publications

Need some articles? They are available in the journal web pages, in HAL or  in the arXiv.org e-print archive. You can also  contact me patrick.richard[-at-]univ-eiffel.fr or visit my web page at the University Gustave Eiffel .

This page is under construction please apologize any broken link! For some publications the bibtex file is also available

Last update: September 2023

• 1. Benoît Jabaud, Riccardo Artoni, Gabriel Tobie, Erwan Le Menn, Patrick Richard, Cohesive properties of ice powders analogous to fresh plume deposits on Enceladus and Europa, Icarus, 409, 115859, 2024 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115859

  2. Cheng-Chuan Lin, Riccardo Artoni, Fu-Ling Yang and Patrick Richard, Modelling the wall friction coefficient for a simple shear granular flow in view of the degradation mechanism, Journal of Fluid Mechanics , 969 , A7, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.556

  3. Antonio Pol, Riccardo Artoni, and Patrick Richard, Unified scaling law for wall friction in laterally confined flows of shape anisotropic particles, Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 084302, 2023 https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.084302

  4. Pravin Badarayani,Bogdan Cazacliu, Erdin Ibraim,Riccardo Artoni and Patrick Richard, Sand Rubber Mixtures under Oedometric Loading: Sand-like vs. Rubber-like Behavior, Appl. Sci., 13(6), 3867, 2023 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/6/3867 

  5. Riccardo Artoni, Patrick Richard, Michele Larcher and Jim Jenkins, Self-diffusion in inhomogeneous granular shearing flows, Physical Review E, 106, L032901, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.L032901. (arxiv, hal, pre)

  6. Antonio Pol, Riccardo Artoni, Patrick Richard, Paulo Ricardo Nunes da Conceição and Fabio Gabrieli, Kinematics and shear-induced alignment in confined granular flows of elongated particles, The New Journal of Physics, 24, 073018, 2022, Open Access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac7d6d   (pdf, New Journal of Physics)

  7. Patrick Richard, Alexandre Valance, Renaud Delannay, Philippe Boltenhagen, Granular surface flows confined between flat, frictional walls. Part 1. Kinematics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 940, A30, 2022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.245  (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, arxiv, hal)

  8. Pravin R. Badarayani, Riccardo Artoni, Bogdan Cazacliu, Erdin Ibraim and Patrick Richard, Segregation of sand-rubber chips mixtures subject to vertical tapping under confinement, Powder Technology, 393, 764-772, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2021.08.008  (Powder Technology)

  9. Monica Tirapelle, Andrea C. Santomaso, Patrick Richard and Riccardo Artoni, Experimental investigation and numerical modelling of density-driven segregation in an annular shear cell, Advanced Powder Technology, 32, 1305-1317 (2021) (Adv. Powder Tech. arxiv, HAL).

  10. Riccardo Artoni, Patrick Richard, Michele Larcher and James T. Jenkins, Self-Diffusion Scalings in Dense Granular Flows, Soft Matter, 17, 2596-2602 (2021) (Soft Matter, arxiv, HAL)

  11. Patrick Richard, Riccardo Artoni, Alexandre Valance and Renaud Delannay, Influence of lateral confinement on granular flows: comparison between shear-driven and gravity-driven flows, Granular Matter, 2020, 22, 81 ( Granular Matter, arxiv,  HAL). 

  12. Diego Berzi, Jim Jenkins and Patrick Richard, Extended kinetic theory for granular flow over and within an inclined erodible bed,  Journal of Fluids Mechanics, 2020, 885, A27 (available online, HAL)

  13. Diego Berzi, Jim Jenkins and Patrick Richard, Erodible, granular beds are fragile, Soft Matter, 2019,15, 7173-7178 (Soft Matter, HAL)

  14. Riccardo Artoni, Giovanni Loro, Patrick Richard,  Fabio Gabrieli and  Andrea C. Santomaso,  Drag in wet granular materials, Powder Technology, 356, 231-239 (2019) (available online, HAL)

  15. Riccardo Artoni and Patrick Richard, Coarse graining for granular materials: micro-polar balances, Acta mechanica, 230, 3055-3069 (2019) (available online) 

  16. Yannick Descantes, Fabien Tricoire, Patrick Richard, Classical contact detection algorithms for 3D DEM simulations: Drawbacks and solutions, Computers and Geotechnics, 114, 103134, (2019) (available online, HAL) doi: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2019.103134.

