Granular Dynamics, Contact Mechanics and Particle System Simulations A DEM study /

• Main Author: Thornton, Colin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Particle Technology Series, 24
• Subjects: Physics.; Chemometrics.; Chemical engineering.; Fluids.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Math. Applications in Chemistry.

This book is devoted to the Discrete Element Method (DEM) technique, a discontinuum modelling approach that takes into account the fact that granular materials are composed of discrete particles which interact with each other at the microscale level. This numerical simulation technique can be used b...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Theoretical Background
• Contact Mechanics
• Other Contact Force Models
• Particle Impact
• Agglomerate Impacts
• Fluidised Beds
• Quasi-Static Deformation
• Index.