Particles encountered in nature and engineering practice are normally not spherical but of
irregular shapes. Particle shape plays a key role in determining the behaviour of bulk solids …

Nanotoxicology studies toxicity of nanomaterials and has been widely applied in biomedical
researches to explore toxicity of various biological systems. Investigating biological systems …

We have mapped out the complete phase diagram of hard spherocylinders as a function of
the shape anisotropy L/D. Special computational techniques were required to locate phase …

An overview is given of theory and experiments on liquid crystal phases which appear in
solutions of elongated colloidal particles or stiff polymers. The Onsager (1949) virial theory …

Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study
of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical …

Granular materials in industrial applications or nature usually consist of a wide variety of
differently formed particles. Very often the shape of the involved objects does not even …

The objective of this paper is to identify a numerical method to simulate motion of a packed
or fluidized bed of fuel particles in combustion chambers, such as a grate furnace and a …

In this first part of a series of two papers, we present in considerable detail a collision-driven
molecular dynamics algorithm for a system of non-spherical particles, within a …

The basis of our theoretical understanding of statistical mechanics of dilute gases dates
back to the nineteenth century. The atomistic description of crystalline solids originated in …

We report extensive Monte Carlo simulations of two systems with 512 and 1000 particles
interacting with a Gay–Berne potential with strength parameters (µ= 1, ν= 3) that enhance …