Granular World

Luigi La Ragione 

Associate Professor

Current Research Interest

Waves propagation in saturated aggregate of particles; rheology of particle suspensions; quasi-static deformation in granular materials; fluidization in saturated sand bed.

Workshop "Discrete Simulation and Continuum Modeling of Granular Matter", 03-09 May 2025  

Past Editions

Workshop "Discrete Simulation and Continuum Modeling of Granular Matter", 05-11 May 2024 

Workshop "Discrete Simulation and Continuum Modeling of Granular Matter", 20-26 May 2023 

Workshop "Discrete and Continuum Modeling of Natural Systems", 28 May- 03 June 2022

Last Publications

Particle motion in a bed under a rigid plate, submerged and oscillated over its surface, and bed morphologies induced by flexible plates (with A. Prati, M. Larcher, J.T. Jenkins),  Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024

Fluctuations and failure in granular materials: theory and numerical simulations (with G. Recchia, F. Darve, F. Nicot, A. Wautier), Granular Matter, 2024

How vertical oscillatory motion above a saturated sand bed leads to heap formation, (with K. Laurent, J.T. Jenkins and G. Bewley), Physical Review E, 2022

Predictions of microstructure and stress in two-dimensional pure shearing of a dense viscous suspension, (with J.T. Jenkins and R. Seto), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021

Wave propagation in an unconsolidated granular material: A micro-mechanical approach, (with G. Recchia and J.T. Jenkins), Wave Motion, 2020

DEM simulation of anisotropic granular materials: elastic and inelastic behavior, (with G. Recchia,  V. Magnanimo, H. Cheng), Granular Matter, 2020

Bedforms Produced on a Particle Bed by Vertical Oscillations of a Plate, (with K. Laurent, J.T. Jenkins and G. Bewley), Physical Review Letters, 2019