PhD candidate in interfacial fluid mechanics
Ilies Haouche
IEMN — University of Lille · AIMAN-FILMS group
Numerical simulation and stability analysis of interfacial flows: surfactant transport, Marangoni effects and interfacial instabilities.
About
I am a PhD candidate in interfacial fluid mechanics at IEMN (University of Lille), within the AIMAN-FILMS group, under the supervision of Prof. Michael Baudoin. My research focuses on high-fidelity numerical simulation and stability analysis of multiphase flows.
I develop research-level numerical methods for soluble and insoluble surfactant transport at fluid interfaces — coupled Volume-of-Fluid / Phase-Field schemes, adsorption-desorption kinetics and Marangoni effects — mainly using the open-source solver Basilisk. I am also interested in the linear stability analysis of two- and three-interface flows (multi-interface Navier-Stokes models, Helmholtz decomposition).
During my PhD I carried out research stays at IIT Bombay (Prof. Ratul Dasgupta) and IIT Roorkee (Prof. Palas Kumar Farsoiya), and presented my work at several international conferences. My PhD ends in October 2026: I am open to opportunities in computational fluid dynamics, interfacial flows and instability analysis.
Research interests
Recent publications
View all- 2026
Orbiting, colliding, and merging liquid lenses on a soap film: Toward gravitational analogs
Jean-Paul Martischang, Benjamin Reichert, Ilies Haouche, Germain Rousseaux, Alexis Duchesne, Michael Baudoin
PNAS Nexus, vol. 5, issue 4, article 79 (April 2026)
- 2026
A hybrid Volume-of-Fluid and Phase-Field method for Direct Numerical Simulations of soluble surfactant-laden interfacial flows
Ilies Haouche, Benjamin Reichert, Michael Baudoin, Palas Kumar Farsoiya
Preprint — submitted to Journal of Computational Physics (April 2026)
- 2026
Linear stability analysis of two-interface multiphase interfacial flows
Ilies Haouche, Nikhil Yewale, Ratul Dasgupta
In preparation — Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Recent talks
View all- Dec 2026
Surfactant transports for high Péclet number
IRN Hydrobio 2026 — IIT Kharagpur · Kharagpur, Inde
- Oct 2026
Dynamics and instability of a rising bubble with soluble surfactants at high Péclet number
JMC 2026 — Université de Toulouse · Toulouse, France
- Jun 2026
Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the presence of surfactants: a theoretical and numerical study using a coupled VOF/diffuse-interface method
BIFD 2026 — University of L'Aquila · L'Aquila, Italie