CYPRIEN SOULAINE
MODELING AND SIMULATION
Welcome to my website
Here you will find all sorts of information about my work as a Research Scientist and Engineer and some examples of the projects I have been involved with. I am an Associate Scientist at CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, working at the Institute of Earth Sciences of Orléans (ISTO) where I am leading the Porous Media Research Group. I have more than 10 years of experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics in both academia and industry. My interest in fluid mechanics is very broad including flow and transport in porous media, multiphase flow, complex and non-Newtonian flow, and superfluid. I am considering a wide variety of scales ranging from nanometers to kilometers. I am always eager to solve new challenging problems. Feel free to contact me for more information. Enjoy your visit.
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LATEST NEWS:
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2026, Jan 18: Our new paper on "Permeability impairment by hydrodynamic pore bridging: probabilistic pore-network modelling and microfluidic experiments" is now accepted for publication in International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences!
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2025, Nov 6: Congratulations to Nassim Cheikh who get the best poster award from the France Interpore Chapter! Nassim is working on modelling particulate transport and retention in porous media.
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2025, Nov 4: We were delighted to host and organized the "17ème Journée d'Etude des Milieux Poreux" in Orléans by the France Interpore Chapter. Thanks to the 180 participants who during these 3 days share their new findings!
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2025, Oct 20: Laurez Maya Fogouang new paper "Numerical Investigation and Stochastic Modeling of Particle Bridging Under Various Flow, Pore, and Particle Properties" is now accepted in Advances in Water Resources! Congratulations Laurez!
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2025, Sep 1: I'll be visiting Pr Ian Bourg at Princeton University until June 30, 2026.
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2025, July 20: Nathan Bernard's first paper "Impact of wetting films on the stability of two-phase flow in porous media: a pore-doublet approach" is now published in Advances in Water Resources! Congratulations Nathan!
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2025, Jun 14: Walid Okaybi 's paper "Progressive colloidal clogging mechanism by dendritic build-up in porous media." is published in Soft Matter. Check out the open-access article here. Congratulations Walid!
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RESEARCH
My work focuses on fluid flow and transport in porous media from the pore to the reservoir scale. I develop multi-scale mathematical models and computational tools. My research on porous media applies to very different domains such as chemical engineering, nuclear engineering, and subsurface engineering.
TEACHING
I am teaching Computational Fluid Dynamics using the open-source software OpenFOAM since 2009. Today, more than two hundred students, Researchers, Engineers in both academia and industry attended my classes. Feel free to contact me if you need on-site training.
At Stanford University, I am also giving lectures on fluid flow at the pore-scale.
