Rémy
Monville

ABOUT

I am an early-career researcher in experimental planetary fluid dynamics, currently a postdoc at UCLA, Los Angeles. My work explores rotating and convecting fluids, with a focus on how they interact with topography. During my PhD at ISTerre in Grenoble, I investigated topographic coupling at the Earth's core-mantle boundary. Now, I am working on modeling the dynamics of Europa’s subsurface ocean, studying how its motion is influenced by tidal heating and interactions with the seafloor and ice shell topography.

EXPERIENCES

• PhD: Topographic couplings and waves in planetary cores (Oct 2020 - Mar 2024)
  ISTerre , Grenoble Institute of Earth Sciences, Gières, 38610, France

  • Intership in the Geodynamo team, supervised by David Cébron and Dominique Jault
  • Work on linear perturbative model, calculating flow and tangential stress along a topography in the presence of rotation, magnetic field and stratification
  • Development of a Python code ToCCo

• M.SC.2 Internship: Topographic effects and wave emission in rotating stratified fluids
  ISTerre , Grenoble Institute of Earth Sciences, Gières, 38610, France

  • Intership in the Geodynamo team, supervised by David Cébron and Dominique Jault
  • Work on linear perturbative model, calculating flow and tangential stress along a topography in the presence of rotation, magnetic field and stratification
  • Development of a Python code ToCCo

• M.SC.1 Internship: the mont blanc and its cooling role in the arve valley during ”cold air pool” episodes (Apr 2019 - May 2019)
  LEGI, Laboratory of industrial and geophysical flows, Gières, 38610, France

  • Atmospheric simulations using MESO-NH code (Météo-France) from results of AROME model during a cold air pool process on the Arve valley. Study of katabatic wind, and thermal inversion processes. Supervisor: Christophe Brun
  • Development of visualisation tools in Python (Mesonh2vtk,mesonh-vslice-visu)

• L.SC.3 Internship: double diffusive convection in rotating stratified spheres (Apr - Jul 2018)
  ISTerre , Grenoble Institute of Earth Sciences, Gières, 38610, France

  • Work on Numerical simulation of Double Diffusive convection in rotating stratified fluids enclosed in spheres. Supervisors: David Cébron, Nathanael Schaeffer
  • Use of the high performance Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic simulation code Xshells (dev. by N. Schaeffer https://bitbucket.org/nschaeff/xshells)
  • Development of a linear model of instability in Python Language
  • Writting a research paper: ” Monville, R., Vidal, J., Cébron, D., & Schaeffer, N. (2019). Rotating double-diffusive convection in stably stratified planetary cores. Geophysical Journal International, 219(Supplement 1), S195-S218.”

EDUCATION

Grenoble Alpes University

• M.SC. Atmosphere, Climate, Continental Surfaces 2018 - 2020

• B.SC. Physics, Earth Sciences, Mechanics 2015 - 2018