High-density sphere packing for discrete element method simulations

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 837-849

  Labra, Carlos ^a   Oñate, Eugenio ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING CIMNE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discrete elements; Mesh generation; Sphere packing

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONSTRAINTS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD SIMULATIONS; DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION; DISCRETE ELEMENTS; DISCRETIZATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT MESHES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH-DENSITY; LOW POROSITY; OPTIMIZATION SCHEME; SPHERE PACKINGS; SURFACE DEFINITION;

CHANNEL CODING; PACKING; SPHERES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 77449120088     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1193     Document Type: Article

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