Publications

A critical state μ(I)-rheology model for cohesive granular flows

L. Blatny, J.M.N.T. Gray and J. Gaume
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 997 (2024)
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Transition between mechanical and geometric controls in glacier crevassing processes

H. Rousseau, J. Gaume, L. Blatny and M. Lüthi
Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 51 (2024)
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Microstructural controls on the plastic consolidation of porous brittle solids

L. Blatny, H. Löwe and J. Gaume
Acta Materialia, vol. 250 (2023)
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A depth-averaged material point method for shallow landslides: Applications to snow slab avalanche release

L. Guillet, L. Blatny, B. Trottet, D. Steffen and J. Gaume
Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, vol. 128 (2023)
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Microstructural origin of propagating compaction patterns in porous media

L. Blatny, P. Berclaz, F. Guillard, I. Einav and J. Gaume
Physical Review Letters, vol. 128 (2022)
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This work was featured in Physics Magazine

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

A. Cicoira, L. Blatny, X. Li, B. Trottet and J. Gaume
Engineering Geology, vol. 310 (2022)
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Computational micromechanics of porous brittle solids

L. Blatny, H. Löwe, S. Wang and J. Gaume
Computers and Geotechnics, vol. 140 (2021)
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Invited talks and presentations

• Oct 24, 2024: Continuum modeling of cohesive and compressible granular flows with elasto-viscoplasticity
  60th Anniversary of Groupe Français de Rhéologie, Marseille, France

• Sep 30, 2024: The emergence of propagating compaction bands in porous inelastic media
  ALERT Geomaterials Workshop 2024, Aussois, France

• Jul 4, 2024: Modeling snow through its solid and liquid phase
  SANDLESS 2024, Sydney, Australia

• Oct 11, 2023: Modeling cohesive and compressible granular flows with critical state µ(I)-rheology
  Society of Engineering Sciences 2023, Minneapolis, USA

• Jun 2, 2023: Erosion, deposition, waves and rate-dependency in alpine mass movements
  INRAE MPM Workshop 2023, Aix-en-Provence, France

• Oct 18, 2022: Modeling granular media by combining μ(I)-rheology and critical state soil mechanics
  Graphyz2 - The First Graphics-Physics Workshop, 2nd Ed., Arc-et-Senans, France

• Sep 29, 2022: An elastic–viscoplastic constitutive model for snow avalanche dynamics
  IGS International Symposium on Snow, Davos, Switzerland

• Aug 2, 2022: Plastic collapse in porous brittle solids
  15th World Congress on Computation Mechanics (WCCM), Yokohama (virtual)

• May 10, 2022: Constitutive modeling of snow
  MultiPLES Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

• Sep 8, 2021: Investigating the mechanics of porous brittle solids with the material point method and Gaussian random field microstructures
  XVI International Conference on Computational Plasticity (COMPLAS), Barcelona, Spain

• Apr 27, 2021: A unified framework for computational microstructure-based snow mechanics
  EGU General Assembly, Vienna (virtual)

• May 8, 2020: Microstructure-based modeling of snow using the material point method and finite strain elastoplasticity
  EGU General Assembly, Vienna (virtual)

Thesis

PhD Mechanics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Modeling the mechanics and rheology of porous and granular media: an elastoplastic continuum approach. Supervisors: Prof. J. Gaume, Prof. J.F. Molinari. DOI: 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10267

MSc Computational Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Computing Measure-Valued Solutions of the Leray-Alpha Model of Turbulence. Supervisor: Prof. S. Mishra.

Code

Matter: A 2D and 3D Material Point Method (MPM) solver written in C++ specifically designed for granular mechanics and rheology, based on a finite strain elasto-viscoplastic framework.

GRFsaw: A simple Python code for constructing and processing artificial binary microstructures in 2D or 3D