Publications by authors named "Laurent Aprin"
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- * It highlights the significance of selecting appropriate sensors to monitor water status in plants and soil, based on a real-scale pilot study in Montpellier, France, which simulates different planter conditions.
- * The study provides guidelines for creating customized irrigation rules by analyzing various factors, demonstrating an efficient methodology for irrigation management that balances plant needs with sustainable water use in urban settings.
This work is part of a project for evaluating catastrophic tank failures caused by impacts with a high-speed solid body. Previous studies on shock overpressure and drag events have provided analytical predictions, but they are not sufficient to explain ejection of liquid from the tank. This study focuses on the hydrodynamic behavior of the liquid after collision to explain subsequent ejection of liquid.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe have studied the sequence of events that occurs when a high-speed projectile (from 960 ms(-1) to 1480 ms(-1)) penetrates a vessel filled with toxic liquid. We find that prior to liquid ejection several well-defined phases occur, including the phenomenon known as the "hydraulic ram." Then a catastrophic tank failure leads to liquid ejection and fragmentation.
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