Soft Matter Earth & Planetary Physics (SMEPP) Subgroup

Welcome to Hiroaki Katsuragi's SMEPP web page. We are studying experimental soft matter physics relating to earth and planetary phenomena. In particular, granular physics is mainly studied by various experiments. Join us if you are interested in.

Soft Matter Earth and Planetary Science Group

Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, Japan     (admission info)

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RECENT/SELECTED PUBLICATION LIST:



Disordering two-dimensional magnet-particle configurations using bidispersity

K. Tsuchikusa, K. Yamamoto, M. Katsura, C.T. de Paula, J.A.C. Modesto, S. Dorbolo, F. Pacheco Vazquez, Y.D. Sobral, and H. Katsuragi,

J. Chem. Phys., 158, 214501 (2023).


Impact drag force exerted on a projectile penetrating into a hierarchical granular bed

F. Okubo and H. Katsuragi, 

Astron. Astrophys. 664, A147 (2022)


Deformation of a rotated granular pile governed by body-force-dependent friction

T. Irie, R. Yamaguchi, S. Watanabe, and H. Katsuragi,

Phys. Rev. E 104, 064902 (2021)


Undulating compression and multi-stage relaxation in a granular column consisting of dust particles or glass beads

F. Pacheco Vazquez, T. Omura, and H. Katsuragi, 

Phys. Rev. Research 3, 013190 (2021) 


Centroid migration on an impacted granular slope due to the asymmetric ejecta deposition and landsliding

T. Omura, S. Takizawa, and H. Katsuragi, 

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 502, 293 (2021)


Scaling laws for the oblique impact cratering on an inclined granular surface

S. Takizawa and H. Katsuragi 

Icarus 335, 113409 (2020)


Impact-induced energy transfer and dissipation in granular clusters under microgravity conditions

H. Katsuragi and J. Blum, 

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 208001 (2018).

See also Physics - Synopsis: Throwing Dust at Planet Formation.


Void structure stability in wet granular matter and its application to crab burrows and cometary pits

A. Shinoda, S. Fujiwara, H. Niiya, and H. Katsuragi, 

Sci. Rep. 8, 15784 (2018).


Relaxation Dynamics of a Granular Pile on a Vertically-Vibrating Plate

D. Tsuji, M. Otsuki, and H. Katsuragi, 

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 128001 (2018).


The Physics of Protoplanetesimal Dust Agglomerates. IX. Mechanical properties of dust aggregates probed by a solid-projectile impact

H. Katsuragi and J. Blum, 

Astrophys. J. 851, 23 (2017)


Obstacle-shape effect in a two-dimensional granular silo flow field

K. Endo, K. Anki Reddy, and H. Katsuragi, 

Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 094302 (2017).


Sensitivity of Granular Force Chain Orientation to Disorder-induced Metastable Relaxation

N. Iikawa, M. M. Bandi, and H. Katsuragi, 

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 128001 (2016).


Timescale of asteroid resurfacing by regolith convection resulting from the impact-induced global seismic shaking

T. M. Yamada, K. Ando, T. Morota, and and H. Katsuragi, 

Icarus 272, 165 (2016).


Morphology scaling of drop impact onto a granular layer

H.Katsuragi, 

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 218001 (2010).

See also Phys. Rev. Focus 25, Story 20 (2010).


Jamming and growth of dynamical heterogeneities versus depth for granular heap flow

H. Katsuragi, A. R. Abate, and D. J. Durian, 

Soft Matter 6, 3023 (2010).


Unified force law for granular impact cratering

H.Katsuragi and D. J. Durian, 

Nat. Phys. 3, 420 (2007).


Diffusion-induced spontaneous pattern formation on gelation surfaces

H.Katsuragi, 

Europhys. Lett. 73, 793 (2006).  


Explosive fragmentation of a thin ceramic tube using pulsed power

H. Katsuragi, S. Ihara, and H. Honjo, 

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095503 (2005)


Multiaffinity and entropy spectrum of self-affine fractal profiles

H. Katsuragi and H. Honjo, 

Phys. Rev. E 59, 254 (1999).


Complete Publication list

http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevFocus.25.20
https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2016/5/18/proof-pudding

Hiroaki Katsuragi

Professor

Department of Earth and Space Science,

Graduate School of Science,

Osaka University

1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, JAPAN

Phone: +81-(0)6-6850-5799

E-mail: katsuragi ”AT” ess.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp

Converted: April 29, 2021

Open: Aug. 22, 2015