Stochastic generation of particle structures with controlled degree of heterogeneity

Granular Matter

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 437-446

  Schenker, Iwan ^a   Filser, Frank T ^a   Gauckler, Ludwig J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Degree of heterogeneity; Discrete element method; Microstructure generation; Porosity; Void expansion method

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COLLOIDAL MICROSTRUCTURE; COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; DEGREE OF HETEROGENEITY; DENSE PARTICLES; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; EFFICIENT METHOD; EXPANSION METHODS; LOCAL HETEROGENEITY; PARTICLE NUMBERS; PARTICLE STRUCTURE; POROUS PACKINGS; RANDOM PLACEMENT; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; STOCHASTIC GENERATION; VORONOI VOLUME;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EXPANSION; MICROSTRUCTURE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PORE SIZE; TITRATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 77955012741     PISSN: 14345021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-010-0188-5     Document Type: Article

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