A convex complementarity approach for simulating large granular flows

Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Tasora, Alessandro ^a   Anitescu, Mihai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SHAPE; COMPLEMENTARITY PROBLEMS; DENSE GRANULAR FLOWS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTIONAL CONTACT; GRANULAR FLOWS; INTEGRATION TIME; MULTI-BODY; OPTIMIZED ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE; PEBBLE-BED; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; RIGID BODY;

CONFINED FLOW; GRANULAR MATERIALS; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL FLOW; PEBBLE BED REACTORS;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 77955244735     PISSN: 15551415     EISSN: 15551423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001371     Document Type: Article

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