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| Flowing particulate media are ubiquitous in a wide spectrum of applications that include transport systems, fluidized beds, manufacturing and materials processing technologies, energy conversion and propulsion technologies, sprays, jets, slurry flows, and biological flows. The discrete nature of the media, along with their underlying coupled multi-physical interactions can lead to a variety of interesting phenomena, many of which are unique to such media. My research explores the utility of numerical simulations based on the discrete element method and collision driven particle dynamics methods for analyzing flowing particulate media. I have developed a FORTRAN based software library for discrete particle simulations, and used it to analyze the flow of an erosive stream of particles impacting a target surface, and the flow and deposition of particulate sprays. Currently, I am working on extending the discrete particle calculations to two-way coupled fluid-particle interaction problems. Watch the video… | |
Colliding and Flowing Particles
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