Comparison of Kinetic Theory and Discrete Element Schemes for Modelling Granular Couette Flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-25

  Popken, Lars ^a   Cleary, Paul W ^b  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discrete element method; Granular flow; Kinetic theory; Shear flow

Indexed keywords

CONFINED FLOW; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRANULAR MATERIALS; KINETIC THEORY; KINETICS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SPHERES;

A-PARTICLES; BINARY-COLLISION; COUETTE FLOWS; DISCRETE ELEMENTS; DISCRETE ELEMENTS METHOD; ELEMENT-BASED; FLOW EQUATIONS; GRANULAR FLOWS; THREE DIMENSIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0006550838     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6292     Document Type: Article

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