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Accurate simulations are essential for engineering applications, and intricate continuum mechanical material models are constructed to achieve this goal. However, the increasing complexity of the material models and geometrical properties…
In this work, discrete element method (DEM) simulations coupled with machine learning are used to study the process of dry impregnation. Our results show that the particle bed contains two regimes. Regime 1 shows smaller inclination angles…
Development of algorithms and growth of computational resources in the past decades have enabled simulations of sediment transport processes with unprecedented fidelities. The Computational Fluid Dynamics--Discrete Element Method (CFD--DEM)…
The sedimentation process of granular materials exists ubiquitously in nature and many fields which involve the solid-liquid separation. This paper employs the coupled computational fluid dynamics and discrete element method (CFD-DEM) to…
We present a multi-model simulation approach, targeted at understanding the behavior of comminution and the effect of grinding aids (GAs) in industrial cement mills. On the atomistic scale we use Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations with…
In engineering applications snow often undergoes large and fast deformations. During these deformations the snow transforms from a sintered porous material into a granular material. In order to capture the fundamental mechanical behavior of…
One essential question in material sciences is how to bridge the gap between the microscopic picture and a macroscopic description. The former involves contact forces and deformations, whereas the latter concerns tensorial quantities like…
Granular impact -- the dynamic intrusion of solid objects into granular media -- is widespread across scientific and engineering applications including geotechnics. Existing approaches for simulating granular impact dynamics have relied on…
A systematic study is carried out on a fully resolved fluid-particle model which couples the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) and the Discrete Element Method (DEM) using an immersed moving boundary technique. Similar algorithms have been…
Plate motion near the fault gouge layer, and the elastic interplay between the gouge layer and the plate under stick-slip conditions, is key to understanding the dynamics of sheared granular fault systems. Here, a two-dimensional…
In recent years, the rapid advancement of deep learning has significantly impacted various fields, particularly in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in the realm of solid mechanics, benefiting greatly from the remarkable…
Particle-induced wear is a critical concern in bulk material handling systems, where abrasive interactions accelerate equipment degradation, increase maintenance needs, and raise operational costs. The Discrete Element Method (DEM) and…
In this paper, an online multiscale model reduction method is presented for stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise, where the diffusion coefficient is spatially multiscale and the noise perturbation…
Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations of granular media are computationally intensive, particularly during initialization phases dominated by large displacements and kinetic energy. This paper presents a novel generative pipeline based…
Direct measurement of vertical and longitudinal sediment fluxes on migrating sandy bedforms are extremely difficult to perform in both the field and laboratory. In this study we use the LES--DEM (large eddy simulation--discrete element…
In this work, we investigate Vacuum-Packed Particle (VPP) dampers -- granular-core dampers offering tunable damping performance -- as a more sustainable alternative to conventional systems such as magnetorheological fluid dampers. A…
The discrete element method (DEM) can provide detailed descriptions of sea ice dynamics that explicitly model floes and discontinuities in the ice, which can be challenging to represent accurately with current models. However, floe-scale…
Autoregressive next-step prediction models have become the de-facto standard for building data-driven neural solvers to forecast time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). Denoise training that is closely related to diffusion…
In this article we propose and numerically implement a mathematical model for the simulation of three-dimensional semiconductor devices characterized by an heterogeneous material structure. The model consists of a system of nonlinearly…
The use of glass for pharmaceutical new applications such as high-technology drugs, requires the strictest container inertness. A common theme of paramount importance in glass container integrity preservation is the detailed mechanism…