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Why don't avalanche-dynamics models of higher complexity necessarily lead to better predictions?

Christophe Ancey

The avalanche-dynamics approach has a long history in avalanche prediction. In the absence of computers, scientists and engineers focused on idealized models in which avalanches were seen as rigid sliding blocks. Although the resulting governing equation w ...

2013

Dam Break of Newtonian Fluids and Granular Suspensions

Nicolas Andreini

The objective of this thesis was to increase our understanding of two-phase geophysical flows (e.g. debris flows) by providing velocity profiles in idealized laboratory avalanches. To that end, we developed a new experimental platform made up of an incline ...

EPFL2012

Viscoplastic dambreak waves: review of simple computational approaches and comparison with experiments

Christophe Ancey, Nicolas Andreini, Gaël Epely Chauvin

We investigated the dam-break problem for Herschel-Bulkley fluids: a fixed volume of a viscoplastic material (a polymeric gel called Carbopol ultrez 10) was released and flowed down an inclined flume. Using Particle Image Velocimetry techniques, we measure ...

Elsevier2012

Coating of open cell foams

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Han Zhang

The interior surfaces of three-dimensional open cell foams were coated by a combination of dip coating and spin coating. Glycerol/water solutions were used as model Newtonian liquids, and the coating processes were studied on open cell carbon foams with 10 ...

2012

Dynamics of fluid mixtures in nanospaces

A multicomponent extension of our recent theory of simple fluids [U. M. B. Marconi and S. Melchionna, J. Chem. Phys. 131, 014105 (2009)] is proposed to describe miscible and immiscible liquid mixtures under inhomogeneous, nonsteady conditions typical of co ...

2011

Brownian motion in a Maxwell fluid

Sylvia Jeney, Matthias Grimm

The equilibrium dynamics of a spherical particle immersed in a complex Maxwell fluid is analyzed in terms of velocity autocorrelation function (VACF), mean-square displacement (MSD), and power spectral density (PSD). We elucidate the role of hydrodynamic m ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2011

Containers assembled in fluid and corresponding production

Jürgen Brugger, Alcherio Martinoli, Cristina Martin Olmos, Grégory Mermoud

A method for fabricating a fluid container, wherein at least two half containers are mated in said fluid to be contained in said container. This method allows the incorporation of prefabricated devices into each half containers as well as the functional co ...

2011

Grid Filter Models for the Large Eddy Simulation of Fluid Flows

Marc Anthony David Habisreutinger

In fluid mechanics, turbulence can occur in very simple flow geometries, for Newtonian fluids and without the need for additional flow conditions such as temperature gradients or chemical reactions. In standard cases, intuitive assumptions on the physics o ...

EPFL2010

The dam-break problem for viscous fluids in the high-capillary-number limit

Christophe Ancey, Steve Cochard, Nicolas Andreini

Experiments were undertaken to investigate dam-break flows where a finite volume of highly viscous fluid (glucose with viscosity μ ≈ 350 Pa s) maintained behind a lock gate was released into a horizontal or inclined flume. The resulting sequence of flow-de ...

Cambridge University Press2009

A 1D Model For A Closed Rigid Filament In Stokes Flow

Philippe Caussignac

We adapt an existing asymptotic method to set up a one-dimensional model for the fall of a closed filament in an in finite fluid in the Stokes regime. Starting from the single-layer integral representation of the fluid velocity around the filament, we get, ...

2009