Franck Pigeonneau

Unité mixte Saint-Gobain/CNRS "Surface du Verre et Interfaces"
Saint-Gobain Recherche
39 quai Lucien Lefranc
93303 Aubervilliers Cedex
0033 (0)1.48.39.59.99
franck.pigeonneau AT saint-gobain.com

Research interests and activities

I am curently working in the Heterogeneous reactive materials team of the lab since June 2007 after six years in Glass Melting department of Saint-Gobain Recherche.

My background is in Fluid mechanics, heat transfert and numerical analysis.

In the Heterogeneous reactive materials team, I work mainly on

• Mass transfer arround bubble rising in molten glass,
• Modelling of oxidation-reduction reactions,
• Population balance equation to describe a bubble cloud dispersed in molten glass,
• Foam drainage and stability,
• Mixing of viscous fluid,
• Natural convection in glass furnaces.

Publications

Articles

• F. Feuillebois, A. Lasek, P. Creismeas, F. Pigeonneau, and A. Szaniawski. Freezing of a subcooled liquid droplet. J. Coll. Interface Science, 169 :90–102, 1995.

• F. Pigeonneau and F. Feuillebois. Collision and size evolution of drops in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. J. Aerosol Sci., 29 :S1279–S1280, 1998.

• F. Pigeonneau and F. Feuillebois. Drag forces on two drops embedded in a general linear flow field. Z. Angew. Math. Mech., 78(S2) :S665–S666, 1998.

• F. Pigeonneau and F. Feuillebois. Collision of drops with inertia effects in strongly sheared linear flow fields. J. Fluid Mech., 455 :359–386, 2002.

• J.-M. Flesselles and F. Pigeonneau. Kinematic regimes of convection at hight Prandtl number in a shallow cavity. C. R. Mécanique, 332 :783–788, 2004.

• F. Pigeonneau and F. Feuillebois. Test-case no 16 : Impact of a drop on a thin film of the same liquid (pe,pa). Multiphase Science and Technology, 16(1-3) :105–109, 2004.

• F. Pigeonneau and F. Feuillebois. Test-case no 23 : Relative trajectories and collision of two drops in a simple shear flow (pa). Multiphase Science and Technology, 16(1-3) :133–139, 2004.

• F. Pigeonneau. Coupled modelling of redox reactions and glass melt fining processes. Glass Technol. : Eur. J. Glass Sci. Technol. A, 48(2) :66–72, 2007.

• F. Pigeonneau. Mass transfer of rising bubble in molten glass with instantaneous oxidation-reduction reaction. Part 1 : Determination of Sherwood number. Chem. Eng. Sci., in preparation, 2008.

• F. Pigeonneau and J.-M. Flesselles. Natural convection of a high Prandtl number fluid in a long cavity heated from above. J. Fluid Mech., in preparation, 2008.

• F. Pigeonneau, D. Martin, and O. Mario. Mass transfer of rising bubble in molten glass with instantaneous oxidation-reduction reaction. Part 2 : Shrinkage of oxygen bubble. Chem. Eng. Sci., in preparation, 2008.

• A. Ponsich, C. Azzaro-Pantel, S. Domenech, L. Pibouleau, and F. Pigeonneau. A systemic approach for glass manufacturing process modelling. Chem. Eng. Process., submit, 2008.

Conference proceedings

• F. Pigeonneau and F. Feuillebois. Détermination des forces d’interactions sur deux gouttes de rayons différents dans un écoulement linéaire quelconque. In 12ème Journée d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Aérosols, pages 51–56, Paris, 4 et 5 décembre 1996.

• F. Pigeonneau and F. Feuillebois. Effect of inertia of droplets on collision efficiency in a linear flow field. In 3rd European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Göttingen, 15-18 september 1997.

• F. Pigeonneau and F. Feuillebois. Evolution du spectre de gouttes en écoulement turbulent homogène et isotrope. In 13ème Congrés Etudes et de Recherche sur les Aérosols, pages 71–76, Paris, 2-3 décembre 1997.

• F. Pigeonneau and F. Feuillebois. Trajectoires et collision de gouttes dans un écoulement à taux de d´eformation constant. In 13ème Congrès Fran¸cais de Mécanique, volume 1, pages 305–308, Poitiers-Futuroscope, 1-5 septembre 1997.

• F. Pigeonneau, D. Guffond, and F. Feuillebois. Theoretical study of the drizzle formation by coalescence. In 23rd General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Nice, 20-24 April 1998.

• F. Dabbene, S. Gounand, J. P. Magnaud, F. Pigeonneau, and E. Studer. Modelling and simulation of convection flows with large temperature difference : a benchmark problem for low mach number solvers. In 12ème séminaire de mécanique des fluides numérique, CEA Saclay, 25-27 janvier 2000.

• X. Chavanne, J.-M. Flesselles, and F. Pigeonneau. Bubbling law in a glass furnace. In Sixth European Society of Glass Science and Technology Conference, Montpellier, France, June 2002.

• F. Pigeonneau and P. G. Ferreira. A physicist's approach of batch blanket modelling. In Sixth European Society of Glass Science and Technology Conference, Montpellier, France, June 2002.

• F. Pigeonneau and J.-M. Flesselles. Convection laws for glass furnaces revisited. In Sixth European Society of Glass Science and Technology Conference, Montpellier, France, June, 2-6 2002.

• F. Lopépé, J.-M. Flesselles, and F. Pigeonneau. Train of bubbles in a viscous fluid. In XX International Congress on Glass, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 27th-Oct. 1st 2004.

• F. Pigeonneau. Utilisation des distributions d’exposants de Liapounoff pour quantifier l’activité des bouillonneurs dans un four verrier. In Congrès Général de la Société Française de Physique, Lille, France, 29 août-2 septembre 2005.

• F. Pigeonneau. Coupled modelling of redox and fining processes with application to an experimental device. In Eighth European Society of Glass Science and Technology Conference, Sunderland, UK, 10-14 September 2006.

• N. McDonald and F. Pigeonneau. In-situ measurements of the effect of sulphate on bubble growth rate and gas emissions during fining. In XXIst International Congress on Glass, Strasbourg, France, July, 1-6 2007.

• F. Pigeonneau. Convection and heat transfer laws in a top-heated shallow bidimensional cavity. In XXIst International Congress on Glass, Strasbourg, France, July, 1-6 2007.

• V. Vincent, O. Caballina, F. Pigeonneau, and M. Souhar. Experimental study of the hydrodynamic interactions between two spherical bubbles in a solid-body rotation flow. In International Conference on Multiphase Flow, Leipzig, Germany, July, 9-13 2007.