  17. Timur Borykov, Daniel Mège, Anne Mangeney, Patrick Richard, Joanna Gurgurewicz and Antoine Lucas, Empirical investigation of friction weakening of terrestrial and Martian landslides using discrete element models, Landslides, 16, 1121-1140, (2019) (available online, HAL)

  18. Riccardo Artoni, Aurélien Neveu, Yannick Descantes and Patrick Richard, Effect of contact location on the crushing strength of aggregates, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 122, 406-417, (2019) (available online, HAL, arxiv)

  19. Auriane Platzer, Salman Rouhanifar, Patrick Richard, Bogdan Cazacliu and Erdin Ibraim, Sand–rubber mixtures undergoing isotropic loading: derivation and experimental probing of a physical model, Granular Matter 20: 81 (2018), OPEN ACCESS (granular matter) 

  20. Riccardo Artoni, Alberto Soligo, Jean-Marc Paul and Patrick Richard, Shear localization and wall friction in confined dense granular flows, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 849, 395-418 (2018) (available online, HAL).

  21. Houda Maimouni, Sébastien Remond, Florian Huchet, Patrick Richard, Vincent Thiery and Yannick Descantes, Quantitative assessment of the saturation degree of model fine recycled concrete aggregates immersed in a filler or cement paste, Construction and Building Materials, 175, 496-507 (2018) (available online)

  22. Riccardo Artoni and Patrick Richard, Torsional shear flow of granular materials: shear localization and minimum energy principle, Computational Particle Mechanics, 5(1), 3-12 (2018) (available online, HAL)

  23. Florian Huchet, Laurédan Le Guen, Patrick Richard, Maxime Piton, Bodgan Cazacliu, Philppe Semelle, Jérôme Matheus, Hervé Riché & Philippe Tamagny, Influence of asphalt composition upon the thermodynamics performance of a mixing plant, Road and Pavement Material Design,19, 104-119 (2018) (available online)

  24. Renaud Delannay, Alexandre Valance, Anne Mangeney, Olivier Roche. and Patrick Richard, Granular and particle-laden flows: from laboratory experiments to field observations, Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics, 50, 053001 (2017) (available online, HAL)

  25. Laurédan Le Guen, Maxime Piton, Quentin Hénaut, Florian Huchet and Patrick Richard, Heat Convection and Radiation in Flighted Rotary Kilns: A Minimal Model, The Canadian Journal of Chemical engineering, 95, 100-110, (2017) (available online, arxix, HAL).

  26. Aurélien Neveu, Riccardo Artoni, Patrick Richard and Yannick Descantes, Fracture of granular materials composed of arbitrary grain shapes: A new cohesive interaction model, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 95, 308-319, (2016) dowload(JMPS, arxiv, hal) BIBTEX File

  27. Riccardo Artoni and Patrick Richard, Effective wall friction in wall-bounded 3D dense granular flows, Physical Review Letters, 115, 158001 (2015) download (PRL, arxiv, hal) BITEX File

  28. Nicolas Brodu, Renaud Delannay, Alexandre Valance and Patrick Richard, New patterns in high-speed granular flows, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 769, 218- 228, (2015) download (JFM, arxiv, hal) BIBTEX File

  29. Riccardo Artoni and Patrick Richard, Average balance equations, scale dependence, and energy cascade for granular materials, Phys. Rev. E 91, 032202 (2015) download (PRE, arxiv, hal) BIBTEX File

