© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Block and Panel Caving are based on the action of gravity for ore breakage and transport, so that material reaches the drawpoint through gravity flow. The study of caved rock flow is of vital importance ...

Caving methods rely on gravity to break up and transport large amounts of ore and waste. Massive underground mining is becoming even more prevalent due to the depletion of surface mining reserves. It is thus relevant to ...

Sublevel stoping (SLS) is one of the oldest and most used methods for underground mining. It relies heavily on the use of drilling and blasting techniques to remove the rock, and gravity to transport the broken rock to ...

We report on experimental observations of a gravity-wave instability forced by a highly turbulent free-surface Taylor–Couette flow. Bistability and hysteresis are observed at the bifurcation from a turbulent base state, ...

Hydrodynamic focusing is a key operation in microfluidics, withapplications that range from cell sorting and counting to mixing and reactions.For most of these operations, both stability and precise handling of thefocused ...

Identification and extraction of vortical structures and of waves in a disorganised flow is a mayor challenge in the study of turbulence. We present a study of the spatio-temporal behavior of turbulent flows in the presence ...

Deltas constitute complex depositional systems formed when a land-derived gravity-flow (carrying water and sediments) discharges into a marine or lacustrine standing body of water. However, the complexity of deltaic ...

Usually in block and panel caving mines, when the caving connects to the surface, monitoring of vertical stresses over production drifts is minimal due to the low probability of seismic events. However, when the stresses ...