The role of self-organization during confined comminution of granular materials

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1910, 2010, Pages 231-247

  Ben Nun, Oded ^a   Einav, Itai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comminution; Discrete element method; Granular materials; Self organization

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; FRACTAL DIMENSION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRANULAR MATERIALS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; CONSERVATION LAW; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; DISCRETE-ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; GLOBAL INDEX; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW; SELF-ORGANIZATION; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; SELF-SIMILAR PATTERNS; UNI-AXIAL COMPRESSION;

GRINDING (COMMINUTION);

EID: 73849152599     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0205     Document Type: Article

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