Gas-solid fluidized beds have drawn the attention of engineers and researchers as an
effective technology for a large variety of applications, and numerical simulations can play …

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 …

Dense gas-solid reacting flow is practised in many industrial processes where the particle
number may be huge and cannot be modelled using the conventional CFD-DEM approach …

Pneumatic conveying is an important operation used in many industries for the
transportation of granular materials from one place to another. In recent years, many efforts …

In the last decade, a few of the early attempts to bring CFD-DEM of fluidized beds beyond
the limits of small, lab-scale units to larger scale systems have become popular. The …

Researchers and engineers have widely adopted the discrete element method (DEM) for
simulation of bulk materials. One important aspect in such simulations is the determination of …

The design and control of blast furnace (BF) ironmaking must be optimized in order to be
competitive and sustainable, particularly under the more and more demanding and tough …

Dense granular flows are encountered in various engineering fields. The discrete element
method (DEM) is used extensively for the numerical simulation of these flow types …

The numerical effort of computer simulations based on the Discrete Element Method (DEM)
forces an idealisation of the DEM models especially when industrial problems are analysed …

The combined computational fluid dynamics and discrete element method (CFD–DEM)
approach has been proved to be an effective tool to study the fundamentals of different …