Herr Dr Simon Weis : Wet sand castles inside out
Congratulations to Simon Weis for the successful completion and defense of his PhD thesis “Structural analysis of particulate systems using X-ray tomography”, at the FAU in Erlangen. In only 3 years, Simon performed some great work on the properties of aspherical and wet granular packings and on Set Voronoi diagrams, under my and Matthias Schröter’s supervision.
Simon’s thesis is written as a monograph but comprises work published or submitted manuscripts:
- Simon Weis, Philipp W. A. Schönhöfer, Fabian Schaller, Matthias Schröter, and Gerd E. Schröder-Turk. “Pomelo, a tool for computing Generic Set Voronoi Diagrams of A
spherical Particles of Arbitrary Shape”. In: EPJ Web of Conferences 140 (2017), p. 06007. - Simon Weis and Matthias Schröter. “Analyzing X-ray tomographies of granular packings”. In: Review of Scientific Instruments 88.5 (May 2017), p. 051809.
- Simon Weis, Gerd E. Schröder-Turk, and Matthias Schröter. “Structural similarity between dry and wet sphere packings”, submitted for publication (2018)
- André Schella, Simon Weis, and Matthias Schröter. “Charging changes contact composition in binary sphere packings”. In: Physical Review E 95.6 (June 2017).
- Anais Giustiniani, Simon Weis, Christophe Poulard, Paul Kamm, Francisco García-Moreno, Matthias Schröter, and Wiebke Drenckhan. “Skinny emulsions take on granular matter”. In: Soft Matter (2018). issn: 1744-6848. doi: 10.1039/c8sm00830b
- N. Thyagu, M. Neudecker, Simon Weis, Fabian Schaller, and Matthias Schröter. “Local analysis of the history dependence in tetrahedra packings”. In: Physical Review E. (in review) (2018).
A link to Simon’s thesis will be made available here as soon as the library has published it.
Simon’s thesis was conducted within the DFG resear
ch Group Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems (GPSRS). Their financial contribution is gratefully acknowledged.
Well done, Dr Simon, on a very nice piece of work!