The upstream of bioenergy industry has suffered from unreliable operations of granular biomass feedstocks in handling equipment. Computational modeling, including continuum-mechanics models and ...

Granular flow dynamics in rotating systems is a multifaceted field that blends fundamental physical principles with practical industrial applications. Rotating drums, mixers and similar apparatuses ...

When we take a stroll on the beach, we walk on the sand without any trouble. The sand appears solid and is difficult to compress. When we put the same sand grains in an hourglass, they behave very ...

The surface layer of solid planets (planets that are primarily composed of rock, such as the terrestrial planets) is covered with fine sand (regolith). Predicting how spacecraft will be affected by a ...

A long-standing debate regarding the dynamics of silo discharge revolves around the use of mono-dispersed circular or spherical grains in simplified two-dimensional models. It is well-known that ...

Suppose a hopper is filled with a granular material such as sand, and you need to compute the force or stress on the hopper walls. If static, this problem is straightforward to solve using FE software ...

An open-source C++ implementation of the Material Point Method (MPM) with elasto-viscoplastic rheologies, specifically designed to model the mechanics and flow of granular matter. Tools for parsing ...

Sand in an hourglass might seem simple and straightforward, but such granular materials are actually tricky to model. From far away, flowing sand resembles a liquid, streaming down the center of an ...

An open-source C++ implementation of the Material Point Method (MPM) with elasto-viscoplastic rheologies, specifically designed to model the mechanics and flow of granular matter.