This paper provides a review on the flow of free-flowing coarse particles inside silos. Basic
principles and elementary mechanisms involved in gravity flow of granular materials are …

Cereal grains, oilseeds, and pulses (collectively referred to as grains) form a major portion of
daily intake for humans and domesticated animals and hold greater economic value for …

The paper describes parallelization strategies for the Discrete Element Method (DEM) used
for simulating dense particulate systems coupled to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) …

Size segregation of pellets in the top bunker (hopper) of a blast furnace is an important factor
affecting the radial distribution of the charged burden and indirectly also the distribution of …

Heat generation and transfer in a granular material can be intricately coupled with their
mechanical responses, playing a key role in causing excessive large deformation, flow and …

Heat transfer between particles takes place in a variety of industrial applications, but
because of the stress and contact heterogeneities inherent to these applications, it is poorly …

In numerical simulations of the blast furnace, the discrete element method (DEM) is a quite
novel method. The accuracy of physical parameters of the method is a key issue for the …

Thermal radiation is important in high temperature packed pebble bed, which is still poorly
understood. The present work is to analyze the effect of spatial scale in modeling thermal …

A discrete element method (DEM) is developed to simulate the heat transfer in granular
assemblies in vacuum with consideration of the thermal resistance of rough contact …

This work presents an efficient Discrete Element Method (DEM) framework for the simulation
of the thermal behavior of granular media. The main focus is on long-lasting granular flows …