4 papers
How far can we trust climate change predictions?
Francois Louchet
Current techniques for predicting climate change are mainly based on "massive" deterministic numerical modeling. However, the ocean-atmosphere system is a so-called "complex system…
Full-depth snow avalanches
Francois Louchet
On the basis of field observations and of a tentative classification of the different types of snow, a modeling of the different possible types of full-depth avalanches is proposed…
Modeling a fluid to solid phase transition in snow weak-layers. Application to slab avalanche release
Francois Louchet
Snow slab avalanche release usually results from failure of weak layers made of loose ice crystals. In previous field experiments, we evidenced for the first time an interesting st…
On the critical character of plasticity in metallic single crystals
Thiebaud Richeton, Patrik Dobron, Frantisek Chmelik +2
Previous acoustic emission (AE) experiments on ice single crystals, as well as numerical simulations, called for the possible occurrence of self-organized criticality (SOC) in coll…