ERC project THEIA

Publications associated with THEIA

This bibliography includes 23 peer-reviewed scientific publications relevant to THEIA: 20 articles in the main project bibliography, two additional collaborative papers explicitly acknowledging ERC THEIA support, and one earlier methodological paper published in 2020, before the project began.

Several articles accepted during THEIA were published after the project’s completion on 31 August 2026.

2026

• Magnetohydrodynamic drag on an oscillating sphere in a rotating spherical cavity
  D. Cébron, P. Personnettaz. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1045, A13 (2026). Author manuscript / repository. Published online 15 October 2026; accepted during THEIA.

• Semi-convection in rotating spherical shells: flows, layers and dynamos
  P. Pružina, N. Schaeffer, D. Cébron. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1044, A1 (2026). Author manuscript / repository. Accepted 22 July 2026; published online 30 September 2026.

• Topographic drag in rapidly rotating fluids
  V. Giraud, J. Noir, D. Cébron, J. Vidal, R. Monville. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1040, A14 (2026).

• Did lunar tides sustain the early Earth’s dynamo?
  J. Vidal, D. Cébron. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience 358 (G1), 1–26 (2026). Author manuscript / repository.

• Ohmic and viscous damping of inner core translational oscillations
  P. Personnettaz, D. Cébron, N. Schaeffer, R. Deguen, M. Mandea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 690, 120156 (2026). Data and figure scripts.

• The spectrum of the Poincaré operator in an ellipsoid
  Y. Colin de Verdière, J. Vidal. Journal of Spectral Theory 16 (3), 751–776 (2026). Author manuscript / repository. First published online in 2025; assigned to volume 16 (2026).

2026 — Other collaborative publications acknowledging THEIA support

The two articles below explicitly acknowledge ERC THEIA (grant agreement No. 847433) in support of Paolo Personnettaz. They concern related collaborations and are distinguished from the core scientific bibliography above. The Jault et al. article also acknowledges ERC GRACEFUL (grant No. 855677).

• Viscous and magnetic boundary layers at the top of the core in geodynamo models
  D. Jault, P. Personnettaz, N. Gillet, T. Lepage, N. Schaeffer. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 131 (7), e2025JB033648 (2026). Data and code. Published 2 July 2026. THEIA support acknowledged for P. Personnettaz (jointly with GRACEFUL).

• Effect of split endcaps on the flow dynamics in a tall Taylor-Couette setup
  A. Mishra, P. Personnettaz, G. Mamatsashvili, V. Galindo, F. Stefani. Physical Review Fluids 11, 014606 (2026). Published 26 January 2026. THEIA support acknowledged for P. Personnettaz; collaborative study of endcap effects in Taylor–Couette flow.

2025

• Planetary dynamos driven by semi-convection in stratified layers
  P. Pružina, D. Cébron, N. Schaeffer. Astronomy & Astrophysics 703, A135 (2025). Author manuscript / repository.

• Modal acoustic velocimetry in libration-driven flows
  H.-C. Nataf, S. Su, P. Roux, P. Cardin, D. Cébron, Y. Do. Experiments in Fluids 66 (10), 185 (2025). Author manuscript / repository. See also the publisher correction, Experiments in Fluids 66, 213 (2025) (not counted as a separate research article).

• Topographic Drag at the Core-Mantle Interface
  R. Monville, D. Cébron, D. Jault. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 130 (4), e2024JB029770 (2025). Author manuscript / repository.

2024

• Geophysical flows over topography, a playground for laboratory experiments
  J. Vidal, J. Noir, D. Cébron, F. Burmann, R. Monville, V. Giraud, Y. Charles. Comptes Rendus. Physique 25 (S3), 183–234 (2024). Review. Author manuscript / repository. Volume year 2024; published online in 2025.

• Compaction-Driven Convection in the Growing Inner Core
  K. W. Lim, R. Deguen, D. Cébron, A. Schulze, M. Mandea. Geophysical Research Letters 51 (23), e2024GL110749 (2024). Author manuscript / repository.

• Inertia-gravity waves in geophysical vortices
  J. Vidal, Y. Colin de Verdière. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 480 (2285), 20230789 (2024).

2023

• MHz free electron laser x-ray diffraction and modeling of pulsed laser heated diamond anvil cell
  N. Jaisle, D. Cébron, Z. Konôpková, et al. Journal of Applied Physics 134 (9), 095904 (2023).

• Precession-driven flows in stress-free ellipsoids
  J. Vidal, D. Cébron. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 954, A5 (2023). Author manuscript / repository. First published online 23 December 2022.

2022

• Sustaining Earth’s magnetic dynamo
  M. Landeau, A. Fournier, H.-C. Nataf, D. Cébron, N. Schaeffer. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 3 (4), 255–269 (2022). Review.

• Core Eigenmodes and their Impact on the Earth’s Rotation
  S. A. Triana, M. Dumberry, D. Cébron, J. Vidal, A. Trinh, F. Gerick, J. Rekier. Surveys in Geophysics 43 (1), 107–148 (2022). Review. First published online 10 November 2021.

2021

• Acoustic modes of rapidly rotating ellipsoids subject to centrifugal gravity
  J. Vidal, D. Cébron. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 150 (2), 1467–1478 (2021). Author manuscript / repository.

• Kinematic dynamos in triaxial ellipsoids
  J. Vidal, D. Cébron. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 477 (2252), 20210252 (2021). Author manuscript / repository.

• The effects of a Robin boundary condition on thermal convection in a rotating spherical shell
  T. T. Clarté, N. Schaeffer, S. Labrosse, J. Vidal. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 918, A36 (2021). Author manuscript / repository.

• Mean zonal flows induced by weak mechanical forcings in rotating spheroids
  D. Cébron, J. Vidal, N. Schaeffer, A. Borderies, A. Sauret. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 916, A39 (2021). Author manuscript / repository.

Earlier methodological foundation (before the ERC grant)

• Acoustic and inertial modes in planetary-like rotating ellipsoids
  J. Vidal, D. Cébron. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 476 (2239), 20200131 (2020). Published before the start of THEIA; included as a methodological precursor, not as an output funded by the ERC grant. Author manuscript.

The THEIA project received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 847433).

See the project homepage for the main scientific results and the Numerics page for the associated software.