Description du sujet de thèse

Understanding and predicting the flow of media made up of particles such as sand, snow and powders remains a real challenge. Their handling in industry is based on a rich but totally empirical knowledge. Similarly, predicting geophysical events such as snow avalanches and landslides requires a better understanding of these materials. A major advance would be the development of tools for the continuous simulation of powder flows, similar to what we know how to do in fluid mechanics. Recent progress in the description of the behavioural laws of granular media suggests that such a treatment is possible. The PhD student's project will be to implement rheological models of powders in the Basilisk open source software, which will require original theoretical and numerical developments. This work will be carried out as part of the European ERC 'CohPa' project, as part of a collaboration between the d'Alembert laboratory in Paris, the birthplace of the Basilisk software, and the IUSTI laboratory in Marseille.

Contexte de travail

The researcher's contract will take place within the SOFT axis of the IUSTI laboratory, a collaborative team working on the physics of complex matter, from granular media to bio-inspired systems.
https://iusti.cnrs.fr/la-recherche-a-liusti/milieux-divises-et-fluides-complexes-axe-mdfc/
This work will be carried out as part of the European ERC 'CohPa' project, as part of a collaboration between the d'Alembert laboratory in Paris, the birthplace of the Basilisk software, and the IUSTI laboratory in Marseille.

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