A study on adjusted contact force laws for accelerated large scale discrete element simulations

Particuology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-175

  Kruggel Emden, Harald ^a,b   Stepanek, Frantisek ^a   Munjiza, Ante ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contact force models; Discrete Element Method; Large scale simulations; Particle overlap; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

CONTACT FORCE MODELS; CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT TIME; DISCHARGE RATES; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION; FORCE LAWS; FORCE MODEL; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; NORMAL FORCES; PARTICLE SYSTEMS; SINGLE PARTICLE; VELOCITY PROFILES;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 77949488167     PISSN: 16742001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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