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Overview

Christophe Ancey is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions to hydrology, sediment transport, and related fields.

Their work spans several main topics, including:

  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Within these domains, Ancey has published extensively in the following subfields:

  • Ecology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Soil Science
  • Global and Planetary Change

Christophe Ancey's publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • Bedload transport: a walk between randomness and determinism. Part 1. The state of the art (2020) in Journal of Hydraulic Research
  • Bedload transport: a walk between randomness and determinism. Part 2. Challenges and prospects (2020) in Journal of Hydraulic Research
  • Estimating Mean Bedload Transport Rates and Their Uncertainty (2020) in Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Although not an author, Ancey's recent research environment relates to studies published in journals including:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Experiments in Fluids

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Journal of Hydraulic Research
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Experiments in Fluids

Ancey has collaborated regularly with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include Kumud Acharya, Newsha Ajami, Holly Barnard, Alberto Bellin, and Emily S. Bernhardt, each contributing multiple joint publications.

The scientist's interdisciplinary approach bridges engineering and environmental science by integrating computational mechanics and policy-related aspects of environmental management.

Best Publications

  • Plasticity and geophysical flows: A review

    Christophe Ancey

  • Rheophysical classification of concentrated suspensions and granular pastes

    P. Coussot;C. Ancey

  • Refractive-index and density matching in concentrated particle suspensions: a review

    Sébastien Wiederseiner;Nicolas Andreini;Gaël Epely-Chauvin;Christophe Ancey

  • Entrainment and motion of coarse particles in a shallow water stream down a steep slope

    Christophe Ancey;A. C. Davison;T. B. Böhm;M. Jodeau

  • Improved SPH methods for simulating free surface flows of viscous fluids

    Jiannong Fang;Aurèle Parriaux;Martin Rentschler;Christophe Ancey

  • Rheological interpretation of deposits of yield stress fluids

    Philippe Coussot;Sébastien Proust;Christophe Ancey

  • Dry granular flows down an inclined channel: experimental investigations on the frictional-collisional regime.

    Christophe Ancey

  • Yield stress for particle suspensions within a clay dispersion

    Christophe Ancey;Hélène Jorrot

  • A theoretical framework for granular suspensions in a steady simple shear flow

    Christophe Ancey;Philippe Coussot;Pierre Evesque

  • Segregation, recirculation and deposition of coarse particles near two-dimensional avalanche fronts

    J. M. N. T. Gray;C. Ancey

  • Multi-component particle size segregation in shallow granular avalanches

    J. M. N. T. Gray;Christophe Ancey

  • Experimental investigation into segregating granular flows down chutes

    Sébastien Wiederseiner;Nicolas Andreini;Gaël Épely-Chauvin;Gaudenz Moser

  • Underlying Asymmetry within Particle-size Segregation

    K. van der Vaart;P. Gajjar;G. Epely-Chauvin;N. Andreini

  • Statistical description of sediment transport experiments

    Christophe Ancey;Tobias Böhm;Magali Jodeau;Philippe Frey

  • A microstructural approach to bed load transport: mean behaviour and fluctuations of particle transport rates

    C. Ancey;J. Heyman

  • Stochastic modeling in sediment dynamics: Exner equation for planar bed incipient bed load transport conditions

    Christophe Ancey

  • An exact solution for ideal dam‐break floods on steep slopes

    Christophe Ancey;R. M. Iverson;Martin Rentschler;R. P. Denlinger

  • The dam-break problem for Herschel-Bulkley viscoplastic fluids down steep flumes

    Christophe Ancey;Steve Cochard

  • Saltating motion of a bead in a rapid water stream.

    Christophe Ancey;Françoise Bigillon;Philippe Frey;Jack Lanier

  • Bedload transport: a walk between randomness and determinism. Part 1. The state of the art

    Christophe Ancey

  • Computing extreme avalanches

    Christophe Ancey;Christophe Ancey;Christian Gervasoni;Christian Gervasoni;Maurice Meunier;Maurice Meunier

  • Front dynamics of supercritical non‐Boussinesq gravity currents

    Christophe Ancey;Steve Cochard;Sébastien Wiederseiner;Martin Rentschler

  • Flow behaviour and runout modelling of a complex debris flow in a clay‐shale basin

    Alexandre Remaître;Jean-Philippe Malet;Olivier Maquaire;Christophe Ancey

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Philippe Malet
Jean-Philippe Malet University of Strasbourg
Jacques Locat
Jacques Locat Université Laval
Maurizio Brocchini
Maurizio Brocchini Marche Polytechnic University
Philippe Coussot
Philippe Coussot Université Gustave Eiffel
Neil J. Balmforth
Neil J. Balmforth University of British Columbia
Emil J. Hopfinger
Emil J. Hopfinger Grenoble Alpes University
Ian Frigaard
Ian Frigaard University of British Columbia
Stefan Luding
Stefan Luding University of Twente
Gary Parker
Gary Parker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matthias Huss
Matthias Huss University of Fribourg

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