For the related papers please see my publications page
Washboarding
is the name of the process which results in unmetalled (unpaved)
roads developing a series of regular bumps with short spacing in
the road surface. The result is called a washboard road, for its
resemblance to the surface of an old-style washboard, or a
corrugated road. I've worked on this problem with collaborators
for several years. Here
are some of our results.
Avalanche research
Simulations.
Saltation
research
In the
late from 1996 to 2011 I worked in Japan at the Institute for Low
Temperature Science at the University of Hokkaido with Kouichi
Nishimura. On of the projects I worked on was the Miyanomori Ping-Pong
Ball Avalanches. These experiments took place over several
years and involved dropping up to 650,000 ping-pong balls down a
ski jump.
Jim McElwaine
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