Damien VIOLEAU

Professeur, Chercheur Senior LHSV

Hired by EDF on 1997, May the 1rst

Education

• Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées 1996
• 'Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches' 2010

Fields of interest

• SPH method (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics)
• Turbulent flows
• Water waves
• Water works

Current research

• Dispersive, nonlinear water waves
• Complex porous flows
• Numerical properties of the SPH method

Teaching

• Ecole des Ponts ParisTech: Professor, course on Incompressible Fluid Mechanics
• Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay: in charge of the course on Incompressible Fluid Mechanics
• Ecole des Ponts ParisTech: Professor, course on SPH

Awards

• Arthur Thomas Ippen Award 2015
• Listed among the Top 2% World scientists in 2020 by a team of scientists at Stanford University
• 16 PhD students awards

Communities

• IAHR: active member, IAHR Fellow
• SPHERIC: Steering Commitee member

Supervision

• Bastien Jouy
• Coline De Sousa

Publications

• Martin Ferrand, Antoine Joly, Christophe D Kassiotis, Damien Violeau, Agnès D Leroy, et al.. Unsteady open boundaries for SPH using semi-analytical conditions and Riemann solver in 2D. Computer Physics Communications, 2017, 210, pp.29-44. ⟨10.1016/j.cpc.2016.09.009⟩. ⟨hal-05320591⟩
• Coline de Sousa, Guillaume Oger, Julien Michel, David Le Touzé, Damien Violeau. SPH modelling of water flow inside a porous medium using a Riemann based formulation. 19th SPHERIC World Conference, Jun 2025, Barcelone, Spain. ⟨hal-05125069⟩
• Coline de Sousa, Guillaume Oger, Damien Violeau, David Le Touzé. Modelling elastic structures using SPH: comparison between Riemann-based and diffusive term-based stabilization. 17th SPHERIC International Workshop, Jun 2023, Rhodes (Grèce), Greece. ⟨hal-05119097⟩
• Antoine Villefer, Michel Benoit, Damien Violeau, Maria Teles, Christopher Luneau. Étude expérimentale de submersion de protections côtières pour des états de mer combinant houle et clapot. Revue Paralia, 2024, 14, pp.s02.1-s02.12. ⟨10.5150/revue-paralia.2024.s02⟩. ⟨hal-04621473⟩
• Damien Violeau. Serre Equations in Channels and Rivers of Arbitrary Cross Section. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2023, 149 (7), ⟨10.1061/JHEND8.HYENG-13406⟩. ⟨hal-04566154⟩
• Antoine Villefer, Michel Benoit, Damien Violeau, Maria Teles. Spectral wave modeling of bimodal sea states at laboratory and coastal scales. Ocean Modelling, 2023, 183, pp.102182. ⟨10.1016/j.ocemod.2023.102182⟩. ⟨hal-04566145⟩
• I. Rifai, V. Schmitz, S. Erpicum, P. Archambeau, Damien Violeau, et al.. Continuous Monitoring of Fluvial Dike Breaching by a Laser Profilometry Technique. Water Resources Research, 2020, 56 (10), ⟨10.1029/2019WR026941⟩. ⟨hal-04566136⟩
• Athanasios Mokos, Rémi Carmigniani, Agnès Leroy, Damien Violeau. Simulating wave overtopping on a complex coastal structure using SPH. Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research, 2020, 8 (1), pp.55-65. ⟨10.1080/23249676.2020.1719221⟩. ⟨hal-04566133⟩
• Andreia Borges Moreira, Agnès Leroy, Damien Violeau, Francisco de Almeida Taveira-Pinto. Overview of Large-Scale Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Modeling of Dam Hydraulics. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2020, 146 (2), ⟨10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001658⟩. ⟨hal-04566131⟩
• Athanasios Mokos, Damien Violeau, Frédéric Sarret, Matthieu de Leffe, Yvan Bercovitz. SPH modelling of the water nappe gravity fall over a dam. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 2022, 60 (4), pp.606-618. ⟨10.1080/00221686.2021.2022029⟩. ⟨hal-04566127⟩
