The conical solar still (CSS) is an advanced solar distillation design featuring a cone-shaped
glass cover for condensation. This innovative design offers several advantages over …

An accurate prediction of the translational and rotational motion of ellipsoidal particles can
be only given if a complete set of correlations of the drag, lift and pitching torque coefficients …

Sphericity, a measure of how much a particle's shape deviates from spherical, is useful as a
shape factor when characterizing particulate materials. However, particle surface areas …

Supercritical water gasification is a promising technology for the clean and efficient
conversion of lignite particles. The particle morphology evolution has not yet been …

The shape and size of particles are the main factors which influence the packing density of
binary mixtures. However, investigations of the single effect of size and shape on the binary …

Clogging of porous media is controlled by attachment of particles and their subsequent
detachment. In this study, we explore particle transport at the pore scale by considering …

Motivated by the need to optimize the operation of an MTPV system, three consolidated
porous media (PM) geometries namely spherical, conical and cylindrical and a non-PM …

The shapes of particles play a crucial role in the transport and mechanical behavior of
granular media. How densely particles of a specific shape can be arranged in a given …

This study investigates the dynamics of disk-shaped particles using direct numerical
simulations with the smoothed profile method for rigid particles. These disk-shaped particles …

We have recently devised organizing principles to obtain maximally dense packings of the
Platonic and Archimedean solids and certain smoothly shaped convex nonspherical …