Dam breaks of landslide dams are always accompanied by large numbers of casualties, a large loss of property, and negative influences on the downstream ecology and environment. This study uses the Jiadanwan landslide dam, created by the Wenchuan earthquake, as a case study example. Several laboratory experiments are carried out to analyse the dam-break mechanism of the landslide dam. The differ...

The prediction of large-scale hydrodynamic events such as tsunami spread and run-up, dam break, flood, or landslide run-out is a challenging and important problem of applied mathematics and scientific computing. The paper presents a computational approach based on free surface flow models for fluids of complex rheology to simulate such events and phenomena with detail and prediction confidence ...

There has been a great deal of interest and activity in percolation theory since the two Saint-Flour courses, [76, 111], of 1984 and 1996 reprinted in this new edition. We present here a summary of progress since the first publications of our lecture notes. The second edition of Percolation, [77], was published in 1999 as a fairly complete, contemporary account of ‘classical’ percolation (but w...

The so-called principle of statically equivalent loads, due to Saint Venant, has been referred to for the last fifty years in almost all texts on elasticity. The statements in different books vary only slightly. Let us quote A. E. H. Love's Treatise on the mathematical theory of elasticity (4th éd., p. 132) : "According to this principle the strains that are produced in a body by the applicatio...

The prediction of large-scale hydrodynamic events such as tsunami spread and run-up, dam break, flood, or landslide run-out is a challenging and important problem of applied mathematics and scientific computing. The paper presents a computational approach based on free surface flow models for fluids of complex rheology to simulate such events and phenomena with detail and prediction confidence ...

Connecticut River midges in the genus Axarus are constrained to semi-isolated populations associated with submerged clay exposures, and gene flow between populations is restricted. I sampled larval midges from fifteen spatially separated sites in the Connecticut River and determined karyotypes for 3111 larvae in two closely related species. In one of these species, an undescribed species referr...

We are interested in simulating overland flow on agricultural fields during rainfall events. The model considered is the shallow water system (or Saint-Venant equations) without infiltration, complemented with a friction term. In this context, we definitely have to cope with dry/wet interfaces and water inflow on dry soil. We present a simplified one-dimensional model, discretized with a well-b...

Myotis albescens (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1806) is a vespertilionid bat commonly called the silver-tipped myotis. A small bat with unique frosting of the hair dorsally and ventrally, it is 1 of about 100 species of Myotis worldwide and 1 of 12 species of Myotis in South America. It is one of the most widely distributed species in the genus occurring from southern Mexico to Argentina in diver...

The article analyzes the dynamics of channel processes in irrigation pumping station inlet channels. field studies hydraulic and alluvial sediment regimes supply channels stations are analyzed summarized. water flow under conditions extremely high turbidity variability morphometric characteristics presented. which Saint-Venant equations satisfactorily describe flows bed given. Saint-Venant's tw...