• Damien Violeau. Cosmogenic tsunamic risk assessment: a first application to the European Atlantic coasts. Natural Hazards, 2020, 105 (1), pp.735-753. ⟨10.1007/s11069-020-04334-9⟩. ⟨hal-04566126⟩
• Ismail Rifai, Kamal El Kadi Abderrezzak, Sebastien Erpicum, Pierre Archambeau, Damien Violeau, et al.. Floodplain Backwater Effect on Overtopping Induced Fluvial Dike Failure. Water Resources Research, 2018, 54 (11), pp.9060-9073. ⟨10.1029/2017WR022492⟩. ⟨hal-04562649⟩
• Ismail Rifai, Kamal El Kadi Abderrezzak, Sébastien Erpicum, Pierre Archambeau, Damien Violeau, et al.. Flow and detailed 3D morphodynamic data from laboratory experiments of fluvial dike breaching. Scientific Data , 2019, 6 (1), pp.53. ⟨10.1038/s41597-019-0057-y⟩. ⟨hal-04562646⟩
• Damien Violeau, Thomas Fonty. Calculating the smoothing error in SPH. Computers and Fluids, 2019, 191, pp.104240. ⟨10.1016/j.compfluid.2019.104240⟩. ⟨hal-04562643⟩
• Damien Violeau. Cosmogenic tsunamic risk assessment: a first application to the European Atlantic coasts. Natural Hazards, 2020, 105 (1), pp.735-753. ⟨10.1007/s11069-020-04334-9⟩. ⟨hal-04562636⟩
• Athanasios Mokos, Damien Violeau, Frédéric Sarret, Matthieu de Leffe, Yvan Bercovitz. SPH modelling of the water nappe gravity fall over a dam. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 2022, 60 (4), pp.606-618. ⟨10.1080/00221686.2021.2022029⟩. ⟨hal-04562633⟩
• Antoine Villefer, Michel Benoit, Damien Violeau, Maria Teles. Spectral wave modeling of bimodal sea states at laboratory and coastal scales. Ocean Modelling, 2023, 183, pp.102182. ⟨10.1016/j.ocemod.2023.102182⟩. ⟨hal-04562628⟩
• Damien Violeau. Serre Equations in Channels and Rivers of Arbitrary Cross Section. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2023, 149 (7), ⟨10.1061/JHEND8.HYENG-13406⟩. ⟨hal-04562625⟩
• Rémi Carmigniani, Agnès Leroy, Damien Violeau. A simple SPH model of a free surface water wave pump: waves above a submerged plate. Coastal Engineering Journal, 2019, 61 (1), pp.96-108. ⟨10.1080/21664250.2018.1560923⟩. ⟨hal-02947283⟩
• Athanasios Mokos, Rémi Carmigniani, Agnès Leroy, Damien Violeau. Simulating wave overtopping on a complex coastal structure using SPH. Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research, Taylor & Francis Online, 2020, 8 (1), pp.55-65. ⟨10.1080/23249676.2020.1719221⟩. ⟨hal-03681651⟩
• Remi Carmigniani, Damien Violeau. Optimal sponge layer for water waves numerical models. Ocean Engineering, Elsevier, 2018, 163, pp.169-182. ⟨hal-03681628⟩
• Rémi Carmigniani, Agnès Leroy, Damien Violeau. A simple SPH model of a free surface water wave pump: waves above a submerged plate. Coastal Engineering Journal, World Scientific Publishing, 2019, 61 (1), pp.96-108. ⟨10.1080/21664250.2018.1560923⟩. ⟨hal-03681634⟩
• Antoine Villefer, Michel Benoit, Damien Violeau, Christopher Luneau, Hubert Branger. Influence of following, regular and irregular long waves on wind-wave growth with fetch: an experimental study. Journal of Physical Oceanography, American Meteorological Society, 2021, 51 (11), pp.3435-3448. ⟨10.1175/JPO-D-21-0050.1⟩. ⟨hal-03345981⟩
• Antoine Joly, Frédéric Moulin, Damien Violeau, D. Astruc. Diffusion in grid turbulence of isotropic macro-particles using a Lagrangian stochastic method: theory and validation.. Physics of Fluids, American Institute of Physics, 2012, 24, pp.103303. ⟨10.1063/1.4757653⟩. ⟨hal-00796088⟩
• Antoine Joly, Damien Violeau, Frédéric Moulin, Dominique Astruc, Christophe Kassiotis. Transport of isotropic particles in a partially obstructed channel flow. Journal of Hydraulic Research, Taylor & Francis, 2012, 50 (3), pp.324-337. ⟨10.1080/00221686.2012.686457⟩. ⟨hal-00796099⟩
