All Stories

  1. On the testing of grain shape corrections to bedload transport equations with grain-resolved numerical simulations

    Article • Earth Surface Dynamics, January 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  2. Coarse-graining particulate two-phase flow

    Article • Granular Matter, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  3. Dynamics of gravity currents under external and internal stratification in geophysical systems

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  4. Thermo-responsive jamming by particle shape change

    Article • Nature Communications, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  5. Unified Flow Rule of Undeveloped and Fully Developed Dense Granular Flows down Rough Inclines

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  6. Dispersive wave propagation in disordered flexible fibers enhances stress attenuation

    Article • Physical Review E, January 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  7. Effects of particle elongation on dense granular flows down a rough inclined plane

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  8. The role of energetic flow structures on the aeolian transport of sediment and plastic debris

    Article • Acta Mechanica Sinica, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  9. The Role of Coherent Airflow Structures on the Incipient Aeolian Entrainment of Coarse Particles

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, April 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  10. Coevolving aerodynamic and impact ripples on Earth

    Article • Nature Geoscience, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  11. The role of hydrodynamics for the spatial distribution of high-temperature hydrothermal vent-endemic fauna in the deep ocean environment

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  12. Influence of slope angle on deposit morphology and propagation of laboratory landslides

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  13. Scaling laws for planetary sediment transport from DEM-RANS numerical simulations

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  14. Anomalous Scaling of Aeolian Sand Transport Reveals Coupling to Bed Rheology

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  15. Shear thinning of non-Brownian suspensions and its variation at different ambient conditions

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  16. Turbidity currents propagating down an inclined slope: particle auto-suspension

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Thomas Pähtz, CHENLIN ZHU

  17. Copebot: Underwater Soft Robot with Copepod-Like Locomotion

    Article • Soft Robotics, December 2022, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  18. Thermohaline Dynamics in the Northern Continental Slope of the South China Sea: A Case Study in the Qiongdongnan Slope

    Article • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  19. Fluid-particle interaction regimes during the evolution of turbidity currents from a coupled LES/DEM model

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, May 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  20. Megaripple mechanics: bimodal transport ingrained in bimodal sands

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  21. Aeolian sand transport: Scaling of mean saltation length and height and implications for mass flux scaling

    Article • Aeolian Research, July 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  22. Unified model of sediment transport threshold and rate across weak and intense subaqueous bedload, windblown sand, and windblown snow

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, February 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  23. Unification of Aeolian and Fluvial Sediment Transport Rate from Granular Physics

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  24. The physics of sediment transport initiation, cessation, and entrainment across aeolian and fluvial environments

    Article • Reviews of Geophysics, January 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  25. The effect of turbulence on drifting snow sublimation

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, October 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  26. Large Effects of Particle Size Heterogeneity on Dynamic Saltation Threshold

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, August 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  27. Local Rheology Relation with Variable Yield Stress Ratio across Dry, Wet, Dense, and Dilute Granular Flows

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  28. Comment on “Distinct Thresholds for the Initiation and Cessation of Aeolian Saltation From Field Measurements” by Raleigh L. Martin and Jasper F. Kok: Alternative Interpretation of Measured Thresholds as Two Distinct Cessation Thresholds

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, December 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  29. Front Velocity and Front Location of Lock-Exchange Gravity Currents Descending a Slope in a Linearly Stratified Environment

    Article • Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, November 2018, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  30. Universal friction law at granular solid-gas transition explains scaling of sediment transport load with excess fluid shear stress

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, October 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  31. The Critical Role of the Boundary Layer Thickness for the Initiation of Aeolian Sediment Transport

    Article • Geosciences, August 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  32. The cessation threshold of non-suspended sediment transport across environments

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, June 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  33. Fluid forces or impacts: What governs the entrainment of soil particles in sediment transport mediated by a Newtonian fluid?

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, July 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  34. Limitations of empirical sediment transport formulas for shallow water and their consequences for swash zone modelling

    Article • Journal of Hydraulic Research, August 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  35. An optimized dispersion–relation-preserving combined compact difference scheme to solve advection equations

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  36. Modeling of Breaching Due to Overtopping Flow and Waves Based on Coupled Flow and Sediment Transport

    Article • Water, August 2015, MDPI AG

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  37. Is it appropriate to model turbidity currents with the three-equation model?

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, July 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  38. Discrete Element Method simulations of the saturation of aeolian sand transport

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, March 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  39. Well-balanced and flexible morphological modeling of swash hydrodynamics and sediment transport

    Article • Coastal Engineering, February 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  40. Electric Field and Humidity Trigger Contact Electrification

    Article • Physical Review X, January 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  41. The fluctuation energy balance in non-suspended fluid-mediated particle transport

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  42. Analytical model for flux saturation in sediment transport

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  43. Flux Saturation Length of Sediment Transport

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  44. Midair Collisions Enhance Saltation

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  45. The apparent roughness of a sand surface blown by wind from an analytical model of saltation

    Article • New Journal of Physics, April 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  46. Jump at the Onset of Saltation

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Thomas Pähtz

  47. Why do particle clouds generate electric charges?

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Thomas Pähtz