Publications by Jean-François Molinari

Do slip-weakening laws shapes influence rupture dynamics?

To model rupture dynamics, a friction law must be assumed. Commonly used constitutive laws include slip- weakening laws which are characterized by a drop from static to dynamic frictional stress over a critical slip distance. Within this framework, the pre ...

ELSEVIER2025

On-the-fly clustering for exascale molecular dynamics simulations

Jean-François Molinari

Computational resources have experienced exponential growth in the last decades enabling the simulation of complex physical problems at the cost of a massive increase in data storage. This is especially true for N-body simulations now reaching billions or ...

2025

A story of two transitions: From adhesive to abrasive wear and from ductile to brittle regime

Jean-François Molinari, Sacha Zenon Wattel

Atomistic simulations performed with a family of model potential with tunable hardness have proven to be a great tool for advancing the understanding of wear processes at the asperity level. They have been instrumental in finding a critical length scale, w ...

2024

Two-scale concurrent simulations for crack propagation using FEM–DEM bridging coupling

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez, Manon Eugénie Voisin--Leprince

The Discrete element method (DEM) is a robust numerical tool for simulating crack propagation and wear in granular materials. However, the computational cost associated with DEM hinders its applicability to large domains. To address this limitation, we emp ...

2024

Roughness Evolution Induced by Third-Body Wear

Jean-François Molinari, Tobias Brink, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez

Surface roughness is a key factor when it comes to friction and wear, as well as to other physical properties. These phenomena are controlled by mechanisms acting at small scales, in which the topography of apparently flat surfaces is revealed. Roughness i ...

2024

Accompanying data for the paper "Two-scale concurrent simulations for crack propagation using FEM-DEM bridging coupling" : Mode-II

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez, Manon Eugénie Voisin--Leprince

Contributions Manon Voisin--Leprince: Contributed to writing scripts, launching simulations, and analyzing results Joaquin Garcia-Suarez: Contributed to helping analyze results Guillaume Anciaux: Contributed to supervising the project Jean-François M ...

Zenodo2024

A finite geometry, inertia assisted coarsening-to-complexity transition in homogeneous frictional systems

Jean-François Molinari, Thibault Didier Roch

The emergence of statistical complexity in frictional systems (where nonlinearity and dissipation are confined to an interface), manifested in broad distributions of various observables, is not yet understood. We study this problem in velocity-driven, homo ...

2024

Accompanying data for the paper "Two-scale concurrent simulations for crack propagation using FEM-DEM bridging coupling" : Mode-I

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez, Manon Eugénie Voisin--Leprince

Contributions Manon Voisin--Leprince: Contributed to writing scripts, launching simulations, and analyzing results Joaquin Garcia-Suarez: Contributed to helping analyze results Guillaume Anciaux: Contributed to supervising the project Jean-François M ...

Zenodo2024

Fluid-mediated impact of soft solids

Jean-François Molinari, Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, John Martin Kolinski, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez

A viscous, lubrication-like response can be triggered in a thin film of fluid squeezed between a rigid flat surface and the tip of an incoming projectile. We develop a scaling for this viscous approach stage of fluid-mediated normal impact, applicable to s ...

Cambridge University Press2024

Roughness Evolution Induced by Third-Body Wear (vol 72, 37, 2024) [Correction]

Jean-François Molinari, Tobias Brink

2024