Abstract
AbstractThe paper of which this is an extended abstract reviews theoretical formulations for flow and airborne powder-snow avalanches. First powder-snow avalanches are considered as plane turbulent gravity currents. Then we propose a two-phase model describing powder-snow avalanches as turbulent binary mixtures of snow granules and air. An analogy is postulated between flow avalanches and the rapid shear flow of granular materials which leads to a non-polar continuum with microstructure taking into account the fluctuation energy of the snow granules.
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