  30. Dalila Vescovi, Diego Berzi, Patrick Richard and Nicolas Brodu, Plane shear flows of frictionless spheres: Kinetic theory and 3D soft-sphere discrete element method simulations, Phys. Fluids 26, 053305 (2014) download (PoF, arxiv, hal) BIBTEX File

  31. Vladimir Y. Zaitsev, Vitalyi E. Gusev, Vincent Tournat, and Patrick Richard, Slow Relaxation and Aging Phenomena at the Nanoscale in Granular Materials, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 108302 (2014) download  (PRL, arxiv) BIBTEX File

  32. Merline Tankeo, Patrick Richard and Edouard Canot, Analytical solution of the µ(I)-rheology for fully developed granular flows in simple configurations, Granular Matter, 15, p 881-891, (2013), download (granular matter, arxiv) BIBTEX File

  33. Nicolas Brodu, Patrick Richard and Renaud Delannay, Shallow granular flows down flat frictional channels: Steady flows and longitudinal vortices, Physical Review E 87, 022202 (2013) , download (PRE, HAL) BIBTEX File

  34. Jean-François Camenen, Yannick Descantes and Patrick Richard, Effect of confinement on dense packings of rigid frictionless spheres and polyhedra, Physical Review E, 86, 061317 (2012), download (PRE, HAL) BIBTEX File

  35. Danielle Tan, Patrick Richard, James T. Jenkins, A model for the onset of oscillations near the stopping angle in an inclined granular flow, Eur. Phys. J. E (2012) 35: 122, download (EPJE, HAL) BIBTEX File

  36. Massimo Pica Ciamarra , Patrick Richard , Matthias Schröter and Brian P. Tighe, Statistical mechanics for static granular media: open questions, Soft Matter 2012,8, 9731-9737. download (Soft Matter, HAL) BIBTEX File

  37. Patrick Richard, Sean McNamara and Merline Tankeo, Relevance of numerical simulations to booming sand, Phys. Rev. E, 85, 010301 (2012). abstract & download (PRE) BIBTEX file

  38. Sébastien Kiesgen de Richter Vladimir Yu Zaitsev, Patrick Richard, Renaud Delannay, Gérard Le Caer and Vincent Tournat, Experimental evidence of aging and slow restoration of the weak-contact configuration in tilted 3D granular packings, Journal of statistical mechanics, P11023 (2010). abstract & download (arxiv) or (JSTAT) BIBTEX file

  39. Jean-Francois Metayer, Patrick Richard, Alain Faisant and Renaud Delannay, Electrically induced tunable cohesion in granular systems, Journal of statistical mechanics, P08003 (2010). abstract & download (arxiv) or (JSTAT) BIBTEX file

  40. Gaelle Recher, Denis Rouede, Patrick Richard, Antoine Simon, Jean-Jaques Bellanger, Francois Tiaho, Three distinct sarcomeric patterns of skeletal muscle revealed by SHG and TPEF Microscopy, Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 22, pp. 19763-19777 (2009). abstract & download Optics Express BIBTEX file

  41. Sean McNamara, Patrick Richard, Sebastien Kiesgen de Richter, Gerard Le Caer, and Renaud Delannay, "Measurement of granular entropy", Phys. Rev. E 80, 031301 (2009). abstract & download (PRE) BIBTEX file .

  42. Patrick Richard, Alexandre Valance, Jean-François Metayer, Paul Sanchez, Jérôme Crassous, Michel Y. Louge and Renaud Delannay, "Rheology of confined granular flows: Scale invariance, glass transition and friction weakening", Physical Review Letters, 101, 248002 (2008). abstract & download (PRL) BIBTEX file .

  43. Vladimir Yu. Zaitsev, Patrick Richard, Renaud Delannay, Vincent Tournat and Vitalyi E. Gusev, "Pre-avalanche structural rearrangements in the bulk of granular medium: experimental evidence, Europhysics Letters, 83, 64003, (2008) DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/83/64003. abstract & download (EPL) BIBTEX file.

