Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

The discrete element method (DEM) has been confirmed as an effective numerical method
for modelling railway ballast, and successfully used to analyse a wide range of ballast …

The rolling resistance model has been employed in the discrete element modelling in
geomechanics, as an alternative computationally efficient approach to capture the …

This paper presents a novel method to generate realistic packings for discrete modelling of
granular materials. To generate a packing of 2D dense sample in a container of arbitrary …

The inability of simulating the grain shapes of granular media accurately has been an
outstanding issue preventing particle-based methods such as discrete element method from …

Granular flows are omnipresent in nature and industrial processes, but their rheological
properties such as apparent friction and packing fraction are still elusive when inertial …

The contact dynamics (CD) method is presented as a discrete element method for the
simulation of nonsmooth granular dynamics at the scale of particle rearrangements where …

A recent granular rheology based on an implicit “granular fluidity” field has been shown to
quantitatively predict many nonlocal phenomena. However, the physical nature of the field …

Granular flow is common across different fields from energy resource recovery and mineral
processing to grain transport and traffic flow. Migrating particles may jam and form arches …

We present a numerical analysis of the effect of particle elongation on the quasistatic
behavior of sheared granular media by means of the contact dynamics method. The particle …