Paul Clavin

Paul Clavin
Alma materUniversity of Poitiers
Known forMatalon–Matkowsky–Clavin–Joulin theory
Clavin–Williams formula
Clavin–Garcia equation
Diffusive–thermal instability
Clavin–Liñán model
Scientific career
FieldsCombustion
Physics
InstitutionsAix-Marseille University
Thesis Les Equations cinétiques généralisées dans les systèmes inhomogènes; problèmes de la propagation du chaos moléculaire[1]  (1971)
Doctoral advisorIlya Prigogine

Paul Clavin is a French scientist at Aix-Marseille University, working in the field of combustion and statistical mechanics. He is the founder of Institute for Research on Nonequilibrium Phenomena (IRPHE).[2]

  1. ^ http://archives.umc.edu.dz/handle/123456789/9258[dead link]
  2. ^ Poinsot, Thierry (2017). "Combustion Waves and Fronts in Flows: Flames, Shocks, Detonations, Ablation Fronts and Explosion of Stars Combustion Waves and Fronts in Flows: Flames, Shocks, Detonations, Ablation Fronts and Explosion of Stars, Paul Clavin and Geoff Searby, Cambridge U. Press, 2016, 720 p, $190.00, ISBN 978-1-107-09868-8". Physics Today. 70 (8): 62. Bibcode:2017PhT....70h..62P. doi:10.1063/PT.3.3665.