Calculating rotational motion in discrete element modelling of arbitrary shaped model objects

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 17, Issue 6-7, 2000, Pages 703-714

  Kremmer, M ^a   Favier, J F ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete element method; Modelling; Motion; Particles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002878129     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400010340633     Document Type: Article

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