François Rincon

CNRS research staff, Ecology and Astrophysics

Station d'Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale
2 route du CNRS - 09200 Moulis - FRANCE

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Habilitation a diriger des recherches (HDR) et these (PhD) (in French)

• "Instabilities, turbulence and magnetic fields in astrophysical plasmas and fluids", F. Rincon, Université de Toulouse (2021).
• "Large-scale dynamics of convection in the solar photosphere", F. Rincon, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III (2004).

Review papers

• "Dynamo theories", F. Rincon, J. Plasma. Phys., 85, 205850401 (2019). [167 pages, Les Houches lecture notes/review].
• "The Sun's supergranulation", F. Rincon and M. Rieutord, Living Rev. Solar Phys., 15, 6 (2018). [extensive update of 2010 review].

Viewpoints and commentaries

• "Turbulence in Collisionless Cosmic Plasmas.", F. Rincon, Physics (American Physical Society magazine) 16, 68 (2023).
• "The Sun's supergranulation", F. Rincon and M. Rieutord, Living Rev. Solar Phys., 15, 6 (2018). [extensive update of 2010 review].

Peer-reviewed journals (pdf version)

• "Ultimate large-Rm regime of the solar dynamo", F. Rincon, Astron. & Astrophys Lett. 707, L3 (2026).
• "Observational characterisation of large-scale transport and horizontal turbulent diffusivity in the quiet Sun", F. Rincon, P. Barrere, T. Roudier, Astron. & Astrophys. 696, A143 (2025).
• "Non-linear saturation and energy transport in global simula- tions of magneto-thermal turbulence in the stratified intracluster medium", J. Kempf, F. Rincon, Astron. & Astrophys. 694, A25 (2025).
• "Magnetorotational dynamo can generate large-scale vertical magnetic fields in 3D GRMHD simulations of accreting black hole", J. Jacquemin-Ide, F. Rincon, A. Tchekhovskoy, M. Liska, MNRAS 532, 1522 (2024).
• "Dynamical properties and detectability of the magneto-thermal instability in the intracluster medium", J. Kempf, F. Rincon, N. Clerc, Astron. Astrophys 680, A24 (2023).
"Helical turbulent nonlinear dynamo at large magnetic Reynolds numbers", F. Rincon, Phys. Rev. Fluids, 6, L121701 (2021).
• "Dynamo theories", F. Rincon, J. Plasma. Phys., 85, 205850401 (2019). [167 pages, Les Houches lecture notes/review].
• "The Sun's supergranulation", F. Rincon and M. Rieutord, Living Rev. Solar Phys., 15, 6 (2018). [extensive update of 2010 review].
• "Supergranulation and multiscale flows in the solar photosphere: Global observations vs. a theory of anisotropic turbulent convection", F. Rincon, T. Roudier, A. A. Schekochihin, M. Rieutord, Astron. Astrophys. 599, A69 (2017).
• "Magnetorotational dynamo chimeras. The missing link to turbulent accretion disk dynamo models ?", A. Riols, F. Rincon, C. Cossu, G. Lesur, G. I. Ogilvie, P.-Y. Longaretti, Astron. Astrophys. 598, A87 (2017).
• "Subproton-scale cascades in solar wind turbulence: driven hybrid-kinetic simulations", S. S. Cerri, F. Califano, F. Jenko, D. Told, F. Rincon, ApJ Letters 822, L12 (2016).
• "Turbulent dynamo in a collisionless plasma", F. Rincon, F. Califano, A. A. Schekochihin, F. Valentini, PNAS 113, 3950 (2016).
• "Travelling-wave solutions bifurcating from relative periodic orbits in plane Poiseuille flow", S. Rawat, C. Cossu, F. Rincon, Comptes Rendus Mécanique 344, 448 (2016).
• "On the self-sustained nature of large-scale motions in turbulent Couette flow", S. Rawat, C. Cossu, Y. Hwang, F. Rincon, J. Fluid Mech. 782, 515 (2015).
• "Nonlinear mirror instability", F. Rincon, A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, MNRAS 447, L45 (2015).
• "Dissipative effects on the sustainement of a magnetorotational dynamo in Keplerian shear flow", A. Riols, F. Rincon, C. Cossu, G. Lesur, P.-Y. Longaretti, G. I. Ogilvie, Astron. Astrophys. 575, A14 (2015).
