Large scale industrial DEM modelling

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 21, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 169-204

  Cleary, Paul W ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discrete manufacturing; Modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD (DEM); DISCRETE MANUFACTURING; MODELING;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 2942550862     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400410519730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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