
Journal articles hal-00567211v1
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Effective Viscosity of Microswimmer Suspensions

Salima Rafaï , Philippe Peyla , Jibuti Levan
Physical Review Letters, 2010, 104 (9), pp.098102. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.098102⟩
Journal articles hal-00471216v1

Impact dynamics of surfactant laden drops : dynamic surface tension effects

Denis Bartolo , Mounir Aytouna , G.H. Wegdam , Daniel Bonn , Salima Rafaï
Experiments in Fluids, 2009, 48 (1), pp.49. ⟨10.1007/s00348-009-0703-9⟩
Journal articles hal-00471222v1

Is there a Relationship between the Elongational Viscosity and the First Normal Stress Difference in Polymer Solutions?

A. Zell , S. Gier , S. Rafaï
Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2009, 165 (19-20), pp.2506. ⟨10.1016/j.jnnfm.2010.06.010⟩
Journal articles hal-00952275v1

Some applications of magnetic resonance imaging in fluid mechanics : Complex flows and complex fluids

Daniel Bonn , Stéphane Rodts , Marc Groenink , Salima Rafaï , Noushine Shahidzadeh-Bonn
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2008, 40, pp.209. ⟨10.1146/annurev.fluid.40.111406.102211⟩
Journal articles hal-00471442v1

Salt crystallization during evaporation : Impact of interfacial properties

Noushine Shahidzadeh-Bonn , Salima Rafaï , Daniel Bonn , G.H. Wegdam
Langmuir, 2008, 24 (16), pp.8599. ⟨10.1021/la8005629⟩
Journal articles hal-00471418v1

Repulsive and attractive critical Casimir forces

Salima Rafaï , Daniel Bonn , Jacques Meunier
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, 386, pp.31-35. ⟨10.1016/J.PHYSA.2007.07.072⟩
Journal articles hal-00802226v1

Effective exponents in the long-range critical wetting of alkanes on aqueous substrates

Volker Weiss , Emanuel Bertrand , Salima Rafaï , Daniel Bonn , J.O. Indekeu
Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2007, 76, pp.051602
Journal articles hal-00471459v1

Repulsive and attractive critical Casimir forces

Salima Rafaï , Daniel Bonn , Jacques Meunier
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, 386 (1), pp.31
Journal articles hal-00471445v1

Evaporating droplets

Salima Rafaï , Noushine Shahidzadeh-Bonn , A. Azouni , Daniel Bonn
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2006, 549, pp.307. ⟨10.1017/S0022112005008190⟩
Journal articles hal-00471744v1

Spreading of non newtonian fluids on hydrophilic surfaces

Salima Rafaï , Daniel Bonn , Arezki Boudaoud
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2004, 513, pp.77
Journal articles hal-00005732v1

Long-Range critical wetting: Observation of a critical end point

Salima Rafaï , Daniel Bonn , E. Bertrand , J. Meunier , V. C. Weiss
Physical Review Letters, 2004, 92, pp.245701
Journal articles hal-00005731v1

Spreading of non-Newtonian fluids on hydrophilic surfaces

Salima Rafaï , Daniel Bonn , Arezki Boudaoud
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2004, 513, pp.77-85. ⟨10.1017/S0022112004000278⟩
Journal articles hal-00802227v1

Long-Range Critical Wetting: Observation of a Critical End Point

Salima Rafaï , Daniel Bonn , Emanuel Bertrand , Jacques Meunier , Volker C. Weiss
Physical Review Letters, 2004, 92, pp.245701. ⟨10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.92.245701⟩
Journal articles hal-00802229v1

What Controls the Thickness of Wetting Layers near Bulk Criticality?

Denis Fenistein , Daniel Bonn , Salima Rafaï , Gerard H. Wegdam , Jacques Meunier
Physical Review Letters, 2002, 89, pp.96101. ⟨10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.89.096101⟩
Journal articles hal-00802230v1

What controls the thickness of a wetting layer?.

Denis Fenistein , Daniel Bonn , Salima Rafaï , G.H. Wegdam , J. Meunier
Physical Review Letters, 2002, 89, pp.096101
Journal articles hal-00005728v1

Superspreading: aqueous surfactant drops spreading on hydrophobic surfaces

Salima Rafaï , Dipak Sarker , Vance Bergeron , J. Meunier , Daniel Bonn
Langmuir, 2002, 18, pp.10486
Journal articles hal-00005730v1
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Fluctuations et forces de surface dans les transitions de mouillage

Salima Rafaï
Analyse de données, Statistiques et Probabilités [physics.data-an]. Université Paris-Diderot - Paris VII, 2004. Français. ⟨NNT : ⟩
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