Models and numerical methods for granular materials
ENPC, 19-21 November 2007


Schedule


All talks will be given in the Navier room (on the ground floor of the ENPC).

Monday 19 november


09:00-10:00 Welcome
10:00-12:00 Jean-Noël Roux
Mechanical behaviour of dense non-cohesive granular materials: macroscopic description and microscopic origins I (Abstract)

Slides part 1, Slides part 2, Some bibliography
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 François Bouchut
Derivation of a thin layer model for fluid/solid transition (Abstract)

Slides
14:50-15:35 Stefan Luding
From particles simulations to constitutive laws for granular flow (Abstract)

Slides
15:35-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:45 Fabrice Toussaint
Concrete: a challenging material for granular packing and granular flows (Abstract)
16:50-17:35 Chay Goldenberg
Systematic coarse graining: from particle dynamics to continuum mechanics (Abstract)


Tuesday 20 november


9:00-11:00 Bertrand Maury
Numerical modelling of dry and wet contacts between rigid bodies I (Abstract)

Slides
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Mathieu Renouf
Non Smooth approaches for the simulation of divided media (Abstract)

Slides
12:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 François Chevoir
Mechanical behaviour of dense non-cohesive granular materials: macroscopic description and microscopic origins II (Abstract)

Slides + movies (60 Mb), Slides only (16 Mb)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:15 Dietrich Wolf
Properties of shear zones (Abstract)


Wednesday 21 november


9:00-11:00 Bertrand Maury
Numerical modelling of dry and wet contacts between rigid bodies II (Abstract)

Slides
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Nicolas Rivier
Stability and jamming transition in hard granular materials: Algebraic graph theory (Abstract)

Slides
12:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Marica Pelanti
A numerical model for two-phase shallow granular flows over variable topography (Abstract)

Slides
15:00-15:45 Denis Duhamel
Vibration of granular materials (Abstract)

Slides
15:45-16:00 Conclusions




Last update: November 25th, 2007