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Tribute to an exemplary man: Yves Couder

Table of contents

Preface
Tribute to an exemplary man: Yves Couder
Hommage to the man and his career
Yves Couder (1941–2019): A life in search of the beauty of fluid motion
Hommage to the man and his career
Ramblings (Memoirs) of a scientist
Teaching, arts
The ping-pong ball water cannon
Teaching, arts
Experimental teaching — A tribute to Yves Couder by the example: stroboscopy and fluorescence lifetime with a fan
Teaching, arts
Terra Bulla, the influence of Yves Couder on the emerging domain of arts and physics sciences
Instabilities, patterns
Shape dynamics of rotating polygons on the surface of liquid nitrogen in a Leidenfrost state
Instabilities, patterns
Effect of neutral modes on the order of a transition
Instabilities, patterns
The Kelvin–Helmholtz instability, a useful model for wind-wave generation?
Turbulence
Vortex filaments and quantum turbulence
Turbulence
On three-dimensional bluff body wake symmetry breaking with free-stream turbulence and residual asymmetry
Turbulence
Instability of a swirling bubble ring
Bouncing drops, memory
Wave-particle duality: tribute to the memory of Yves Couder
Bouncing drops, memory
Walking droplets, swimming microbes: on memory in physics and life
Bouncing drops, memory
Hydrodynamic quantum field theory: the free particle
Bouncing drops, memory
Resonant interactions in bouncing droplet chains
Bouncing drops, memory
Walkers in a wave field with memory
Morphogenesis, elasticity
Tip growth in morpho-elasticity
Morphogenesis, elasticity
From growing bubbles and dendrites to biological forms
Morphogenesis, elasticity
Morphogenetic processes: from leaves to embryos
Morphogenesis, elasticity
Morphogenesis through elastic phase separation in a pneumatic surface
Morphogenesis, elasticity
A work on reticulated patterns
Biology and Mechanics
Yves Couder: Putting mechanics back into the shoot apical meristem
Biology and Mechanics
Exploring the relation between apical growth, organ formation and cell wall mechanics across land plant species