Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

[14] Maches. Z., M. Houssais, A. Sauret, and E. Meiburg, "Settling of two rigidly connected spheres." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, accepted. (Open Source Link)  [Maches et al., 2024]

[13] Voigtländer, A.*, M. Houssais*, K. A., Bacik, I. C., Bourg, J. C., Burton, K. E. Daniels, S. S. Datta, E. Del Gado, N. S. Deshpande, O. Devauchelle, B. Ferdowsi, R. Glade, L. Goehring, I J. Hewitt, D. Jerolmack, R. Juanes, A. Kudrolli, C. Lai, W. Li, C. Masteller, K. Nissanka, A. M. Rubin, H. A. Stone, J. Suckale, N. M. Vriend, J. S. Wettlaufer, J. Q. Yang, "Soft matter physics of the ground beneath our feet." Soft Matter - perspective, 2024. (Open Source Link)  [Voigtländer & Houssais et al., 2024]

[12] Cúñez, F. D., E. M. Franklin, M. Houssais, P. Arratia, and D. J. Jerolmack, "Strain hardening by sediment transport", Phys. Rev. Research, 2022.  [Cúñez et al., 2022]

[11]  M. Houssais, C. Maldarelli and J. M. Morris,  “Athermal sediment creep triggered by porous flow”. Physical Review Fluids - Letter, 2021. (ArXiv link)

[10]  M. Houssais, C. Maldarelli and J. M. Morris,  “Soil granular dynamics on-a-chip: fluidization inception under scrutiny”. Lab Chip, 2019. DOI: 10.1039/C8LC01376D (preprint)

[9] A. Damsgaard, J. Suckale, J. A. Piotrowski, M. Houssais, M. R. Siegfried, and H. A. Fricker, Sediment plasticity controls channelization of subglacial meltwater in soft beds. Journal of Glaciology, 2017. (PDF)

[8] B. Ferdowsi, C. P. Ortiz, M. Houssais, D. J. Jerolmack, River-bed armoring as a granular segregation phenomenon. Nature Communications, 2017. (Link)

[7] Houssais, M., and D. J. Jerolmack, Toward a unifying constitutive relation for sediment transport across environments.  Geomorphology, 2017. (PDF)

[6] Houssais, M., C. P. Ortiz, D. J. Durian and D. J. Jerolmack, Rheology of sediment transported by a laminar flow.  Physical Review E. 2016. (Link)

 [5] Houssais, M.*, C. P. Ortiz*, D. J. Durian and D. J. Jerolmack, Onset of sediment transport is a continuous transition driven by fluid shear and granular creep, Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/ncomms7527, 2015. (OPEN ACCESS)

 [4] Gaurav, K., F. Métivier, O. Devauchelle, R. Sinha, H. Chauvet, M. Houssais, and H. Bouquerel, Morphology of the Kosi megafan channels, Earth Surf. Dynam. Discuss.,  doi:10.5194/esurfd-2-1-2014, 2014. (PDF)

 [3] Lajeunesse, E., O. Devauchelle, M. Houssais, and G. Seizilles, Tracer dispersion in bedload transport, Adv. Geosci., doi:10.5194/adgeo-37-1-2013, 2013. (PDF)

[2] Houssais, M. and E. Lajeunesse, Bedload transport of a bimodal sediment bed, Journal of Geophysical Research,doi:10.1029/2012JF002490., 2012. (PDF)

[1] Houssais, M., E. Lajeunesse and O. Devauchelle (2011), Velocity of the particles entrained by a turbulent flow above an erodible bed composed of a mixture of two grains sizes, River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, 2011. (PDF)

*: Authors equally contributed.

Thesis

PhD Thesis (French) : Étude expérimentale du transport en rivière par charriage d’un sédiment bimodal : vers un modèle général du transport à plusieurs tailles de grains (PDF)