Amorphous materials as diverse as foams, emulsions, colloidal suspensions and granular
media can jam into a rigid, disordered state where they withstand finite shear stresses …

The present status of research and understanding regarding the dynamics and the statistical
properties of earthquakes is reviewed, mainly from a statistical physical viewpoint. Emphasis …

There is a large amount of experimental and numerical work dealing with dry granular flows
(such as sand, glass beads, etc.) that supports the so-called-rheology. The reliability of the …

The statement of the title is shown by numerical simulation of homogeneously sheared
assemblies of frictionless, nearly rigid beads in the quasistatic limit. Results coincide for …

We review the state of the art in foam and highly concentrated emulsion rheology, with an
emphasis on progress made over the last five years. Since the structures and physico …

There has been a marked increase in the use of the discrete element method (DEM) in
geomechanics in recent years. The way in which DEM simulations are set up can have a …

Using discrete simulations, we investigate the behavior of a model granular material within
an annular shear cell. Specifically, two-dimensional assemblies of disks are placed between …

In light of a warming climate, the complexity of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
makes its prediction a challenge. In addition to various flavors of ENSO, oceanic warming in …

Rheological properties of dense flows of hard particles are singular as one approaches the
jamming threshold where flow ceases both for aerial granular flows dominated by inertia …

Abstract Using a continuum Navier-Stokes solver with the μ (I) flow law implemented to
model the viscous behavior, and the discrete Contact Dynamics algorithm, the discharge of …