Fluid mechanics lies at the heart of many of the physical processes associated with the
nascent deep-sea mining industry. The evolution and fate of sediment plumes that would be …

Abyssal mineral resource exploitation is receiving increasing attention in many countries.
The plume issues caused by deep-sea mining must be studied before commercial mining …

Deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining research activity has substantially increased in recent
years, but the expected level of environmental impact is still being established. One …

As wastewater is commonly disposed of in the form of sediment-laden jet from a submarine
outfall, the sediment movement when the jet evolves in the ambient water and its final …

On particle fountains in a crossflow Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2023), vol. 964, A10, doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.342
On particle fountains in a crossflow Eric L. Newland1,† and Andrew W. Woods1 1Institute of …

We present new experiments of particle-driven turbulent plumes issuing from a constant
source of dense particle-laden fluid, with buoyancy flux,. As the particles sediment, they form …

With the increase in demand for metal resources, research on deep-sea polymetallic nodule
mining has been reinvigorated, but the problem of its environmental impact cannot be …

We report the characteristics of Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities (RTI) occurring at the interface
between a suspension of granular particles and a clear fluid. The time evolution of these …

We present a series of experiments to illustrate the dynamics of positively or negatively
buoyant particle-laden plumes in a cross-flow, with relevance for the discharge of sediment …

Many natural and man-made processes such as subsea blowouts entail an ejection of a
complex mixture of gas-liquid-solid into a flowing ambient, resulting in the formation of three …