[HTML][HTML] The influence of material and process parameters on powder spreading in additive manufacturing

MY Shaheen, AR Thornton, S Luding, T Weinhart - Powder technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing is beginning to mature from a rapid prototyping to
an industrial production technology. However, there are still a lot of fundamental questions …

[HTML][HTML] A detailed gas-solid fluidized bed comparison study on CFD-DEM coarse-graining techniques

MJA De Munck, JB van Gelder, E Peters… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Computational Fluid Dynamics-Discrete Element Method (CFD-DEM) is a
numerical tool used for detailed fluidized bed studies. However, CFD-DEM is …

[HTML][HTML] Fluidized bed gas-solid heat transfer using a CFD-DEM coarse-graining technique

MJA De Munck, E Peters, JAM Kuipers - Chemical Engineering Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Computational Fluid Dynamics-Discrete Element Method (CFD-DEM) is extensively
used for modeling heat transfer in gas-solid fluidized beds. However, CFD-DEM is …

[HTML][HTML] Concurrent multi-scale modeling of granular materials: Role of coarse-graining in FEM-DEM coupling

H Cheng, AR Thornton, S Luding, AL Hazel… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The finite element method (FEM) is commonly used for modeling continuum media, while
particle simulation methods like the so-called discrete element method (DEM) are used for …

[HTML][HTML] MUSEN: An open-source framework for GPU-accelerated DEM simulations

M Dosta, V Skorych - SoftwareX, 2020 - Elsevier
The conceptual design, implementation aspects and main features of an open-source DEM
simulation framework MUSEN have been described. MUSEN has been developed for …

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of clay compression

S Bandera, C O'Sullivan, P Tangney… - Computers and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper outlines a framework for using molecular dynamics to simulate the compression
of kaolinite saturated at alkaline pH (= 8) in a low (1 mM) concentration solution. The …

GPGPU-based parallel computation using discrete elements in geotechnics: A state-of-art review

YK Gujjala, HM Kim, DW Ryu - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2023 - Springer
Large deformation near surface excavations and openings has been frequently simulated in
geotechnical problems. Mesh-based approaches for large-scale simulation have long been …

[HTML][HTML] Rigid clumps in the MercuryDPM particle dynamics code

I Ostanin, V Angelidakis, T Plath, S Pourandi… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Discrete particle simulations have become the standard in science and industrial
applications exploring the properties of particulate systems. Most of such simulations rely on …

Effect of cohesion on structure of powder layers in additive manufacturing

S Roy, MY Shaheen, T Pöschel - Granular Matter, 2023 - Springer
Producing a consistent layer quality for different raw-materials is a challenge for powder-
based additive manufacturing. Interparticle cohesion plays a key role on the powder …

SPIRAL: An efficient algorithm for the integration of the equation of rotational motion

CA del Valle, V Angelidakis, S Roy, JD Muñoz… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
We introduce Spiral, a third-order integration algorithm for the rotational motion of extended
bodies. It requires only one force calculation per time step, does not require quaternion …