My research focus on the mechanics and flow of complex materials between fluid and solid, such as particulate media (granular materials, yield-stress fluid, dense suspensions) or biological systems (plants).
K.H. Jensen, Y. Forterre (Eds) (2022) “Soft Matter in Plants: from Biophysics to Biomimetics”. Royal Society of Chemistry Book, 244 pages RSC editor link
Chapter 1. Y. Forterre “Basic soft matter for plants” pdf
S. Athani, B. Metzger, Y. Forterre, R. Mari “Transient flows and migration in granular suspensions: Key role of Reynolds-like dilatancy” J. Fluid Mech. 949 A9 (2022) pdf
N. Levernier, O. Pouliquen, Y. Forterre “An integrative model of plant gravitropism linking statoliths position and auxin transport” Front. Plant Sci. 12 651928 (2021) pdf
H. Perrin, M. Wyart, B. Metzger, Y. Forterre “Nonlocal Effects Reflect the Jamming Criticality in Frictionless Granular Flows Down Inclines” Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 228002 (2021) pdf
B. Darbois Texier, H. Lhuissier, Y. Forterre, B. Metzger “Surface-wave instability without inertia in shear-thickening suspensions” Communication Physics 3, 232 (2020) pdf
CNRS Press release and focus in NatureReviewPhysics
L. Jørgensen, Y. Forterre, H. Lhuissier “Deformation upon impact of a concentrated suspension drop” J. Fluid Mech. 896, R2 (2020) pdf
C. Clavaud, B. Metzger, Y. Forterre “The Darcytron: a pressure-imposed device to probe the frictional transition in shear-thickening suspensions” Journal of Rheology 64, 395 (2020); doi: 10.1122/1.5135370 pdf
A. Bérut, O. Pouliquen, Y. Forterre “Brownian granular flows down heaps” Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 248005 (2019) pdf
H. Perrin, C. Clavaud, M. Wyart, B. Metzger, Y. Forterre “Interparticle Friction Leads to Nonmonotonic Flow Curves and Hysteresis in Viscous Suspensions” Phys. Rev. X 031027 (2019) pdf
see also Focus story in Physics: “Friction, Not Inertia, Controls Avalanches” https://physics.aps.org/articles/v12/92
H. Chauvet, B. Moulia, V. Legué, Y. Forterre, O. Pouliquen “Revealing the hierarchy of processes and time-scales that control the tropic response of shoots to gravi-stimulations” J. Exp. Bot. 70, 1955-1967 (2019) pdf
A. Bérut, H. Chauvet, V. Legué, B. Moulia, O. Pouliquen, Y. Forterre. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115, 5123-5128 (2018) pdf
CNRS Press release: www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/5583.htm (English, French)
J-F. Louf, G. Guéna, E. Badel, Y. Forterre. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114, 11034-11039 (2017) pdf
C. Clavaud, A. Bérut, B. Metzger, Y. Forterre. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114, 5147-5152 (2017) pdf
CNRS Press release and article in Sciences et Avenir
Yoël Forterre 