Cohesion in Particulate media (CohPa)
CohPa is a project funded in 2023 by the European Union through the Horizon Europe Programme under the European Research Council. The project is conducted at IUSTI, a CNRS and Aix-Marseille University laboratory.
How grains flow ? Can we predict the behavior of sand, snow, powders and more generally of a collection of particles? In many situations both in nature or industry, this question is of importance to predict avalanches, landslides, or designing silos and industrial processes. In many applications, grains also present cohesion and predicting their behavior is a challenge. Sticky or humid grains, powders, snow, fibers are examples of granular media having difficulties to flow, with clogging, agglomeration, intermittency. The CohPa project aims at a fundamental understanding of the behavior of cohesive granular materials, by combining experimental, numerical and theoretical approaches.
NEWS
- CohPa welcomes a new student in the team!From the 1st of November 2025, Etienne Minnaert is an ERC CohPa PhD at CNRS!
- The ERC CohPa team published an articlePublished in Physical Review Fluids with Denis Dumont as first author, the article entitled « Discontinuous shear thickening in dry granular materials induced by non-Coulombian friction » is available here. Discontinuous shear thickening… Lire la suite : The ERC CohPa team published an article
- CohPa welcomes the first PhD student of the team!From the 1st of October 2024, Maxime Lajeunesse has become the first PhD student of the ERC CohPa team at IUSTI!
- Olivier Pouliquen received the Weissenberg Award!At the Annual European Rheology Conference 2024 organized in April in Leeds, Olivier Pouliquen received the Weissenberg Award.
- April’s arrivals: three new members in the teamWelcome to the new faces of CohPa! After the recruitment of Francisco M. Rocha last year, Olivier Pouliquen recruited three new post-docs to work on the ERC. Denis Dumont and Vincent Bertin arrived on the 1st of April and Anjishnu Choudhury followed on the 15th of the same month.
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