We study the effects of connectivity enhancement due to film flow phenomena on the
drainage of an artificial porous medium and the relative influence of gravity for such effects …

Understanding the evolution of aseismic slip enables constraining the fault's seismic budget
and provides insight into dynamics of creep. Inverting the time series of surface deformation …

A simple numerical model to simulate athermal avalanches is presented. The model is
inspired by the “porous collapse” process where the compression of porous materials …

The efficient transport of fluids through disordered media requires a thorough understanding
of how the driving rate affects two-phase interface propagation. Despite our understanding …

The intermittent dynamics of slow drainage flows in a porous medium is studied
experimentally. This kind of two-phase flow is characterized by a rich burst activity and our …

We study the avalanche and extreme statistics of the global velocity of a crack front,
propagating slowly along a weak heterogeneous interface of a transparent polymethyl …

We report the results of an experimental investigation of the spatiotemporal dynamics of
stable imbibition fronts in a disordered medium, in the regime of capillary disorder, for a wide …

We examine the effect of small, spatially localized excitations applied periodically in different
manners, on the crackling dynamics of a brittle crack driven slowly in a heterogeneous solid …

We review our work on the invasion of a model open fracture by a viscous wetting fluid, in
the context of research on the spatiotemporal dynamics of fronts in disordered media. The …

The movement between tectonic plates is accommodated through brittle (elastic)
displacement on the plate boundary faults and ductile permanent deformation on the fault …