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...

We present a meshless simulation method for multiphase fluid-particle systems using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and the Discrete Element Method (DEM). Rather than fully resolving the interstitial fluid, which is often infeasible, we use an unresolved fluid model based on the locally averaged Navier Stokes equations. A variable-h SPH formulation is used to calculate the fluid phase, wh...

Mutations affecting the conversion of spectrin dimers to tetramers result in hereditary elliptocytosis (HE), whereas a deficiency of human erythroid alpha- or beta-spectrin results in hereditary spherocytosis (HS). All spontaneous mutant mice with cytoskeletal deficiencies of spectrin reported to date have HS. Here, the first spontaneous mouse mutant, sph(Dem)/ sph(Dem), with severe HE is descr...

In this study, we present the DEM-SPM method, a Lagrangian-Lagrangian coupled algorithm, for simulating solid-liquid flows involving free surfaces. The DEM solid phase and the SPH liquid phase are connected using the local averaging technique, where the governing equations are modeled taking account of the local mean voidage. Conservative forms of momentum balance are derived via a variational ...

Fundamental understanding on microscopic physical changes of plant materials is vital to optimize product quality and processing techniques, particularly in food engineering. Although grid-based numerical modelling can assist in this regard, it becomes quite challenging to overcome the inherited complexities of these biological materials especially when such materials undergo critical processin...

Abstract We present a novel smoothed particle hydrodynamics-discrete element method (SPH-DEM) approach for the simulation of deformable granular media. First, we show how converges to analytical solution in simple contact mechanics problem, namely Hertz law elastic spherical grains. Second, analyze evolution 2D packing disks under uniaxial compression, displaying key metrics such as coordinatio...

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...

Tetramers of alpha- and beta-spectrin heterodimers, linked by intermediary proteins to transmembrane proteins, stabilize the red blood cell cytoskeleton. Deficiencies of either alpha- or beta-spectrin can result in severe hereditary spherocytosis (HS) or hereditary elliptocytosis (HE) in mice and humans. Four mouse mutations, sph, sph(Dem), sph(2BC), and sph(J), affect the erythroid alpha-spect...

A fully Lagrangian particle-based method for coupled fluid-particle interaction is utilized to evaluate flow liquefaction of saturated granular soils overlain by an impermeable crust. The solid particles are modelled as spherical using the discrete element (DEM). smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) employed model interstitial fluid averaged form Navier-Stokes equations that accounts presence ...