  44. Patrick Richard and Nicolas Taberlet, "Recent advances in D.E.M. simulations of grains in a rotating drum", Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1345-1348 (2008) DOI: 10.1039/b717129c. abstract & download (Soft Matter) BIBTEX file.

  45. Jérôme  Crassous, Jean-François Metayer, Patrick Richard and Claude Laroche, "Experimental study of a creeping granular flow at very low velocity", Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and experiment, P03009 (2008). abstract & download (JSTAT) BIBTEX file.

  46. N. Taberlet, P. Richard and R. Delannay, "The effect of sidewall friction on dense granular flows", Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 55, 230-234 (2008). abstract & download (sciencedirect) BIBTEX file.

  47. Ph. Ribière, P. Richard, P. Philippe, D. Bideau and R. Delannay , "On the existence of stationary states during granular compaction", The European Physical Journal E, 22, 249-253 (2007).  abstract&download (EPJE or arxiv) BIBTEX file.

  48. N. Taberlet, P. Richard, J.T. Jenkins and R. Delannay, "Density inversion in rapid granular flows: the supported regime", The European Physical Journal E, 22, 17-24 (2007).  abstract&download (EPJE) BIBTEX file.

  49. R. Delannay, M. Louge, P. Richard, N. Taberlet and A. Valance, " Towards a theoretical picture of dense granular flows down inclines", Nature Materials 6, 99–108 (2007). abstract&download (nature materials) BIBTEX file.

  50. W. Bi, R. Delannay, P. Richard, et A. Valance, "Experimental study of two-dimensional, monodisperse, frictional-collisional granular flows down an inclined chute", Physics of Fluids 18, 123302 (2006), abstract&download  (POF) BIBTEX file

  51. N. Taberlet, P. Richard and E.J. Hinch, " The S-shape of a granular pile in a rotating drum", Phys. Rev. E 73, 050301 (2006), abstract&download  (PRE or arxiv) BIBTEX File.

  52. Nicolas Taberlet, Michael Newey, Patrick Richard and Wolfgang Losert, On axial segregation in tumbler flows: experimental and numerical study,  J. Stat. Mech.  (2006) P07013. abstract&download (JStatMech ) BIBTEX File

  53. N. Taberlet and P. Richard, "Diffusion of a granular pulse in a rotating drum", Physical Review E 73(4) 041301 (2006). abstract&download (PRE or arxiv) BIBTEX File.

  54. P. Ribière, P. Richard, R. Delannay, D. Bideau, M. Toiya and W. Losert, "Effect of Rare Events on Out-of-Equilibrium Relaxation", Physical Review Letters 95, 268001 (2005). abstract&download ( PRL or arxiv ) BIBTEX File. 

  55. P. Ribière, P. Philippe, P. Richard, R. Delannay and D. Bideau, "Slow compaction of granular systems",  Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 17, S2743-S2754 (2005). abstract&download (J. Phys. : Condens. Matter) BIBTEX File

  56. W. Bi, R. Delannay, P. Richard, N. Taberlet and A. Valance, "Two- and three-dimensional confined granular chute flows: experimental and numerical results", Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 17, S2457-S2480 (2005). abstract&download (J. Phys. : Condens. Matter) BIBTEX File

  57. P. Richard, M. Nicodemi, R. Delannay, P. Ribière et D. Bideau, "Slow relaxation and compaction of granular systems", Nature Materials, 4, 121-128 (2005) Nature Materials BIBTEX File.

  58. P. Ribière, P. Richard, D. Bideau and R. Delannay, "Experimental compaction of anisotropic granular media ", The European Physical Journal E, 16, 415-420 (2005) ( EPJE or arxiv ) BIBTEX File.

  59. P. Ribière, P. Richard, R. Delannay and D. Bideau, "Importance of convection in the compaction mechanisms of anisotropic granular media ", Physical Review E 71, 011304 (2005). abstract&download ( PRE or arxiv ) BIBTEX File.

