To find me

Raphaël Loubère DR CNRS, section 41

Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, UMR 5152,
351 cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence, France.

Off.: +33 540 006 147, Perso: +33 675 312 998

raphael.loubere@u-bordeaux.fr

To find my research

Positions

October 2016 -- Now
Mathematical Institute of Bordeaux, Director of Research (DR), Maths-1

January 2006 -- September 2016
Mathematical Institute of Toulouse, In Junior Researcher (CR), Fluids-10


February 2003 -- December 2005
Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, U.S.A.
Postdoct. position in T-7 division


November 2002 -- December 2002
Fundamental Physics Institute, CELIA, France


October 1998 -- October 1999
Military duty, CEA Cesta.

Education 1


October 1999-October 2002 -- PhD Mathematics, University of Bordeaux, France
"A new particle Lagrangian Discontinuous Galerkin type method. Applications to hydrodynamics and laser/plasma interaction problems."
Supervisors R. Abgrall (Univ. Bordeaux, FR) and J. Ovadia (CEA-Cesta)
Reviewers
B. Després (Sorbonne, Paris, FR), J.M. Moschetta (SUPAERO Engineering School, Toulouse, FR)

1992 -- 1998 -- College degrees, University of Bordeaux, France
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Education 2


June 2013 -- Applied Mathematics Habilitation, University of Toulouse, France
"Contribution to the Lagrangian and ALE numerical methods"
Supervisor P. Degond (Toulouse, FR)
Reviewers
A. Barlow (AWE, UK), F. Coquel (Sorbonne, Paris, FR), P. Roe (Univ. of Michigan, U.S.A)
Jury
D. Bouche (CEA, FR), S. Clain (Braga, PT), P. Hild (Toulouse, FR), R. Liska (Czech Techn. Univ. Prague, CZ), P.-H. Maire (CEA Cesta, FR), R. Saurel (Marseille, FR)

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Direction, scientific animation

Direction

Associate director of Math Fédération MARGAUx in Nouvelle-Aquitaine since 2020-


Director. of joint laboratory ANABASE IMB+CEA 2020-


Team leader of "Calcul Scientifique et Modélisation" at IMB (40 permanents) 2022-


Director of CNRS Int. Research Project "Picasso"

of French-Spain-Portugal researchers for simulation of hyperbolic PDEs since 2025.

Conference organisation

SHARK-FV, each May since 2014, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal

PANDA-Hyp - G. Puppo's 65th birthday, Arcachon, France

Model reduction and CFD , a workshop to celebrate the contributions of the actual AI (Angelo Iollo), Sept. 26, Pantelleria, Italy

MULTIMAT conference, Sept. 2026, Biarritz, France

Expert for

Journals: JCOMP, CaF, CMAME, SIAM, IJNMF...

Agency: European commission, French ANR, agencies in It, Cz, Ger...

PhDs: Fr, It, Sp, Ger, Cz, Pt, In, USA...

Conferences: MULTIMAT, HONOM, ECCOMAS, WCCM, NumHyp, HYP...


Domains of Expertise, Key Words

Mathematics

Finite Volume methods, lagrangian systems, Discontinuous Galerkin type methods, Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian, particle methods, remapping/rezoning, MOOD, interface reconstruction, kinetic scheme, AP schemes, high-accurate schemes, AMR

Physics

Hydrodynamics, shock waves, multi-fluid multi-material flows, multi-phase flows, MHD, hypersonic flows, aerodynamics, Inertial Confinement Fusion, laser/plasma interaction problems

Computer science

Linux, Unix, Windows, F90, C/C++, OPEN MP, MPI, Maple, MatLab, Tecplot, Gnuplot, LaTeX, Paraview/VTK, HPC, CUDA

