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Led by Prof. Tomás Trewhela, Grupular is based in the Viña del Mar Campus of Universidad Adolfo Ibañez.
Led by Prof. Tomás Trewhela, Grupular is based in the Viña del Mar Campus of Universidad Adolfo Ibañez.
Our research is mainly motivated by granular materials and their dynamics, but we also take great interest in general fluid mechanics and hydraulics. We develop theoretical and experimental work to better understand these topics, always aiming for engineering solutions and applied models. So please take a look at the webpage for publications, current funding and present members.
News
News
20.10.2025 Catalina Salazar, Tomás Fuentes, Manuel Vallejos and Vicente Ortiz are participating and presenting in the XXVII Congreso de Hidráulica at Universidad de Concepción.
07.10.2025 With Germán Varas (PUCV) and Francisco Martínez (PUCV) we hosted the first National Meeting on Granular Research. More than 40 researchers nationwide came to Viña del Mar for an awesome day full of presentations and discussion. We hope it's the first of many!
18.08.2025 New paper published in PoF https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0278378 in collab. with PhD (c) Tianxiong Zhao, Prof. Xia Li (Southeast University), PhD Daisuke Noto and Prof. Hugo Ulloa (University of Pennsylvania)
22.05.2025 Prof. Tomás Trewhela will act as Guest Editor for a Theme Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.
01.05.2025 We welcome back MCI Students Tomás Fuentes & Alexander Navarrete from their short internships.
Some of the topics we're currently working on are the following:
Some of the topics we're currently working on are the following:
Particle-size segregation
Particle-size segregation
Fundamental experiments and theory to understand why particles segregate according to their sizes.
Sediment bedforms
Sediment bedforms
Experiments in hydraulic flumes and convection cells to understand dune dynamics and interactions with structures.
Simple numerical solutions
Simple numerical solutions
For equations coupling granular rheology and particle-size segregation.
Contact
Contact
Prof. Tomás Trewhela
Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
Viña del Mar Campus
Av. Padre Hurtado 750
Viña del Mar, Chile
+56(32)2503675
tomas.trewhela@uai.cl
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