MORVAN Dominique

Dominique MORVAN is currently a professor at Université d’Aix-Marseille and heads the Mechanics Department of the Faculté des Sciences. From 1985 to 2000, he was a research fellow at the CNRS, successively in the Département Génie Biologique et Médical of the Université de Compiègne, at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Marseille and at the Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre (Marseille). During his career, he has been interested in problems of modeling blood flow in cardiac cavities, diffusion transport in a bioartificial pancreas model, solid/liquid phase changes in crystalline growing metals and for power laser applications in the mechanical industry. Since 1998, he has been developing research work on the physical modelling of wildfires within the Laboratoire de Mécanique Modélisation et Procédés Propres (M2P2).