About

Prof. Pierre-Louis Viollet was graduated in 1974 from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris), and further prepared until 1977 a doctoral thesis at Paris 6 University on the prevision of the length of cooling tower plumes. He has been working with EDF R&D since October 1977, first as a research engineer in charge of turbulence modelling for stratified flows, CFD development and studies in nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics. He was group leader on industrial fluid mechanics, then head of the R&D Laboratory of EDF on Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics in Chatou (LNH). He moved in 1994 to a managerial position as deputy director of the Generation Plants Department of EDF R&D, then as Director of the Power Systems Department. In 2001 he was nominated as Vice- President for R&D Laboratories, and from 2006 to 2010 has been acting as Vice-President for R&D Coordination and Partnership of EDF R&D. Since July 2010 he has been Vice-President in charge of International development and Partnership of EDF R&D. He has supervised the creation of 11 common laboratories involving EDF R&D and French academic partners, as well as a common institute with the University of Karslruhe (Germany) - the European Institute for Energy Research. P.-L. Viollet has been for many years, as a part-time occupation resigned in 2007, Professor of Applied Fluid Mechanics as Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris), where he has been nominated since 2008 as Honorary Professor, and Scientific Committee Member. He wrote three tutorial books in fluid mechanics as well as two books on the history of water and fluid technologies. He has been since the beginning of his carrier a member of IAHR, and he occupied the positions of Division chairman and Council member. P.-L. Viollet is chairman of the scientific committee of "Société Hydrotechnique de France". He has been for three years member of the Technical Committee of the Energy Technologies Institute (UK). He is a member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of UK, and of the Energy Committee of the "Agence Nationale de la Recherche" (France).

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