Selecting a suitable time step for discrete element simulations that use the central difference time integration scheme

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 21, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 278-303

  O'Sullivan, Catherine ^a   Bray, Jonathan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Simulation; Time measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

CONTACT STATE; CRITICAL TIME; DISCRETE ELEMENT; TIME STEPS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 2942542940     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400410519794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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