Particle science and technology is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary research area with
its core being the understanding of the relationships between micro-and macroscopic …

Understanding and modelling the dynamic behaviour of particulate systems has been a
major research focus worldwide for many years. Discrete particle simulation plays an …

Fluid flow through packed beds of uniform spheres is studied by a parallel lattice-Boltzmann
(LB) model. The packed beds are obtained from simulations based on discrete element …

We focus in this paper on a potential correlation between yield stress and bleeding. We
suggest that the conditions under which a fresh cement paste is able to display a yield stress …

The role of the friction coefficient, μ, on the jamming properties of disordered, particle
packings is studied using computer simulations. Compressed, soft-sphere packings are …

In this paper, recent advances in the discrete-element method (DEM) for describing motion,
deposition, agglomeration or aggregation of a large number of adhesive spherical particles …

This paper presents a numerical study of the packing of nonspherical particles by the use of
the discrete element method. The shapes considered are oblate and prolate spheroids, with …

Superplasticizers are polymeric dispersants that play a major role in concrete technology.
Despite their ubiquity and much research on their working mechanisms, many questions …

The dependence of powder flowability on particle cohesion can often be captured by a
dimensionless Bond number, however, whether the same is true for powder spreadability …

One of the outstanding problems in understanding the behavior of intermediate-to-silicic
magmatic systems is the mechanism (s) by which large volumes of crystal-poor rhyolite can …