Publications by Gaël Epely Chauvin

An Underlying Asymmetry within Particle-size Segregation

Nicolas Andreini, Christophe Ancey, Gaël Epely Chauvin, Kasper van der Vaart

We experimentally study particle scale dynamics during segregation of a bidisperse mixture under oscillatory shear. Large and small particles display an underlying asymmetry that is dependent on the local particle concentration, with small particles segreg ...

American Physical Society2015

Modelling of plunge pool scour evolution in non-cohesive sediments

Giovanni De Cesare, Gaël Epely Chauvin, Sebastian Schwindt

Turbulences in liquids caused by jets can be of interest for numerous applications. For one, it concerns flood spillway structures within civil engineering but also is key in any area where turbulent mixing is present. The numerical simulations of jets tha ...

2014

Granular suspension avalanches. II. Plastic regime

Nicolas Andreini, Christophe Ancey, Gaël Epely Chauvin

We present flume experiments showing plastic behavior for perfectly density-matched suspensions of non-Brownian particles within a Newtonian fluid. In contrast with most earlier experimental investigations (carried out using coaxial cylinder rheometers), w ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

Granular suspension avalanches. I. Macro-viscous behavior

Nicolas Andreini, Christophe Ancey, Gaël Epely Chauvin

We experimentally studied the flow behavior of a fixed volume of granular suspension, initially contained in a reservoir and released down an inclined flume. Here “granular suspension” refers to a suspension of non-Brownian particles in a viscous fluid. De ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

The dam-break problem for concentrated suspensions of neutrally buoyant particles

Nicolas Andreini, Christophe Ancey, Gaël Epely Chauvin

This paper addresses the dam-break problem for particle suspensions, that is, the flow of a finite volume of suspension released suddenly down an inclined flume. We were concerned with concentrated suspensions made up of neutrally-buoyant non-colloidal par ...

Cambridge University Press2013

Viscoplastic dambreak waves: review of simple computational approaches and comparison with experiments

Nicolas Andreini, Christophe Ancey, Gaël Epely Chauvin

We investigated the dam-break problem for Herschel-Bulkley fluids: a fixed volume of a viscoplastic material (a polymeric gel called Carbopol ultrez 10) was released and flowed down an inclined flume. Using Particle Image Velocimetry techniques, we measure ...

Elsevier2012

Internal dynamics of Newtonian and viscoplastic fluid avalanches down a sloping bed

Nicolas Andreini, Christophe Ancey, Gaël Epely Chauvin

We experimentally investigated the spreading of fluid avalanches (i.e., fixed volumes of fluid) down an inclined flume. Emphasis was given to the velocity field within the head. Using specific imaging techniques, we were able to measure velocity profiles w ...

2012

Refractive-index and density matching in concentrated particle suspensions: a review

Sébastien Wiederseiner, Nicolas Andreini, Christophe Ancey, Gaël Epely Chauvin

Optical measurement techniques such as particle image velocimetry (PIV) and laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) are now routinely used in experimental fluid mechanics to investigate pure fluids or dilute suspensions. For highly concentrated particle suspension ...

Springer-Verlag2011

Experimental investigation into segregating granular flows down chutes

Sébastien Wiederseiner, Nicolas Andreini, Christophe Ancey, Gaudenz Moser, Gaël Epely Chauvin

We experimentally investigated how a binary granular mixture made up of spherical glass beads size ratio of 2 behaved when flowing down a chute. Initially, the mixture was normally graded, with all the small particles on top of the coarse grains. Segregati ...

2011