Summary
Understanding how mixtures of solid particles and fluids, such as those found in avalanches, volcanic flows, and river sediments, initiate and how fast they propagate is vital for natural hazards and improving engineering models of Earth systems. These particle-laden flows are complex because the solids and fluids interact in diverse ways: sometimes the mixture acts like a solid, other times like a liquid, and often something in between. This project brings together geoscientists, computer scientists, and engineers to develop new models that better capture these behaviors by combining laborato