Mentoring

PhDs
  1. Laetitia Carballal-Perdiz 2007-2010 "Multi-scale finite element method", co-mentoring with P. Degond - Today: high school professor
  2. Steven Diot 2009-2012 "MOOD Multidimentional Optimal Order Detection method" co-mentoring with S. Clain - Today: Los Alamos and CEA engineers, now out of research
  3. Adrien Drouillet 2018-2021 "Numerical simulation of fusion/solidification front in corium pool", co-mentoring M. Peybernes, R. Le Tellier (CEA Cadarache) - Today: engineer
  4. Alexandre Bourriaud 2018-2021 "Very high accurate 3D AMR simulation code for general hyperbolic system of balance laws", co-mentoring R. Turpault - Today:
  5. Agnes Chan 2019-2022 "New Riemann solvers and associated schemes for 3D hypersonic flows", co-mentoring P.-H. Maire (CEA) - Today: start-up creator
  6. Benoit Cossart 2021-2024 "Implicit solver for 3D aerodynamics in multidimensional", co-mentoring J.P. Braeunig (CEA) - Today: engineer SSI and CEA
  7. Vincent Delmas 2023-2026 "Genuinely 3D Navier Stokes solver for hypersonic fluid flows", co-mentoring P.-H. Maire (CEA).
  8. Valentin Paré 2024-2027 "Multiphasique flows in pipes of nuclear power plants", co-mentoring F. Daude, P. Lafon (EDF).
  9. Lucas Brelivet 2024-2027 "High order reconstruction for FV and DG scheme on highly distorded mesh ", co-mentoring F. Renac (ONERA).
  10. Adam Surdeau 2025-2028 "Strucutre preserving Discontinuous Galerkin methods", co-mentoring W. Barsukow.
  11. Pierre Valax 2025-2028 "Development of a Finite Volume method on moving grids for hypersonic flows around deformable vehicles", co-mentoring P.-H. Maire.

Postdocs, Long terms Visitors
  1. Jean-Michel Rovarch (September 2008 - May 2010) "Multi-scale finite element method", co-mentoring with P. Degond - Engineer at GTT
  2. Vittorio Rispoli (September 2013 - March 2014) "Fast Kinetic scheme with domain decomposition" co-mentoring with G.Dimarco - Engineer Sophia Antipolis
  3. Walter Boscheri 3 months in 2014 - Visiting PhD for a "Doctor Europaeus" degree. Mentoring in Italy by M.Dumbser - Today: assist prof Ferrara
  4. Ghislain Blanchard (December 2014 - September 2015) "3D very high accurate remapping technique on polyedral meshes" - Engineer ONERA
  5. Matteo Ioriatti 3 months in 2016 - Visiting PhD. Mentoring in Italy by M.Dumbser - Today: engineer in Italy
  6. Ilya Peshkov (September 2016 - September 2019) Long term LabeX researcher - Assistant professor at Trento univ., Italy
  7. Nadir-Alexandre Messai (September 2021 - Janvier 2022) - Postdoc -
  8. Alessia Del Grosso (November 2022 - November 2023) - Postdoc - Inria researcher.
  9. Walter Boscheri (January 2023 - June 2024) - Long term invited professor - Assistant professor at Ferrara univ., Italy, now DR CNRS Savoie-Mont-Blanc university

Masters
  1. Laetita Carballal-Perdiz (2007), co-mentoring with P. Degond
  2. Steven Diot (2009), co-mentoring with S. Clain
  3. Nicolas Mezieres (2015)
  4. Adrien Drouillet (2018), co-mentoring with M. Peybernes
  5. Agnes Chan (2019), co-mentoring with P.-H. Maire
  6. Alexis Tardieu (2021), co-mentoring with P.-H. Maire
  7. Pierre Valax (2025), co-mentoring with P.-H. Maire
  8. Maryia Butsko Cz Rep. Prague (2025), co-mentoring with P. Vachal

