Mobility of long-runout rock flows: A discrete numerical investigation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 455-463

  Staron, L ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Fracture and flow; Friction; Numerical solutions

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE FLOW; GEOMETRY; GRANULAR MEDIUM; NUMERICAL METHOD; ROCK; SIMULATION; SLOPE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 37448998566     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03631.x     Document Type: Article

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