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Performance and limits of a geotechnical centrifuge: DEM-LBM simulations of saturated granular column collapse (2024)
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This study investigates the dynamics of granular flows in geotechnical centrifuge models, focusing on the effects of centrifugal and Coriolis accelerations. While conventional laboratory-scale investigations often rely on Froude scaling, geotechnical... Read More about Performance and limits of a geotechnical centrifuge: DEM-LBM simulations of saturated granular column collapse.

Continuum modelling of a just-saturated inertial column collapse: capturing fluid-particle interaction (2024)
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This work presents a simple two-phase flow model to analyse a series of axisymmetric granular column collapse tests conducted under elevated gravitational accelerations. These columns were prepared with a just-saturated condition, where the granular... Read More about Continuum modelling of a just-saturated inertial column collapse: capturing fluid-particle interaction.

Fines-controlled drainage in just-saturated, inertial column collapses (2023)
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The wide particle size distributions, over several orders of magnitude, observed in debris flows leads to a diverse range of rheological behaviours controlling flow outcomes. This study explores the influence of different scale grains by conducting s... Read More about Fines-controlled drainage in just-saturated, inertial column collapses.

Inertial effects in just-saturated axisymmetric column collapses (2023)
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This work introduces a scaling analysis of sub-aerial axisymmetric column collapses of glass beads and Newtonian glycerol-water solutions mimicking some of the behaviours of debris flows. The beads were in a size range where their inertia partly deco... Read More about Inertial effects in just-saturated axisymmetric column collapses.

Grain Reynolds number scale effects in dry granular slides (2020)
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©2020. The Authors. Scale effects are differences in physical behavior that manifest between a large event and a geometrically scaled laboratory model and may cause misleading predictions. This study focuses on scale effects in granular slides, impor... Read More about Grain Reynolds number scale effects in dry granular slides.

An industry-inspired civil engineering curriculum (2019)
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This article describes the design of an undergraduate civil engineering curriculum that uses industry approaches to personal professional development and problem-based learning to educate the graduates that industry needs. The new curriculum is struc... Read More about An industry-inspired civil engineering curriculum.

A laboratory-numerical approach for modelling scale effects in dry granular slides (2018)
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Granular slides are omnipresent in both natural and industrial contexts. Scale effects are changes in physical behaviour of a phenomenon at different geometric scales, such as between a laboratory experiment and a corresponding larger event observed... Read More about A laboratory-numerical approach for modelling scale effects in dry granular slides.

Development and evaluation of poly(dimethylsiloxane) based composite coatings for icephobic applications (2018)
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Formation and accretion of ice on the leading edge surface of aircrafts wings may lead to disasters. The current de-icing system for aircraft will build up weight, increase energy consumption and add complexity to the aircraft systems. Development of... Read More about Development and evaluation of poly(dimethylsiloxane) based composite coatings for icephobic applications.

Looking beyond the powder/dense flow avalanche dichotomy (2018)
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Köhler et al. (2018) deploy a high spatial and temporal resolution GEODAR radar system to reveal the inside of snow avalanches over the entire slope. They detect a rich variety of longitudinal and slope normal flow structures across a data set of 77... Read More about Looking beyond the powder/dense flow avalanche dichotomy.

Mixed ice accretion on aircraft wings (2018)
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Ice accretion is a problematic natural phenomenon that an effects a wide range of engineering applications including power cables, radio masts and wind turbines. Accretion on aircraft wings occurs when supercooled water droplets freeze instantaneousl... Read More about Mixed ice accretion on aircraft wings.

Identification of particle-laden flow features from wavelet decomposition (2017)
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A wavelet decomposition based technique is applied to air pressure data obtained from laboratory-scale powder snow avalanches. This technique is shown to be a powerful tool for identifying both repeatable and chaotic features at any frequency within... Read More about Identification of particle-laden flow features from wavelet decomposition.

Performance and durability tests of smart icephobic coatings to reduce ice adhesion (2017)
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The accretion of ice can damage applications ranging from power lines and shipping decks; to wind turbines and rail infrastructure. In particular on aircraft, it can change aerodynamic characteristics, greatly affecting the flight safety. Commercial... Read More about Performance and durability tests of smart icephobic coatings to reduce ice adhesion.

Super-hydrophobic/icephobic coatings based on silica nanoparticles modified by self-assembled monolayers (2016)
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A super-hydrophobic surface has been obtained from nanocomposite materials based on silica nanoparticles and self-assembled monolayers of 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorooctyltriethoxysilane (POTS) using spin coating and chemical vapor deposition methods. Scann... Read More about Super-hydrophobic/icephobic coatings based on silica nanoparticles modified by self-assembled monolayers.

Debris flows: experiments and modelling (2014)
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Debris flows and debris avalanches are complex, gravity-driven currents of rock, water and sediments that can be highly mobile. This combination of component materials leads to a rich morphology and unusual dynamics, exhibiting features of both granu... Read More about Debris flows: experiments and modelling.