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Enhancing Flood Resilience: Sediment Management in Le Bez Torrent
Giovanni De Cesare, Azin Amini, Romain Nathan Hippolyte Merlin Van Mol
In the canton of Bern, Switzerland, the “Le Bez” torrent is known for its flash floods, causing sediment and wood debris buildup in Villeret village settled on the alluvial fan. To mitigate this issue, a sediment/wood trap system is being implemented upstr ...
Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT)2023Ultrasonic sediment flux profiling with ACVP Technology: application to sediment-laden Boundary Layer flows
Giovanni De Cesare, David Hurther
Sediment transport in geophysical boundary layer flows has relevance to a broad spectrum of sciences ranging from the physical and chemical, to the biological, ecological and geological. Advances in sediment transport modelling and prediction strongly suff ...
2023Harvesting large astronomical data archives for space debris observations
Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Stephan Hellmich, Elisabeth Andréa Cécile Rachith, Belén Yu Irureta-Goyena Chang
Despite enormous observational effort by numerous space surveillance networks, the population of small (
ESA Space Debris Office2023Advancing spacecraft demisability through a novel composite bolt joint system: a step toward sustainable and safe space environments
Véronique Michaud, Alexandre Achille Looten, Muriel Richard, Antonio Caiazzo
From the recent awareness of the booming number of space debris and their derived worldwide re-entry event threat originating from the use of high survivability components, complementary mitigation measures must be taken for future orbital elements. In thi ...
2023Breakdown of Reye's theory in nanoscale wear
Jean-François Molinari, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez, Tobias Brink
Building on an analogy to ductile fracture mechanics, we quantify the size of debris particles created during adhesive wear. Earlier work suggested a linear relation between tangential work and wear debris volume, assuming that the debris size is proportio ...
2022Fiber Buckling in Confined Viscous Flows: An Absolute Instability Described by the Linear Ginzburg-Landau Equation
François Gallaire, Jean Cappello
We explore the dynamics of a flexible fiber transported by a viscous flow in a Hele-Shaw cell of height comparable to the fiber height. We show that long fibers aligned with the flow experience a buckling instability. Competition between viscous and elasti ...
AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022Understanding the mechanisms of adhesive wear for heterogeneous materials through atomistic simulations
Jean-François Molinari, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez, Sacha Zenon Wattel
When two rough surfaces slide against each other, two main behaviors can be observed at the asperity level: A ductile behavior where the asperities tend to smooth out or a brittle behavior where the asperities detach and form debris. Recently, a critical l ...
ELSEVIER2022Numerical investigation of the effect of cohesion and ground friction on snow avalanches flow regimes
Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Betty Sovilla
With ongoing global warming, snow avalanche dynamics may change as snow cohesion and friction strongly depend on temperature. In the field, a diversity of avalanche flow regimes has been reported including fast, sheared flows and slow plugs. While the sign ...
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2022Sediment transfer in the Rhône River Basin, Switzerland: the role of localized severe Alpine storm events on triggering turbidity currents in Lake Geneva
David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Koen Blanckaert, François Mettra
In Lake Geneva, a deep peri-Alpine lake in Switzerland, the sublacustrine Rhône River delta presents a deep canyon, the Rhône Canyon. Previous studies and recent observations show that low-velocity underflows and high-velocity turbidity currents pass frequ ...
2021Quantifying the transition of impact mechanisms of geophysical flows against flexible barrier
Flexible barriers have been increasingly used worldwide for mitigating natural hazards involving various geophysical flows. The analysis and design of flexible barriers need to distinguish two major impact mechanisms, runup and pile-up, which remain poorly ...
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