The coupling between fluid and granular materials is commonly encountered in nature and
engineering practice. Moreover, the shape of granular materials in practical applications is …

Dense gas-solid flows are very common in actual production and industrial fields, so it is
significant to understand their hydrodynamic characteristics and heat and mass transfer …

Abstract Computational Fluid Dynamics coupled with Discrete Element Method (CFD-DEM)
has been used to model the dynamics of aspherical particles in a spouted bed. CFD-DEM …

Abstract Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC), a typical fluidization technology, faces serious
issues of catalyst particle attrition and loss. Attrition is an important cause of catalyst loss …

In the energy conversion process, the inert bed material such as sand with spherical shape
is usually added to the fluidized bed for the proper fluidization of the non-spherical biomass …

The fluidisation of spherocylindrical particles is often involved in the fields of biomass
combustion, drug delivery and food drying. By spherocylindrical particles, we mean …

Bubbles considerably influence the characteristics of gas-solid fluidized bed, hence play an
important role in determining process performance. This paper presents a CFD-DEM study …

Artificial neural network (ANN) was adopted to predict and analyze the relationship of drag
coefficient, Reynolds number, and sphericity for non-spherical particles in dense gas–solid …

Elongated drug particles have the potential to be superior to spherical drug particles for
delivery to the deep lung due to their increased ability to align with the airflow. However, the …

The structural configuration such as the fraction of interfacial transition zones (ITZs) has
been found that can seriously impact the whole physico-mechanical properties of concrete …