Dr. Franco Tapia
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Senior Scientis
NameMr Dr. Franco Tapia
Head of the Lab (engl.)
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Chair of Transport Processes in Hydrosystems
Chair of Transport Processes in Hydrosystems
Visiting address:
CHE, Passage Raum P304 Bergstraße 66
01069 Dresden
2026
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Tangential Forces Govern the Viscous-Inertial Transition in Dense Frictional Suspensions, 16 Jun 2026, In: Phys. Rev. Lett.. 136, 24, 248201Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Coating-induced lubrication in granular media: from particle-scale tribology to bulk rheology, 10 Jun 2026, In: Soft Matter. 22, 22, p. 3857-3869, 13 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Transition between the viscous and the inertial regime in sheared dense suspensions: the effect of wall boundaries, 14 Mar 2026, In: Acta MechanicaElectronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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- 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–present |Habilitation, Chair of Transport Processes in Hydrosystems. Topic: Rheology of granular materials and sediment transport. TU Dresden.
- 2021–2023 | Postdoc, Earthquake Research Institute Topic: Physical model for magma fragmentation. The University of Tokyo
- 2016–2021 | Postdoc, IUSTI
Research topic: Rheology of granular materials and sediment transport.
Aix-Marseille University. - 2014–2015 | Postdoc, Laboratoire de Physique
Research Topic: Cracking in cohesive granular material.
École normale supérieure de Lyon. - 2013 | Research Assistant, Faculty of Agronomy
Topic: Electrophysiological signals in woody plants.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. - 2012–2013 | Research Assistant, Nonlinear Physics Laboratory, Institute of Physics
Topic: In-plane and out-of-plane measurements of dry granular material.
University of Santiago de Chile. - 2007–2012 | Ph.D. in Materials Science, Department of Metallurgical Engineering
University of Santiago de Chile. - 2002–2007 |Bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics, Institute of Physics
University of 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, 133, 088201 (2024). Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.088201
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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 (2022). 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 (2019). 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 (2017). 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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Nonlinear waves in dry and wet Herztian granular chains, S. Job, F. Santibañez, F. Tapia and F. Melo, Ultrasonics 48, 506-514. Link:
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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:
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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