Visits in other institutions

  1. Short visit in Milan/Como (IT), June 2025 (3 days)
  2. Short visit in Strasbourg (FR), April 2025 (3 days)
  3. Long visit in Shengzhen, Macao, Xiamen (CH), April 2024 (15 days)
  4. Short visit in Bratislava (SK) and Prague (CZ), March 2024 (5+2 days)
  5. Short visit in Montpellier-Marseille, February 2024 (5 days)
  6. Short visit in Coimbra (PT) / A Coruna (SP), Dec 2023 (3 days)
  7. Short visit in Montpellier-Marseille, July, September 2023 (5 days x 2)
  8. Short visit in Roma La Sapienza, February 2023 (4 days)
  9. Short visit in Turin, Italy, April 2022 (4 days)
  10. Short visit in Strasbourg, February 2022 (2 days)
  11. Short visit in Catania, Italy, October 2021 (5 days)
  12. Short visit in A Coruna, Spain, November 2019 (3 days)
  13. Short CEA Cadarache 10-14 February and 14-17 September 2020 (4+3 days)
  14. Short term visit in Ferrara Mathematical Laboratory, 15-19 April 2019 (5 days)
  15. Short G.Gassner lab in Köln, Germany, 18-22 March 2019 (5 days)
  16. Short Tokyo Tech, Japan 7-13 January 2019 (7 days)
  17. Short Ferrara, Trento, Como, Italy, 12-19 December 2019 (8 days)
  18. Short Univ Malaga, Spain, 3-4 December 2019 (2 days)
  19. Short CVUT Prague, CZ, 15-19 October 2019 (5 days)
  20. Short CEA Cadarache 11-12 July 2018 (2 days)
  21. Short Prague, Czech Republic April 2018 (7 days)
  22. Short R2SN, Marseille, October 2018 (3 days)
  23. Short Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, October 2017 (7 days)
  24. Short in Beijing China, 10-18 July 2017 (8 days)
  25. Short in Zurich Swiss 3 - 6 June 2017 (3 days)
  26. Short in Prague Czech Republic, 28 November - 2 December 2016 (5 days)
  27. Short in Braga Portugal, 17- 19 Oct 2016 (3 days)
  28. Long Trento Italy May-August 2015 (>3 months)
  29. Short Trento, Italy, June 2014 (3 days)
  30. Short Ferrara, Italy, June 2014 (3 days)
  31. Short Trento, Italy, April 2013 (7 days)
  32. Short Prague, Czech Republic January 2012 (7 days)
  33. Short Prague, Czech Republic April 2012 (7 days)
  34. Short Braga, Portugal, October 2012 (7days)
  35. Short Prague, Czech Republic December 2011 (7 days)
  36. Short, Braga March 2011 (7 days)
  37. Short, 'Very high-order MOOD method", Universita Do Minho, Portugal, July 2010 (15 days)
  38. Short "Slide line for hydrodynamics scheme and 3D Lagrangian scheme", Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, June 2011 (14 days) and December 2011 (7 days)
  39. Short, 'Very high-order MOOD method", Universita Do Minho, Portugal, February 2011 (7 days)
  40. Short "Lagrangian schemes with Riemann solvers", Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, November 2009 (7 days)
  41. Short "Numerical schemes for ALE methods", Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, April 2008 (10 days)
  42. Short "Free Lagrange and ALE methods", Los Alamos National Lab, NM, USA, July 2007 (1 month)
  43. Short "Numerical schemes for ALE methods", Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, April 2007 (10 days)
  44. Short "Interface reconstruction in multi-material simulations", Los Alamos National Lab, NM, USA, Octobre 2006 (1 month)
  45. Long Fundamental Physics Institute, Bordeaux, France, Oct-Jan 2002 (3 months)