  60. N. Taberlet, P. Richard, E. Henry and R. Delannay, "The growth of a Super Stable Heap: An experimental and numerical study", Europhysics Letters, 68 (4), pages 515-521 (2004) abstract&download (EPL or arxiv) BIBTEX File.

  61. . Taberlet, W. Losert and P. Richard, "Understanding the dynamics of segregation bands of simulated granular material in a rotating drum ", Europhysics Letters, 68 (4), pages 522-528 (2004) abstract&download (EPL or arxiv) BIBTEX File.

  62. GDR MiDi, "On dense granular flows", The European Physical Journal E 14 ,  pages 341-365 (2004) abstract&download (EPJE or arxiv) BIBTEX File.

  63. N. Taberlet, P. Richard, A. Valance, W. Losert, J.-M. Pasini, J. T. Jenkins and R. Delannay, "Superstable Granular Heap in a Thin Channel", Physical Review Letters. 91, pages 264301 (2003). (PRL) BIBTEX File

  64. G. Berton, R. Delannay, P. Richard, N. Taberlet and A. Valance, 2D inclined chute flows : transverse motion and segregation, Physical Review E,  68, pages 051303 (2003) (PRE) BIBTEX File.

  65. Patrick Richard, Pierre Philippe, Fabrice Barbe, Stéphane Bourlès, Xavier Thibault and Daniel Bideau, Analysis by X-ray microtomography of a granular packing undergoing compaction, Phys. Rev E 68, 020301 (2003). abstract&download ( arxiv or PRE ) BIBTEX File.

  66. P. Richard, T. Prasse, J.Y. Cavaillé, L. Chazeau, C. Gauthier and J. Duchet, "Reinforcement of rubbery epoxy by carbon nanofibres", Materials Science and Engineering: A  352,  344-348 (2003) sciencedirect BIBTEX File.

  67. V. Luchnikov, A. Gervois, P. Richard, L. Oger and J.-P. Troadec, Cristallization of dense hard sphere packings : competition of fcc and hcp close order, Journal of Molecular Liquids,  96-97, 185-194, (2002). abstract&download ( sciencedirect ) BIBTEX File.

  68. P. Richard, J-P. Troadec, L. Oger and A. Gervois, A model of binary assemblies of spheres, The European Physical Journal E,  6 , pages 295-303, (2001). abstract&download ( EPJE ) BIBTEX File.

  69. P. Richard, J-P. Troadec, L. Oger and A. Gervois, Effect of the anisotropy of the cells on the topological properties of 2D and 3D froths ,  Physical Review E, 63,  062401 (2001). abstract&download ( PRE ) BIBTEX File. 

  70. L. Oger, P. Richard, J-P. Troadec and A. Gervois, Comparison of two representations of a random cut of identical sphere packing, The European Physical Journal B, 14, pages 403-406, (2000). abstract&download ( EPJB ) BIBTEX File.

  71. P. Richard, A. Gervois, L. Oger and J.-P. Troadec, Order and disorder in hard sphere packings, Europhysics Letters, 48 (4), pages 415-420, (1999). abstract&download ( EPL ) BIBTEX File

  72. P. Richard, L. Oger, J-P. Troadec and A. Gervois, Geometrical characterization of hard sphere systems, Physical Review E, 60(4), pages 4551-4558, (1999).abstract&download (PRE) BIBTEX File

  73. P. Richard, L.Oger, L. Samson, J. Lemaître and N.N. Medvedev, Application of the Voronoi tessellation to study transport and segregation of grains inside 2D and 3D packings of spheres, Granular Matter , 1, pages 203-211, (1999). abstract&download ( granular matter ). BIBTEX File

  74. P. Richard, L. Oger, J.P. Troadec and A. Gervois, Tessellation of binary assemblies of spheres, Physica A, 259, pages 205-221, (1998). abstract&download ( sciencedirect ). BIBTEX File