Discrete Simulation and Continuum Modeling of Granular Matter

Workshop May 20-26, 2023 at Masseria Salamina, Puglia, Italy

In the beautiful scenery of Masseria Salamina, researchers will review the state of the art of modeling the physical behavior of granular materials. They will focus on the limitations of existing models and explore how they may be extended. The participants will be invited to present the derivation of the models, to describe the existing physical and numerical experiments, and to discuss what features of the experiments the model can and cannot predict. Discussions will address issues raised by the speakers, attempt to clarify them, and indicate how their resolution might advance the subject.

The topics that will be addressed in the meeting are: DEM simulations, Turbulent Sediment Transport, Debris Flow, Wind Blown Sand, Dense Dry Collisional Flow.


  •  26/05/2023 07:30
  •   Masseria Salamina, Fasano, BR, Italia
  •  25/05/2023 10:00
  •   Masseria Salamina, Fasano, BR, Italia
  •  24/05/2023 10:00
  •   Masseria Salamina, Fasano, BR, Italia
  •  23/05/2023 10:00
  •   Masseria Salamina, Fasano, BR, Italia
  •  22/05/2023 10:00
  •   Masseria Salamina, Fasano, BR, Italia
  •  21/05/2023 15:00
  •   Masseria Salamina, Fasano, BR, Italia

Anna Prati

Dry granular avalanches

Ben Nadler

Collisional flow of axisymmetric granular liquids

Giulio G. Giusteri

Continuum modelling of dense suspensions

Hervé Capart

Continuum modeling of dry granular flows associated with brittle slope failure

Jake Langham

Settling turbulent suspensions and exact coherent structures

Karol Bacik

Dry collisional flows

Klaus Kroy

Bed-creep conspiracy theory of aeolian sand transport

Kumar Gaurav

Motion of granular materials on small planetary bodies

Luigi La Ragione

Micro-Mechanics of dense suspensions

Sovan Das

Dense and dry gravity driven flow

Alexandre Valence

Andrew Hogg

Dan Hanes

Giulio Giusteri

Hisao Hayakawa

Jim Jenkins

Klaus Kroy

Mark Shattuck

Patrick Richard

Philippe Claudin

Organizing Committee image
Diego Berzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
James Jenkins, Cornell University, USA
Klaus Kroy, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Luigi La Ragione, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Michele Larcher, Free University of Bozan-Bolzano, Italy
Patrick Richard, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Alexandre Valance, Institut de Physique de Rennes, France
Riccardo Artoni, Université Gustave Eiffel, Nantes, France
Karol Bacik, University of Bath, UK
Adrian Baule, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Diego Berzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Hervé Capart, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Philippe Claudin, ESPCI Paris , France
Sovan Das, IIT Pallakad, India
Kumar Gaurav, IIT Kanpur, India
Nazanin Ghods, Gratz University of Technology, Austria
Giulio Giusteri, Università di Padova, Italy
Dan Hanes, Saint Louis University, USA
Hisao Hayakawa, Kyoto University, Japan
Andrew Hogg, Bristol University, UK
Jim Jenkins, Cornell University, USA
Klaus Kroy, Leipzig University, Germany
Luigi La Ragione, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Jake Langham Bristol University, UK
Michele Larcher, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Stefan Luding, University of Twente, Netherlands
Vanessa Magnanimo, University of Twente, Netherlands
Tom Mullin, Univerisity of Oxford, UK
Florence Naaim, Universite of Grenoble, France
Ben Nadler, University of Victoria, Canada
Anna Prati, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Patrick Richard, Université Gustave Eiffel, Nantes, France
Jean-Noel Roux, Laboratoire Navier, Paris, France
Ishan Sharma, IIT Kanpur, India
Mark Shattuck, CCNY, USA
Benoit Spinewine, Fugro, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Barbara Turnbull, University of Nottingham, UK
Mudasir Ul Islam, IIT Pallakad, India
Alexandre Valance, Institut de Physique de Rennes, France
Dalila Vescovi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Farmani Zohreh, Wageningen University and Research-University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Luigi La Ragione DICATECH- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, del Territorio, Edile e di Chimica -Politecnico di Bari (Italy)

Discrete and Continuum Modeling of Natural Systems 

May 29th through June 3th, 2022
Workshop at MASSERIA SALAMINA, Fasano Italy