3 papers
physics.geo-ph2008★ 119 cited
Growth of stylolite teeth patterns depends on normal stress and finite compaction
Daniel Koehn, François Renard, Renaud Toussaint +1
Stylolites are spectacular rough dissolution surfaces that are found in many rock types. Despite many studies, their genesis is still debated, particularly the time scales of their…
cond-mat.soft2007★ 85 cited
Granular Rayleigh-Taylor Instability: Experiments and Simulations
Jan Ludvig Vinningland, Oistein Johnsen, Eirik G. Flekkoy +2
A granular instability driven by gravity is studied experimentally and numerically. The instability arises as grains fall in a closed Hele-Shaw cell where a layer of dense granular…
cond-mat.stat-mech2004
Mean Field Theory of Localization in the Fuse Model
Renaud Toussaint, Alex Hansen
We propose a mean field theory for the localization of damage in a quasistatic fuse model on a cylinder. Depending on the quenched disorder distribution of the fuse thresholds, we…