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 …

With increasing the computational resources, the number of publications about coupled
computational fluid dynamics–discrete element method is in the rise in the recent years. This …

Highlights•Review of agricultural material parameters for DEM modelling.•Contact models
reviewed and characterised.•Models of representation of shape of particles discussed.• …

Over the past decade, DEM-based simulation has become a promising alternative to
physical measurements of thermal particulate systems. Despite their rapid advancement and …

For a single isolated particle, the effect of overlap displacement on conduction and the effect
of particle diameter/fluid velocity on convection are comprehensively studied using a CFD …

Biomass gasification in a fluidized bed reactor is a complex process involving intricately
multi-scale and multi-physics processes and may be affected by many operating …

Fluid–solid systems play a major role in a wide variety of industries, from pharmaceutical
and consumer goods to chemical plants and energy generation. Along with this variety of …

Particulate flows with heat transfer widely exist in industry including fluidized bed reactor
and powder-based 3D printing, and are frequently modeled with CFD–DEM coupled …

Biomass gasification in a bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) reactor is numerically studied based
on a particle-scale computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method (CFD-DEM), with …