The paper is concerned with dynamics of multi-phase media consisting of a solid permeable material and a compressible Newtonian fluid. Governing macroscopic equations are derived starting from the space-averaged microscopic mass and momentum balances. The Reynolds stress models (i.e., momentum dispersive fluxes) are discussed, and a suitable model is developed. In the case of granular media the...

The invasion of air into porous systems in drying processes is often localized in soft materials, such as colloidal suspensions and granular pastes, and it typically develops in the form of cracks before ordinary drying begins. To investigate such processes, we construct an invasion percolation model on a deformable lattice for cohesionless elastic systems, and with this model we derive the con...

The pressure distribution beneath a conical sandpile, created by pouring sand from a point source onto a rough rigid support, shows a pronounced minimum below the apex (‘the dip’). Recent work of the authors has attempted to explain this phenomenon by invoking local rules for stress propagation that depend on the local geometry, and hence on the construction history, of the medium. We discuss t...

Cohesionless gap-graded soils are susceptible to volumetric internal erosion, also called suffusion, under the action of seepage flow through porous material. More precisely, during suffusion three processes simultaneously take place: detachment, transport and possible filtration fine particles. This paper proposes a new relationship describe development based on energy approach. The proposed i...

The Balsum Bud Cove Formation of the Snooks Arm Group, eastern Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland contains intervals of epiclastic mafic volcanic debrites characterized by textures indicative of gravity flow evolution in a submarine setting. These proximal to distal and aggradational deposits record a downslope change from debris avalanche to cohesionless debris flow processes. This change invo...

The Pliocene Loreto basin is an asymmetrical half graben located on the eastern margin of Baja California Sur, Mexico, which formed by rapid subsidence along the dextral-normal Loreto fault. The southern Loreto basin contains numerous, well exposed coarse-grained Gilbert-type fan deltas that were derived from the footwall of the Loreto fault. Detailed sedimentological study of individual forese...