• "Relative periodic orbits in plane Poiseuille flow", S. Rawat, C. Cossu, F. Rincon, Comptes Rendus Mécanique 342, 485 (2014).
• "Global bifurcations to subcritical magnetorotational dynamo action in Keplerian shear flow", A. Riols, F. Rincon, C. Cossu, G. Lesur, P.-Y. Longaretti, G. I. Ogilvie, J. Herault, J. Fluid Mech. 731, 1 (2013).
• "Periodic magnetorotational dynamo action as a prototype of nonlinear magnetic field generation in shear flows", J. Herault, F. Rincon, C. Cossu, G. Lesur, G. I. Ogilvie, P.-Y. Longaretti, Phys. Rev. E 84, 036321 (2011).
• "A nonlinear theory of the parallel firehose and gyrothermal instabilities in a weakly collisional plasma", M. S. Rosin, A. A. Schekochihin, F. Rincon, S. C. Cowley, MNRAS 413, 7 (2011).
• "The Sun's supergranulation", M. Rieutord and F. Rincon, Living Rev. Solar Phys., 7, 2 (2010).
• "Magnetofluid dynamics of magnetized cosmic plasma: firehose and gyrothermal instabilities", A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, F. Rincon, M. S. Rosin, MNRAS 405, 291 (2010).
• "On the power spectrum of solar surface flows", M. Rieutord, T. Roudier, F. Rincon, J. M. Malherbe, N. Meunier, T. Berger, and Z. Frank, Astron. Astrophys. 512(A4), 11 (2010).
• "Mesoscale dynamics on the Sun's surface from HINODE observations", T. Roudier, M. Rieutord, D. Brito, F. Rincon, J. M. Malherbe, N. Meunier, T. Berger, and Z. Frank , Astron. Astrophys. 495, 945 (2009).
• "Numerical experiments on dynamo action in sheared and rotating turbulence", T. A. Yousef, T. Heinemann, F. Rincon, A. A. Schekochihin, N. Kleeorin, I. Rogachevskii, S. C. Cowley and J. C. Mc Williams, Astron. Nach. 329(7), 737 (2008).
• "Two-dimensional nonlinear plane Poiseuille-Couette flow homotopy revisited", U. Ehrenstein, M. Nagata and F. Rincon, Phys. Fluids 20, 064103 (2008).
• "Subcritical dynamos in shear flows", F. Rincon , G. I. Ogilvie, M. R. E. Proctor and C. Cossu, Astron. Nach. 329(7), 750 (2008).
• "Weak magnetic fields in Ap/Bp stars: Evidence for a dipole field lower limit and a tentative interpretation of the magnetic dichotomy, M. Auriere et al., Astron. Astrophys. 475, 1053 (2007).
• "On the existence of two-dimensional nonlinear steady states in plane Couette flow", F. Rincon, Phys. Fluids 19(7), 074105 (2007).
• "Self-sustaining nonlinear dynamo process in Keplerian shear flows", F. Rincon, G. I. Ogilvie and M. R. E. Proctor, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 254502 (2007).
• "On self-sustaining processes in Rayleigh-stable rotating plane Couette flows and subcritical transition to turbulence in accretion disks", F. Rincon, G. I. Ogilvie and C. Cossu, Astron. Astrophys. 463, 817 (2007).
• "Exact scaling laws and the local structure of isotropic MHD turbulence", T. Yousef, F. Rincon and A. Schekochihin, J. Fluid Mech. 575, 111 (2007).
• "Anisotropy, inhomogeneity and inertial-range scalings in turbulent convection", F. Rincon, J. Fluid Mech. 563, 43 (2006).
• "Mesoscale flows in large aspect ratio simulations of turbulent compressible convection", F. Rincon, F. Lignières, M. Rieutord, Astron. Astrophys. 430, L57 (2005).
• "Oscillations of magnetic stars: II. Axisymmetric toroidal and non-axisymmetric shear Alfvén modes in a spherical shell", D.Reese, F. Rincon, M. Rieutord, Astron. Astrophys. 427, 279 (2004).
• "Oscillations of magnetic stars: I. Axisymmetric shear Alfvén modes of a spherical shell in a dipolar magnetic field", F. Rincon, M. Rieutord, Astron. Astrophys. 398, 663 (2003).
• "On mesogranulation, network formation and supergranulation", M. Rieutord, T. Roudier, J.-M. Malherbe, F. Rincon, Astron. Astrophys. 357, 1063 (2000).