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Different erosion and entrainment mechanisms in snow avalanches

Betty Sovilla, Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Xingyue Li

Erosion significantly affects the dynamics of gravity-driven mass flows. In snow avalanches, the snow cover can be substantially eroded but only partially entrained, however, there are very limited investigations to substantiate this difference. Here, we s ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Towards a predictive multi-phase model for alpine mass movements and process cascades

Bertil Trottet, Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Lars Kristoffer Uhlen Blatny, Xingyue Li, Alessandro Cicoira

Alpine mass movements can generate process cascades involving different materials including rock, ice, snow, and water. Numerical modelling is an essential tool for the quantification of natural hazards. Yet, state-of-the-art operational models are based o ...

2022

Detrainment and braking of snow avalanches interacting with forests

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Xingyue Li, Louis Jean Henri Vedrine

Mountain forests provide natural protection against avalanches. They can both prevent avalanche formation in release zones and reduce avalanche mobility in runout areas. Although the braking effect of forests has been previously explored through global sta ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2022

A new insight into the dynamic impact between geophysical flow and rigid barrier

Xingyue Li

Understanding the interaction between complicated geophysical flows and barriers remains a critical challenge for hazards countermeasures in engineering design. In this study, the impact of geophysical flows on a rigid barrier is studied numerically using ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Three-dimensional and real-scale modeling of flow regimes in dense snow avalanches

Betty Sovilla, Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Xingyue Li

Snow avalanches cause fatalities and economic loss worldwide and are one of the most dangerous gravitational hazards in mountainous regions. Various flow behaviors have been reported in snow avalanches, making them challenging to be thoroughly understood a ...

2021

Hydrodynamic dead zone in multiphase geophysical flows impacting a rigid obstacle

Xingyue Li

When a gravity-driven solid-fluid mixture, such as those in geophysical flows, hits a wall-like rigid obstacle, a metastable jammed zone called hydrodynamic dead zone (HDZ) may emerge. The unjammed-jammed transition of HDZ, controlled by the intricate inte ...

2021

Quantifying the transition of impact mechanisms of geophysical flows against flexible barrier

Xingyue Li

Flexible barriers have been increasingly used worldwide for mitigating natural hazards involving various geophysical flows. The analysis and design of flexible barriers need to distinguish two major impact mechanisms, runup and pile-up, which remain poorly ...

ELSEVIER2021

Modeling snow and avalanches with the Material Point Method and finite strain elastoplasticity

Bertil Trottet, Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Lars Kristoffer Uhlen Blatny, Xingyue Li

Snow is a complex and fascinating material which can sustain stresses like a solid or flow like a fluid depending upon the load it is subjected to. The transition from solid to fluid state can lead to catastrophic snow slab avalanches. Modeling large defor ...

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The mechanical origin of snow avalanche dynamics and flow regime transitions

Betty Sovilla, Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Xingyue Li

Snow avalanches cause fatalities and economic damage. Key to their mitigation is the understanding of snow avalanche dynamics. This study investigates the dynamic behavior of snow avalanches, using the material point method (MPM) and an elastoplastic const ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2020