Coupled SPH-DEM simulations of liquefaction-induced flow failure

Using DEM in Particulate Flow Simulations

A Coupled SPH-DEM Model for Fluid and Solid Mechanics of Apple Parenchyma Cells During Drying

A coupled SPH-DEM based two-dimensional (2-D) micro-scale single cell model is developed to predict basic cell-level shrinkage effects of apple parenchyma cells during air drying. In this newly developed drying model, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is used to model the low Reynolds Number fluid motions of the cell protoplasm, and a Discrete Element Method (DEM) is employed to simulate th...

Combined DEM and SPH simulation of ball milling

A deeper understanding of the milling operation of ball mills helps mineral processing engineers to control and optimize them, and therefore, reduce their consuming power. In this work, the milling operation of ball mills is investigated using two methods, i.e. DEM and combined DEM-SPH. First, a pilot scale ball mill with no lifter is simulated by both methods. Then another pilot scale ball mil...

SPH: Towards Flood Simulations

Flood simulation is a complex problem involving large masses of fluid, soil watering, erosion and collision. We will demonstrate the flood simulation of cities were the fluid particles collide with a complex city model. For the fluid simulation we had used Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, by which we gained less expensive computation than by using other known methods of water simul...

Three-dimensional Sph Simulations of Accretion Discs *

We discuss some 3D numerical simulations of accretion discs using the SPH method and a polytropic equation of state. We show that discs exist even for as large value of the polytropic index as 1.2, and that these discs are always in hydrostatic balance. We also show that even without any inflow, spiral shocks appear in the discs.