[HTML][HTML] Incorporating grain-scale processes in macroscopic sediment transport models: a review and perspectives for environmental and geophysical applications

B Vowinckel - Acta Mechanica, 2021 - Springer
Sediment transport simulations face the challenge of accounting for vastly different scales in
space and time that cannot be tackled by a unifying approach. Instead, processes are …

Suffusion-induced evolution of mechanical and microstructural properties of gap-graded soils using CFD-DEM

Z Hu, Y Zhang, Z Yang - Journal of geotechnical and …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
As a typical form of internal erosion, suffusion refers to the detachment and migration of fine
particles through voids among coarse particles driven by seepage flow. This paper studies …

Settling of cohesive sediment: particle-resolved simulations

B Vowinckel, J Withers, P Luzzatto-Fegiz… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
We develop a physical and computational model for performing fully coupled, grain-resolved
direct numerical simulations of cohesive sediment, based on the immersed boundary …

[HTML][HTML] NUFEB: A massively parallel simulator for individual-based modelling of microbial communities

B Li, D Taniguchi, JP Gedara… - PLoS Computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
We present NUFEB (Newcastle University Frontiers in Engineering Biology), a flexible,
efficient, and open source software for simulating the 3D dynamics of microbial communities …

VOF-DEM study of solid distribution characteristics in slurry Taylor flow-based multiphase microreactors

Z Peng, L Ge, R Moreno-Atanasio, G Evans… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Solid particle distribution determines the reactor internal phases placement and the contact
mode between catalyst particles and the liquid phase, thus plays a key role in dictating the …

Deagglomeration of cohesive particles by turbulence

Y Yao, J Capecelatro - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
We present a numerical study analysing the breakup of a single cohesive particle aggregate
in turbulence. Solid particles with diameters smaller than the Kolmogorov length scale (. A …

[PDF][PDF] Missing links in the study of solute and particle exchange between the sea floor and water column

S Rühl, C Thompson, AM Queirós… - ICES Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Exchanges of solutes and solids between the sea floor and water column are a vital
component of ecosystem functioning in marine habitats around the globe. This review …

Three-dimensional VOF-DEM model for simulating particle dynamics in the liquid slugs of a vertical gas–liquid–solid Taylor flow microreactor

L Ge, Z Peng, R Moreno-Atanasio… - Industrial & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
It proves challenging to analyze the particle dynamics experimentally, particularly in a
multiphase microreactor. A numerical model based on volume of fluid (VOF) coupled with …

Fluid-particle interaction regimes during the evolution of turbidity currents from a coupled LES/DEM model

J Xie, P Hu, T Pähtz, Z He, N Cheng - Advances in Water Resources, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, fluid-particle interactions in lock-exchange turbidity currents (TCs) over a flat
bed are investigated using a model combining LES and DEM (Large-Eddy Simulation and …

[HTML][HTML] Persistent reshaping of cohesive sediment towards stable flocs by turbulence

M Yu, X Yu, AJ Mehta, AJ Manning, F Khan… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Cohesive sediment forms flocs of various sizes and structures in the natural turbulent
environment. Understanding flocculation is critical in accurately predicting sediment …