Particles encountered in nature and engineering practice are normally not spherical but of
irregular shapes. Particle shape plays a key role in determining the behaviour of bulk solids …

With increasing the computational resources, the number of publications about coupled
computational fluid dynamics–discrete element method is in the rise in the recent years. This …

Dense particulate reaction system (DPRS) is quite common in many engineering fields such
as energy conversion, petro-chemical processing, mineral processing, chemical …

Debris flows are rapid gravity-driven unsteady flows of highly concentrated mixtures of water
and solid particle material, destroying numerous mountain building structures and traffic …

Modeling and direct numerical simulation of particle-laden flows have a tremendous variety
of applications in science and engineering across a vast spectrum of scales from pollution …

Mineral grains serve as the basic units of rocks. Understanding rock materials at the grain-
scale level allows us to unveil the underlying fundamental mechanisms, thereby facilitating …

Fracture propagation in rocks is a complex thermal-hydro-mechanical (THM) phenomenon
present in geotechnics, such as enhanced geothermal systems, CO 2 sequestration, and …

Shear-induced platelet activation is one of the critical outcomes when blood is exposed to
elevated shear stress. Excessively activated platelets in the circulation can lead to thrombus …

Rock block removal is the prevalent physical mechanism for rock erosion and could affect
the stability of dam foundations and spillways. Despite this, understanding of block removal …

Because of the capacity of in-depth plugging and flowing diversion, the deformable
preformed particle gel (PPG) is used as an effective solution to severe fluid channeling and …