A fundamental understanding of the underlying physics of granular (particulate) systems is
not only of academic interest, but is also highly relevant for industrial applications …

Granular physics has made considerable progress during the past decades in the
understanding of static and dynamic properties of large ensembles of interacting …

Cement setting and cohesion are governed by the precipitation and growth of calcium-
silicate-hydrate, through a complex evolution of microstructure. A colloidal model to describe …

Partially molten rocks, often called a mush, are examples of a hydrogranular mixture where
the dynamics are controlled by both fluid and crystal‐crystal interactions. An obstacle to …

Biomass is a renewable and sustainable energy resource. Current design of biomass
handling and feeding equipment leverage both experiments and numerical modeling. This …

A discrete element model based on super-ellipsoids was used to simulate cylindrical particle
flow. The model can describe a cylindrical particle accurately provided the shape indices of …

With the advancement of renewable energy, the processing and handling of biomass
feedstocks has drawn enormous research interest. The key to economically viable and …

In particulate soft matter systems the average number of contacts Z of a particle is an
important predictor of the mechanical properties of the system. Using x-ray tomography, we …

In particulate systems with short-range interactions, such as granular matter or simple fluids,
local structure determines the macroscopic physical properties. We analyse local structure …

Despite the common use of nonspherical catalyst pellets in chemical engineering
applications, the packing structures of such pellets have not been as systematically studied …