• Antoine Villefer, Michel Benoit, Damien Violeau, Maria Teles, Jeffrey Harris, et al.. Experimental and numerical characterization of swell type waves effect on wind sea growth with fetch. 27th Waves in Sea Environment (WISE) meeting, Sep 2021, Bergen, Norway. ⟨hal-03348168⟩
• Antoine Villefer, Maria Teles, Michel Benoit, Damien Violeau, Jeffrey Harris, et al.. Influence of swell on wind-wave growth with fetch: an experimental and numerical study. Workshop Air/sea Interactions, Summer School Oxy-Jeunes, Ecole de Physique des Houches, Jul 2021, Les Houches, France. ⟨hal-03348165⟩
• Antoine Villefer, Michel Benoit, Damien Violeau, Christopher Luneau, Hubert Branger. Influence of following, regular and irregular long waves on wind-wave growth with fetch: an experimental study. Journal of Physical Oceanography, American Meteorological Society, 2021, ⟨10.1175/JPO-D-21-0050.1⟩. ⟨hal-03345981⟩
• Thomas Fonty, Martin Ferrand, Agnès Leroy, Damien Violeau. Air entrainment modeling in the SPH method: a two-phase mixture formulation with open boundaries. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, Springer Verlag (Germany), 2020, 105 (4), pp.1149-1195. ⟨10.1007/s10494-020-00165-7⟩. ⟨hal-03248993⟩
• Thomas Fonty, Martin Ferrand, Agnès Leroy, Antoine Joly, Damien Violeau. Mixture model for two-phase flows with high density ratios: A conservative and realizable SPH formulation. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Elsevier, 2019, 111, pp.158-174. ⟨10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2018.11.007⟩. ⟨hal-03248980⟩
• Remi Carmigniani, Damien Violeau. Optimal sponge layer for water waves numerical models. Ocean Engineering, Elsevier, 2018, 163, pp.169-182. 〈hal-01944350〉
• Marine Le Gal, Damien Violeau, Riadh Ata, Xiaoming Wang. Shallow water numerical models for the 1947 gisborne and 2011 Tohoku-Oki tsunamis with kinematic seismic generation. Coastal Engineering, Elsevier, 2018, 139, pp.1-15. 〈hal-01944346〉
• Damien Violeau, Agnès Leroy, Antoine Joly, Alexis Hérault. Spectral properties of the SPH Laplacian operator. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2018, 〈10.1016/j.camwa.2018.02.023〉. 〈hal-01738515〉
• Marine Le Gal, Damien Violeau, Michel Benoit. Influence of timescales on the generation of seismic tsunamis. European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, Elsevier, 2017, 65, pp.257 - 273. 〈10.1016/j.euromechflu.2017.03.008〉. 〈hal-01738496〉
• Ismail Rifai, Sébastien Erpicum, Pierre Archambeau, Damien Violeau, Michel Pirotton, et al.. Overtopping induced failure of noncohesive, homogeneous fluvial dikes. Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 2017, 53 (4), pp.3373 - 3386. 〈10.1002/2016WR020053〉. 〈hal-01778507〉
• Damien Violeau, Ismail Rifai, Sébastien Erpicum, Pierre Archambeau, Michel Pirotton, et al.. Overtopping induced failure of noncohesive, homogeneous fluvial dikes. Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 2017, 53 (4), pp.3373 - 3386. 〈10.1002/2016WR020053〉. 〈hal-01738509〉
• Remi Carmigniani, Michel Benoit, Damien Violeau, Morteza Gharib. Resonance wave pumping with surface waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017, 811, pp.1 - 36. 〈10.1017/jfm.2016.720〉. 〈hal-01738482〉
• Martin Ferrand, Antoine Joly, Christophe Kassiotis, Damien Violeau, Agnès Leroy, et al.. Unsteady open boundaries for SPH using semi-analytical conditions and Riemann solver in 2D. 2016. 〈hal-01376579〉
• Antoine Joly, Damien Violeau, Agnès Leroy, Martin Ferrand. Applying Riemann solvers to open boundaries in free surface and confined flows. SPHERIC 2016, Jun 2016, Munich, Germany. 〈hal-01702792〉
