Publications by Michel Tsukahara

Jamming in granular media : modeling of experimental data

This thesis studies the phenomenon of jamming in granular media, such as when a salt shaker gets clogged. We use modern instrumentation, like X-ray synchrotron tomography, to look inside real jamming experiments. High performance computers allow simulating ...

EPFL2009

Particle shape versus friction in granular jamming

Thomas Liebling, Lionel Pournin, Michel Tsukahara

What is the influence of sand grain shapes on an hourglass accuracy, and how does it affect the jamming probability? We study such a question using numerical simulation and our recently introduced spheropolyhedral particles. Spheropolyhedra constitute a ve ...

AIP2009

Simple probabilistic modeling of granular jamming and validation using DEM

Thomas Liebling, Lionel Pournin, Michel Tsukahara

We study the flow of grains in a bi-dimensional hopper. We propose a simple continuous probabilistic flow model: from uniformly random positions in the hopper, particles evolve without interaction towards the hopper aperture and jamming occurs if sufficien ...

AIP2009

Coupled tomography and distinct-element-method approach to exploring the granular media microstructure in a jamming hourglass

Giorgio Margaritondo, Michaël Unser, Thomas Liebling, Daniel Sage, Lionel Pournin, Michel Tsukahara, Slobodan Mitrovic, Marco Ramaioli, Vincent Gajdosik

We describe an approach for exploring microscopic properties of granular media that couples x-ray microtomography and distinct-element-method (DEM) simulations through image analysis. We illustrate it via the study of the intriguing phenomenon of instant a ...

APS2008

Three-dimensional distinct element simulation of spherocylinder crystallization

Thomas Liebling, Lionel Pournin, Jean-Albert Ferrez, Michel Tsukahara, Marco Ramaioli

We present a three-dimensional distinct element model (DEM) able to handle populations of spherocylinders. We report on granular crystallization occurring when vibrating mono-disperse assemblies of spherocylinders that faithfully reproduce the correspondin ...

Springer-Verlag2005