The entire pharmaceutical sector is in an urgent need of both innovative technological
solutions and fundamental scientific work, enabling the production of highly engineered …

Powder processing and manufacturing operations are rate processes for which the
bottleneck is cohesive powder flow. Diversity of material properties, particulate form, and …

The shape and size of particles are understood to affect the bulk behaviour of powders,
though there are but few studies that present quantitative information on the relationship …

As a consequence of increasing computer power and more readily useable commercial and
open source codes, Discrete Element Method (DEM) is becoming widely used across a …

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 …

Traditional powder flow measurement devices, such as shear cells, operate in the quasi-
static regime of shear strain rate. The FT4 powder rheometer of Freeman Technology …

Purpose Accurate and consistent delivery of materials by well-designed feeders ensures
overall process stability. Importantly, feeding performance is strongly dependent on material …

When the interaction between agricultural machinery and soil is simulated, the accuracy of
the chosen particle parameters will directly have an effect on the simulation results. A …

An investigation on the predictive capabilities of Discrete Element Method simulations of a
powder mixing process in a laboratory scale paddle blade mixer is presented. The visco …

The multi-sphere method and JKR model are used in the discrete element method
simulation to investigate the effect of the particle size, aspect ratios, and cohesiveness on …