Granular Materials
Granular Materials
My interest for granular material started with my first internship, during the summer of 2010, at the Institute of Globe Physics in Paris (IPGP, Space and Planetary Geophysics, with P. Lognonné). My mission was to design and build an experiment which would simule the micro gravity and reproduce the behavior of a small lander (pod which contains the sismometer) on a granular soil (dust, regolith).
The project I worked on for my Masters degrees in Fluid Mechanics initially dealt with the collapse of a column of grains. I also computed a 3D-version of such a column among other things.
According to my background in mechatronics, I would be very interesting in inquiring about solid/granular media interactions, such as the case of a wheel on a granular soil. I computed a first simulation which do not take into account the weight of the wheel but which shows the effect of a rotating object on a granular media.
I would like to warmly thank Professor P.-Y. Lagrée (Jean le Rond ∂‘Alembert, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UPMC PARIS 6) who advised me in these first investigations on granular media.
This webpage is not completed but here is a first presentation sample I gave on the subject last November...
October 2012 - present
Models of granular flows and solid/granular media interactions