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Kolumban Hutter

Kolumban Hutter

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
68
Citations
16618
World Ranking
441
National Ranking
7

Overview

Kolumban Hutter was affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and contributed to the field of Engineering, focusing primarily on Computational Mechanics and Civil and Structural Engineering. Their research covered topics including Water management and technologies, Granular flow and fluidized beds, Tunneling and Rock Mechanics, Landslides and related hazards, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Hydraulic flow and structures, and Fractional Differential Equations Solutions.

The scientist's frequent co-authors included Willi H. Hager, Óscar Castro-Orgaz, Shu-San Hsiau, Li-Shin Lu, and Andreas Teufel. Collaborations with these researchers supported a variety of publications in several academic venues.

Kolumban Hutter published multiple papers in Comptes Rendus Mécanique, which accounted for four of their published works, and also contributed to the Journal of Mechanics and Fluids. Notable publications included:

  • Correspondence between de Saint-Venant and Boussinesq 2: Boussinesq's professional and private life up to 1886 (2020, Comptes Rendus Mécanique)
  • Correspondence between de Saint-Venant and Boussinesq 3: de Saint-Venant's professional career and private life (2020, Comptes Rendus Mécanique)
  • Discovery and study of abrasion behavior in granular shear flow (2022, Journal of Mechanics)
  • Correspondence between de Saint-Venant and Boussinesq 5: Viscosity and hydraulic resistance (2021, Comptes Rendus Mécanique)
  • A Constitutive Equation of Turbulence (2021, Fluids)

Their research addressed various engineering challenges, with a notable emphasis on hydraulic and granular flow phenomena, as well as sediment transport and landslide processes. The diversity of publication venues and collaborative authorship reflects an interdisciplinary approach within the broader engineering disciplines.

Best Publications

  • The motion of a finite mass of granular material down a rough incline

    S. B. Savage;K. Hutter

  • The dynamics of avalanches of granular materials from initiation to runout. Part I: Analysis

    S. B. Savage;K. Hutter

  • Avalanche Dynamics: Dynamics of Rapid Flows of Dense Granular Avalanches

    Kolumban Hutter;Shiva P. Pudasaini

  • Gravity-driven free surface flow of granular avalanches over complex basal topography

    J. M. N. T. Gray;M. Wieland;K. Hutter

  • Baroclinic Tides: Theoretical Modeling and Observational Evidence

    Vasiliy Vlasenko;Nataliya Stashchuk;Kolumban Hutter

  • Numerical Experiments on the Breaking of Solitary Internal Wavesover a Slope–Shelf Topography

    Vasiliy Vlasenko;Kolumban Hutter

  • Continuum Methods of Physical Modeling

    Kolumban Hutter;Klaus Jöhnk

  • On flows of granular materials

    K. Hutter;K. R. Rajagopal

  • Debris flow modeling: a review

    K. Hutter;B. Svendsen;D. Rickenmann

  • Modelling debris flows down general channels

    Shiva P. Pudasaini;Yongqi Wang;Kolumban Hutter

  • The dynamics of avalanches of granular materials from initiation to runout. Part II. Experiments

    K. Hutter;T. Koch;C. Pluüss;S. B. Savage

  • Pattern formation in granular avalanches

    J. M. N. T. Gray;K. Hutter

  • Numerical studies of Jökulhlaups

    Ulrich Spring;Kolumban Hutter

  • Rapid shear flows of dry granular masses down curved and twisted channels

    Shiva P. Pudasaini;Kolumban Hutter

  • Peristaltic transport of a third-order fluid in a circular cylindrical tube

    T. Hayat;T. Hayat;Yongqi Wang;A. M. Siddiqui;K. Hutter

  • Channelized free-surface flow of cohesionless granular avalanches in a chute with shallow lateral curvature

    M. Wieland;J. M. N. T. Gray;K. Hutter

  • Shock-capturing and front-tracking methods for granular avalanches

    Y. C. Tai;S. Noelle;J. M. N. T. Gray;K. Hutter

  • Two-dimensional spreading of a granular avalanche down an inclined plane Part I. theory

    K. Hutter;M. Siegel;S. B. Savage;Y. Nohguchi

  • Motion of a Granular Avalanche in an Exponentially Curved Chute: Experiments and Theoretical Predictions

    Kolumban Hutter;Thilo Koch

  • The foundations of thermodynamics, its basic postulates and implications. A review of modern thermodynamics

    K. Hutter

Frequent Co-Authors

Yongqi Wang
Yongqi Wang Technical University of Darmstadt
Tasawar Hayat
Tasawar Hayat Quaid-i-Azam University
Ralf Greve
Ralf Greve Hokkaido University
Francesco dell’Isola
Francesco dell’Isola University of L'Aquila
Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern
Saleem Asghar
Saleem Asghar COMSATS University Islamabad
Stuart B. Savage
Stuart B. Savage McGill University
Willi H. Hager
Willi H. Hager ETH Zurich
Luca Placidi
Luca Placidi UniNettuno University
Martin Funk
Martin Funk ETH Zurich

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