Participation to conferences

  1. Conference Pink SHARK, Povoa de Varzim Portugal, 1-6 June 2025 - (Organizer)
  2. Picasso Kick-off meeting, Malaga, Spain, 24-26 March 2025 - (Organizer)
  3. LRC Anabase annual meeting, St Médard d'Eyrans, France, 17 January 2025 - (Organizer)
  4. Panda Hyp, Arcachon, France, 10-11 October 2024 - (Organizer)
  5. Conference Gold SHARK, Povoa de Varzim Portugal, 27-31 May 2024 - (Organizer)
  6. Seminars: Xiamen, Macao, Shenzhen, China, April-May 2024 (Invited)
  7. Teaching SUSTECH Shenzhen, China, April 2024 (Invited)
  8. ALGORITMY conference, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, March 2024 (MS organizer) www.math.sk/alg2024
  9. Conference "Recent Advances in Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws", Shenzhen International Center for Mathematics, China, December 9-15, 2023
  10. Conference in honor of Carlos Pares 60th birthday, Malaga, November 2023 (Invited)
  11. Seminar Pau, November 2023
  12. Numerical Aspects of Hyperbolic and Related Problems 2023, Il Palazzone, Cortona, Italy, June 18-24, 2023 - (Invited)
  13. NumHyp Conference, Bordeaux, France, 26-30 June 2023 - (Co-organizer)
  14. Conference Tawny SHARK, Povoa de Varzim Portugal, 22-26 May 2023 - (Organizer)
  15. IACM COMPUTATIONAL FLUIDS CONFERENCE (CFC) Conference, Cannes, France, 25-28 April 2023 - (MS organizer)
  16. Seminar La Sapienza, Roma, Italy, February 2023
  17. Kinetic and hyperbolic equations: modeling, analysis and numerics, Toulouse, France, 12-16 December 2022 - (Invited)
  18. Theoretical, applied, and computational aspects of hyperbolic partial differential equations, Versailles, France, 19-20 October 2022
  19. Essentially hyperbolic problems: unconventional numerics, and applications. A conference in honor of Rémi Abgrall's 61st birthday - Monte Verità, Switzerland, October 9 - 14, 2022 - (Co-organizer)
  20. MULTIMAT, Zürich, Switzerland, August 2022
  21. Conference Green SHARK, Povoa de Varzim Portugal, 23-27 May 2022 - (Organizer)
  22. Journées MARGAUx des Doctorants de la N-Aquitaine, May 2022 - (Co-organizer)
  23. HYPE conference, Malaga, Spain, 20-24 June 2022
  24. HONOM conference, Braga, Portugal, 4-8 April 2022 - (Co-organizer)
  25. Journées CEA GAMNI, Paris 24-25 January 2022
  26. Journées MARGAUx "Calcul Scientifique en Nouvelle-Aquitaine", Arcachon, December 2021 - (Organizer)
  27. Journée ANABASE, Bordeaux, September 2021
  28. NumHYP, Numerical methods for hyperbolic problems, Trento, Italy, July 2021 - (Pleanary lecturer)
  29. Journées de la Fédération MARGAUx, La Rochelle, France, 28-29 June 2021
  30. SMAI Conference, La Grande Motte, France, 22-25 June 2021
  31. Oberwolfach Workshop, Hyperbolic Balance Laws: modeling, analysis, and numerics 28 February - 6 March 2021
  32. WCCM conference, Virtual in Paris January 2021 - (Co-organizer)
  33. CEA GAMNI workshop, IHP Paris 3-4 February 2020
  34. MULTIMAT conference, Trento, Italy, 9-13 September 2019
  35. Conference SHARK, Povoa de Varzim Portugal, 22-26 may 2019 - (Organizer)
  36. Conference HONOM 2019, 01-05 April 2019 Madrid Spain
  37. Workshop "Model coupling" Univ Bordeaux IMB, 31 January, 1st February 2019 - (Organizer)
  38. CEA GAMNI workshop, IHP Paris 29-30 January 2019
  39. Seminar Nice university 15 November 2018
  40. Conference SHARK, Povoa de Varzim Portugal, 21-25 may 2018 - (Organizer)
  41. Numerical Aspects of Hyperb Balance Laws and Related Topics, Ferrara Itally 16-20 April 2018
  42. CEA-GAMNI workshop, IHP Paris, 05-07 février 2018
  43. Seminar Math Depart Lille, France, 07 December 2017
  44. Presentation, numerical seminar at Tokyo Tech October 2017
  45. MULTIMAT conference, Santa Fe, NM, September 2017
  46. Presentation at IAPCM laboratory, Beijing China, July 2017
  47. International conference on multimaterial and multiphase flows, Beijing, China, July 2017
  48. ETSN workshop, Cadarache, 26-29 June 2017
  49. NUMHYP conference, Monte Verita, Swiss 29 May-2 June 2017
  50. Conference SHARK, Ofir Portugal, 15-19 may 2017
  51. HONOM 2017, Stuttgart Germany, 27-31 march 2017
  52. CEA GAMN workshop in IHP Paris 30-31-1 January 2017
  53. Seminar in Montpellier, February the 21st, 2017
  54. Conference in Honor of 65th irthday TToro, Trento, Italy, November 2nd - 4th, 2016
  55. ETSN, Cadarache, France, 27-30 juin 2016
  56. ECMI conference, Santiago de compostela, Spain, 13-17 June 2016
  57. Séminaire Pau 3 mai 2016
  58. Great White SHARK 3, Ofir Portugal 23-27 May 2016
  59. Workshop Braga (Portugal) - A coruna (Spain) at university A coruna, Spain, 2-4 February 2016
  60. CEA-GAMNI workshop, IHP Paris, 25-26 janvier 2016
  61. Hyperbolic conference 50th birthday of the mathematical department, Ferrara, Italy, december 2015
  62. MULTIMAT'15, Wurzburg, Germany September 2015
  63. SHARK-FV II conference, Ofir, Portugal, May 2015
