Cylindrical object contact detection for use in discrete element method simulations, Part II-Experimental validation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5863-5871

  Kodam, Madhusudhan ^a   Bharadwaj, Rahul ^b   Curtis, Jennifer ^c   Hancock, Bruno ^b   Wassgren, Carl ^a,d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact detection; Cylinders; Discrete element method (DEM); Particle shape; Simulation; Validation

Indexed keywords

CONTACT DETECTION; CYLINDERS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; PARTICLE SHAPE; SIMULATION; VALIDATION;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; GLUING; ROTATION; SPHERES; TIME MEASUREMENT;

TESTING;

EID: 77957347063     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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