Stability of Geosynthetic Lining Systems is, for a geotechnical standpoint, a complex matter. Three geomechanical questions were identified: sliding of the geosynthetic lining system on slope, pull-out strength of the geosynthetic anchorage at the top of the slope, rain erosion of the cap cover. Research programmes carried out in France on these topics, , are presented. Use of laboratory facili...

Results and Conclusion: In this study, a numerical two-permeability flow model was used to investigate the effects of tyres embedding on the outflow rate of leachate injection. Furthermore, it was coupled with momentum balance equations to determine the local factor of safety of slope stability. The established model was applied to a simplified bioreactor landfill. The simulation results demons...

According to the linearized theory of supersonic flow, both the local slope of the mean surface of a wing producing a specified distribution of lift and the pressure on a wing due to a specified distribution of volume are given as singular double integrals. The numerical evaluation of these is described for planforms with curved subsonic leading edges and supersonic trailing edges for the cases...

Deep-seated slope failures are common features in the mountains of the Raca Unit, Magura Nappe of the Flysch Belt of Western Carpathians. Since they represent very complicated system, understanding of their evolution and triggers still remains unclear. We tried to provide a back-analysis of their development by using a finite difference code (FDM) of continua (Flac 4.0). We confirmed that such ...

In this paper an attempt is made to offer insights into local slope failure mechanisms from the perspective of hydrogeology. The hypothesis examined envisages that the hydraulic conductivity distribution in a weathered profile includes a relatively high hydraulic conductivity zone associated with the jointed rock mass near rockhead. There is evidence locally for such a condition. The groundwate...

Human ventricular tissue as well as several animal ventricular preparations show a biphasic shape of the action potential duration restitution curve, with a local maximum at low diastolic intervals. We study numerically how the location and properties of this nonmonotonicity affect the stability of spiral waves. We find that, depending on the slopes of the ascending and of the descending parts ...

We consider the 2D Muskat equation for the interface between two constant density fluids in an incompressible porous medium, with velocity given by Darcy’s law. We establish that as long as the slope of the interface between the two fluids remains bounded and uniformly continuous, the solution remains regular. The proofs exploit the nonlocal nonlinear parabolic nature of the equations through a...

In this paper, we introduce an extension of Van Leer’s slope limiter for two-dimensional discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods on arbitrary unstructured quadrangular or triangular grids. The aim is to construct a non-oscillatory shock capturing DG method for the approximation of hyperbolic conservative laws without adding excessive numerical dispersion. Unlike some splitting techniques that are l...

Repeat sequences, especially mobile elements, make up large portions of most eukaryotic genomes and provide enormous, albeit commonly underappreciated, evolutionary potential. We analyzed repeatomes of Drosophila melanogaster that have been diverging in response to a microclimate contrast in Evolution Canyon (Mount Carmel, Israel), a natural evolutionary laboratory with two abutting slopes at a...

Topographic decorrelation due to the local surface slope has been an obstacle to interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) applications. A modified spatial decorrelation function is derived as a function of the baseline and topography. This function explains the origin of the total topographic decorrelation phenomenon on the slopes directly facing radar illumination and layover, which ma...