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Particle Technology and Engineering

by Jonathan P.K. Seville, Chuan-Yu Wu

May 2016

Beginner

294 pages

English

Butterworth-Heinemann

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1.1. What Are Particles?1.2. What Is Known?1.3. Computational Modeling1.4. What Are the Applications?
2.1. Density2.2. Surface Area2.3. Flowability2.4. Compressibility2.5. Compactibility
3.1. Particle Shape3.2. Particle Size3.3. Sampling for Shape and Size Characterization
4.1. Settling of a Single Isolated Particle in a Continuous Fluid4.2. Drag Force on an Isolated Particle (Seville et al., 1997)4.3. Calculation of the Terminal Velocity4.4. Other Shapes4.5. Acceleration and Unsteady Motion24.6. Curvilinear Motion4.7. Assemblies of Particles
5.1. Gas–Solid Contact Regimes—The Whole Picture5.2. Flow Through a Packed Bed5.3. Fluidization5.4. Pneumatic Conveying5.5. Gas–Solid Separation∗

6.1. Rheology of Suspensions6.2. Pastes6.3. Agglomeration
7.1. Friction and the Coulomb Model7.2. Stress Analysis in Storage Vessels7.3. Stress Analysis for Compression of a Powder Bed7.4. Discharge Dynamics—Hopper Flow
8.1. Interaction of Elastic Particles
9.1. Hard-Sphere and Soft-Sphere DEMs9.2. The Principle of DEM9.3. Data Analysis9.4. Applications
10.1. Modeling of Particle–Particle Interaction10.2. Multiple Particle Finite Element Modeling10.3. Continuum Modeling of Powder Compaction

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Chapter 9

Discrete Element Methods

Abstract

The discrete element method (DEM), also know as the distinct element method, is a numerical method for modeling the micromechanics and dynamics of particle systems (i.e., assemblies of individual particles). It was initially developed for analyzing soil mechanics and geotechnical problems and has been adapted and used extensively to study the mechanics of bulk materials and to model powder handling and processing. In DEM, a bulk material is treated as a system consisting of many individual solid particles that interact with each other according to certain interaction laws, depending on material and interfacial properties. In this chapter, the principle of DEM is introduced, techniques developed for modeling ...