• Tapped granular packings described as complex networks 

    Arévalo, Roberto; Pugnaloni, Luis; Maza, Diego; Zuriguel, Iker (Taylor and Francis, 2013)
    We characterize the structure of simulated two-dimensional granular packings using con- cepts from complex networks theory. The packings are generated by a simulated tapping protocol, which allows us to obtain states in ...
  • Two approaches to quantification of force networks in particulate systems 

    Basak, Rituparna; Carlevaro, Manuel; Kozlowski, Ryan; Cheng, Chao; Pugnaloni, Luis A.; Kramár, Miroslav; Zheng, Hu; Socolar, Joshua E. S.; Kondic, Lou (2021-02-24)
    The interactions between particles in particulate systems are organized in ‘force networks’, mesoscale features that bridge between the particle scale and the scale of the system as a whole. While such networks are known ...
  • Universal features of the stick-slip dynamics of an intruder moving through a confined granular medium 

    Pugnaloni, Luis; Carlevaro, Manuel; Kozlowski, Ryan; Zheng, Hu; Kondic, Lou; Socolar, Joshua E. S.; 0000-0001-5766-6514; 0000-0003-3528-7614; 0000-0002-2602-038X; 0000-0002-9606-9947; 0000-0001-6966-9851; 0000-0003-0532-7099 (2022-04-21)
    Experiments and simulations of an intruder dragged by a spring through a two-dimensional annulus of granular material exhibit robust force fluctuations. At low packing fractions (φ < φ0), the intruder clears an open ...
  • Wang Landau algorithm for entropic sampling of arch based microstates in the volume ensemble of static granular packings 

    Slobinsky, Demian; Pugnaloni, Luis (Papers in Physics, 2015)
    We implement the Wang-Landau algorithm to sample with equal probabilities the static configurations of a model granular system. The "non-interacting rigid arch model" used is based on the description of static configurations ...