Dr. Franco Tapia
- Rheology of Granular Materials
- Shear Banding in Granular Flows
- Geophysical Flows
- Sediment Transport
- 2024 | Flocculation and Settling of Fine Particles.
- 2022 - 2023 | Pressure and Volume imposed rheology of Soft Particles.
- 2023 | Shear Thickening in a Dry Granular Medium.
- 2021 - 2023 | Explosive Eruption of Volcanoes. Physical Model for Magma Fragmentation.
- 2016 - 2021 | Rheology of Dense Suspensions. Friction, Shape and Inertia.
- 2014 - 2015 | Fracturing in Wet Granular Media.
- 2007 - 2013 | Nucleation and Evolution of Shear Bands in Dry Granular Medium.
- 2006 - 2008 | NonLinear Wave propagation in Hertzian Chains.
- 2024 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Transport Processes in Hydrosystems.
Subject: Rheology of Granular Materials and Sediment Transport.
TU Dresden. - 2021 - 2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Earthquake Reasearch Institute
Subject: Physical model for Magma Fragmentation.
The University of Tokyo. - 2016 - 2021 | Postdoctoral Researcher, IUSTI
Subject: Rheology of Granular Materials and Sediment Transport.
Aix-Marseille Université. - 2014 - 2015 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire de Physique
Subject: Fracturing in cohesive granular matter.
École normale supérieure de Lyon. - 2013 | Research Assistant, Faculty of Agronomy
Subject: Electrophysiology signal of woody plants.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. - 2012 - 2013 | Research Assistant, Non Linear Physics Lab, Physics Department
Subject: In- and out-plane measurement on dry granular matter.
Universidad de Santiago de Chile. - 2007 - 2012 | PhD. In Materials Science, Department of Metallurgical Engineering,
Universidad de Santiago de Chile. - 2002 - 2007 | Bachelor Degree in Applied Physics, Physics Department,
Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
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Rheology of suspensions of non-Brownian soft spheres across the jamming and viscous-to-inertial transitions. Franco Tapia, Chong-wei Hong, Pascale Aussillous, Élisabeth Guazzelli. Phy. Rev. Letter, submitted.
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Viscous to Inertial Transition in Dense Granular Suspension. Franco Tapia, Mie Ichihara, Olivier Pouliquen, Élisabeth Guazzelli. Phy. Rev. Letter, 129, 078001. Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.078001
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Influence of surface roughness on the rheology of immersed and dry frictional spheres. Franco Tapia, Olivier Pouliquen, Élisabeth Guazzelli. Physical Review Fluids 4 (10), 104302. Link:
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Rheology of concentrated suspensions of non-colloidal rigid fibres, F Tapia, S Shaikh, JE Butler, O Pouliquen, É Guazzelli, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 827. Link:
https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2017.552 -
Fracture reveals clustering in cohesive granular matter, Franco Tapia, Stephane Santucci and Jean-Christohpe Geminard, EPL 115 (2016) 64001. Link:
https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/115/64001 -
Anisotropic friction: assessment of force components and resulting trajectories, Franco Tapia, Denis Le Tourneau and Jean-Christohpe Geminard, EPJ Techniques and Instrumentations 3, 1 (2016). Link:
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjti/s40485-016-0029-y -
Electrophysiological assessment of water stress in fruit-bearing woody plants, Liliana Ríos-Rojas, Franco Tapia, Luis A. Gurovich, Journal of Plant Physiology 171 (2014) 799–806. Link:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2014.02.005 -
Effect of packing fraction on shear band formation in a granular material forced by a penetrometer, F. Tapia, D.Espíndola, E.Hamm, F.Melo, Phys. Rev. E 87, 014201. Link:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.014201 -
Dynamics of shear bands in a dense granular material forced by a slowly moving rigid body, E. Hamm, F. Tapia, F. Melo, Phys. Rev. E. 84, 041304. Link:
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Wave localization in strongly nonlinear Hertzian chains with mass defect, S. Job, F. Santibañez, F. Tapia and F. Melo, Phys. Rev. E 80, 025602(R). Link:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.025602 -
Nonlinear waves in dry and wet Herztian granular chains, S. Job, F. Santibañez, F. Tapia and F. Melo, Ultrasonics 48, 506-514. Link:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2008.03.006 -
Nonlinear waves in Hertzian granular chains: Effects of inertial and stiffnes heterogeneities, S. Job, F. Melo, F. Santibañez and F. Tapia, Proceedings of the International congress on Ultrasonics, Vienna, 9-13. Link:
10.3728/ICUltrasonics.2007.Vienna.1727_job -
Experimental evidence of shock mitigation in a Hertzian tapered chain, F. Melo, S. Job, F. Santibañez and F. Tapia, Phys. Rev. E 73, 041305. Link:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.73.041305