• Damien Violeau, Benedict Rogers. Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) for free-surface flows: past, present and future. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 2016, 54 (1), pp.1 - 26. 〈10.1080/00221686.2015.1119209〉. 〈hal-01738478〉
• Agnès Leroy, Damien Violeau, Martin Ferrand, Louise Fratter, Antoine Joly. A new open boundary formulation for incompressible SPH. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Elsevier, 2016, 72, pp.2417 - 2432. 〈10.1016/j.camwa.2016.09.008〉. 〈hal-01557021〉
• Damien Violeau, Riadh Ata, Michel Benoit, Antoine Joly, Stéphane Abadie, et al.. A database of validation cases for tsunami numerical modelling. 4th IAHR Europe Congress - Sustainable hydraulics in the era of global change, 2016, Liege Belgium. 〈hal-01390692〉
• Damien Violeau, Agnès Leroy. Optimal time step for incompressible SPH. Journal of Computational Physics, Elsevier, 2015, 288, pp.119-130. 〈10.1016/j.jcp.2015.02.015〉. 〈hal-01763288〉
• Agnès Leroy, Damien Violeau, Martin Ferrand, Antoine Joly. Buoyancy modelling with incompressible SPH for laminar and turbulent flows. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Wiley, 2015, 78 (8), pp.455 - 474. 〈10.1002/fld.4025〉. 〈hal-01557023〉
• Arno Mayrhofer, Martin Ferrand, Christophe Kassiotis, Damien Violeau, François-Xavier Morel. Unified semi-analytical wall boundary conditions in SPH: analytical extension to 3-D. Numerical Algorithms, Springer Verlag, 2015, 68 (1), 〈10.1007/s11075-014-9835-y〉. 〈hal-01318437〉
• Agnès Leroy, Damien Violeau, Martin Ferrand, Christophe Kassiotis. Unified semi-analytical wall boundary conditions applied to 2-D incompressible SPH. Journal of Computational Physics, Elsevier, 2014, 261, pp.106-129. 〈10.1016/j.jcp.2013.12.035〉. 〈hal-00945510〉
• Damien Violeau, Agnès Leroy. On the maximum time step in weakly compressible SPH. Journal of Computational Physics, Elsevier, 2014, 256, pp.388-415. 〈hal-00946833〉
• Martin Ferrand, Dominique Laurence, Benedict Rogers, Damien Violeau, Christophe Kassiotis. Unified semi-analytical wall boundary conditions for inviscid, laminar or turbulent flows in the meshless SPH method. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Wiley, 2013, 71 (476-472), pp.Online. 〈10.1002/fld.3666〉. 〈hal-00691603〉
• Antoine Joly, Frédéric Moulin, Damien Violeau. Diffusion in grid turbulence of isotropic macro-particles using a Lagrangian stochastic method: theory and validation. Physics of Fluids, American Institute of Physics, 2012, 24, pp.103303. 〈10.1063/1.4757653〉. 〈hal-00796088〉
• Antoine Joly, Damien Violeau, Frédéric Moulin, Dominique Astruc, Christophe Kassiotis. Transport of isotropic particles in a partially obstructed channel flow. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 2012, 50 (3), pp.494-505. 〈10.1080/00221686.2012.686457〉. 〈hal-00796099〉
• Martin Ferrand, Damien Violeau. A family of explicit algebraic models for Reynolds stresses and passive scalar fluxes. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 2012, 50 (5), pp.494-505. 〈10.1080/00221686.2012.725995〉. 〈hal-00796103〉
• Christophe Kassiotis, Martin Ferrand, Damien Violeau, Benedict Rogers, Peter Stansby, et al.. Coupling SPH with a 1-D Boussinesq-type wave model. 6th International SPHERIC Workshop, Jun 2011, Hamburg, Germany. pp.241--247, 2011. 〈hal-00601352〉
• Christophe Kassiotis, Benedict Rogers, Peter Stansby, Damien Violeau, Michel Benoit. Un couplage fluide-fluide de type Boussinesq-SPH pour des calculs à proximité de structures hydroliennes. 10e colloque national en calcul des structures, May 2011, Giens, France. pp.7, 2011. 〈hal-00592740〉