  64. HONOM conference, 16-20 March 2015, Trento, Italy
  65. Seminar IMFT, Toulouse, February 2015
  66. Workshop on behalf of the 60th birthday of Claus-Dieter Munz5-7 November 2014, Stuttgart, Germany
  67. Trends in Numerical and Physical Modeling for Industrial Multiphase Flows Cargèse, Corsica France, 13-17 october 2014
  68. ECCOMAS annual congress, Barcelona, Spain July 2014 - Minisymposium organizer
  69. SHARK-FV conference, Ofir, Portugal, May 2014
  70. Séminaire IRMAR Rennes 27 février 2014
  71. Séminaire IUSTI Marseille 21-22 novembre 2013
  72. Séminaire IMB Bordeaux 17-18 octobre 2013
  73. Séminaire Nice 3 octobre 2013
  74. MULTIMAT'13, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2-6 September 2013
  75. Workshop CEA, Fréjus, France, 1-7 July 2013
  76. EUROPEAN WORKSHOP on High Order Nonlinear Numerical Methods for Evolutionary PDEs (HONOM 2013) HONOM Bordeaux 18-22 arch 2013
  77. Trends in Numerical and Physical Modeling for Industrial Multiphase Flows Cargèse, Corsica France, September, 2012
  78. 6th EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN APPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (ECCOMAS 2012), enne, Autriche Septembre 2012 "Add-ons to the compatible staggered Lagrangian scheme and other unspoken details"
  79. Workshop CEA, Roscoff, France, 2-5 Juillet 2012
  80. 3rd International EULAG Workshop held 25th -28th June 2012 in Loughborough UK http://wwwmmmucaredu/eulag/
  81. MULTIMAT 2011, Arcachon, France, September 2011 (Organizer)
  82. Finite Volume Method for Complex Application FVCA 6, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2011
  83. SIAM Computational Science and Engineering, Reno, USA, February 28th - March 4th, 2011
  84. Workshop on "High-order numerical finite volumes" University Do Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal, February 2011
  85. Trends in Numerical and Physical Modeling for Industrial Multiphase Flows Cargèse, Corsica France, September 13-17, 2010
  86. ICCS 2010 International Conference in Computational Physics, Amsterdam, The Nederlands May 31st - June 2nd, 2010 --- Minisymposium ganizer "2nd Workshop on New Trends in Numerical Methods for Multi-Material Compressible Fluid Flows"
  87. A second-order compatible staggered Lagrangian hydrodynamics scheme using a cell-centered multidimensional approximate Riemann solver
  88. ICFD 2010 Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics, Reading, UK, April 12th - 15th, 2010
  89. family of staggered Lagrangian hydrodynamics schemes based on cell-centered Riemann solver
  90. NUMERICAL METHODS for MULTI-MATERIAL FLUIDS and STRUCTURES, Pavia Italy, September 7-10 2009
  91. The eighth European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, ENUMATH 2009, Uppsala Sweden June 29 - July 3, 09
  92. SIAM Annual meeting, San Diego CA, July 7-11, 2008
  93. 5th International Symposium on Finite Volumes for Complex Applications - Problems and Perspectives - Aussois, France, June 08-13, 2008
  94. 20ème séminaire de mécanique des fluides CEA-GAMNI, Institut Henri Poincare Pairs France, January 28-29, 2008
  95. Trends in Numerical and Physical Modeling for Industrial Multiphase Flows Cargèse, Corsica France, September 17-21, 2007
  96. 9th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 23-26 2007
  97. Numerical methods for multi-material fluid flows Czech Technical University in Prague, September 10 - 14, 2007
  98. Europe-India T2B conference, Paris, France, May 2007
  99. Modeling and Numerical Analysis seminar Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, October 2006
  100. Workshop "Lagrangian-ALE schemes and applications to plasma physics", Prague, Czech Republik, May 2006
  101. Numerical Analysis Seminar (CEA-DIF), Paris, Mai 2006
  102. International symposium on Voronoi diagrams in science and engineering, Seoul, South Korea, October 10-13 2005
  103. Numerical methods for multi-material compressible fluid flows 2, Oxford, UK, September 5-8 2005,
  104. SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Orlando, Florida USA, Feb 12-15 2005
  105. SIAM Annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA July 12-16 2004
  106. News advances for shock wave processes and hydrocodes, College Park, MA, USA, Avril 2004
  107. 9th Copper Mountain conference on iterative methods, Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA, March 28 - April 2004
  108. 7th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, July 27-31 2003
  109. Numerical methods for multi-material compressible fluid flows 1, Paris, France, Sept 23-25 2002
  110. Numerical Analysis seminar Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, August 2002
  111. SIAM Annual meeting, San Diego, California, USA July 9-13 2001 CANUM 2000 Numerical Analysis Congress, Vieux Boucau, France, June 5-9 2000
  112. Godunov Methods: theory and applications, Oxford, UK, October 1999