Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE), CAS

Research Group of Prof. Zhou Gongdan

刘佳林 (JIALIN LIU)

Position: Ph.D. student
Institution: Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Department / Laboratory: Research Group of Prof. Gordon G.D. Zhou Research Area: Natural Hazards | Geotechnical Engineering | Hydraulic Engineering | Office Address: 533
Email: liujialin@imde.ac.cn

About Me

Jialin Liu, PhD student in Geotechnical Engineering, supervised by Prof. Gordon G.D. Zhou. My research focuses on the failure of cascading landslide dams induced debris flow and its scale amplification mechanism. Combining large-scale physical flume experiments and numerical simulations, my study reveals that the positive feedback between erosion and sediment entrainment during cascading failure is the core driving force for scale amplification. With continuous sediment entrainment, the fluid density increases significantly, and flash flood gradually transforms into high-density debris flow. The results have been published in Engineering Geology, a top journal in geoscience, which can provide important theoretical support for the development of debris flow hazard chain dynamic models and disaster mitigation strategies.

Keywords: landslide dams cascading failure debris flow amplification effect

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Representative Publications (Recent Five Years)

  1. J.L.Liu., Gordon G.D. Zhou, Y.X. Xie, Kahlil F.E. Cui, X.Q. Lu, M. Peng, W. Zhong, G. Bossi(2026).
    Role of sediment entrainment in the flash-flood to debris-flow transition during cascading landslide dam failures.
    Engineering Geology, 364, 108614. DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2026.108614

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