Themes

These are the themes of DEM8.

Abstracts can be submitted to a mini-symposium or general submission and should be related to at least one of the following conference themes:

1. General DEM
   including open-source codes, education and out-reach
2. Experiments relating to DEM
   including DEM-related characterisation, calibration, and validation
3. Application: Biomaterials
   including life-science, soil-root/plant interactions, reactive powders
4. Application: Construction
   including masonry structures
5. Application: Conveying and bulk solid handling
   including industrial applications
6. Application: Extraterrestrial environments
   including planetary science, microgravity
7. Application: Fracture, breakage and failure
8. Application: Geotechnical & geophysical
   including civil, mining, marine and coastal engineering, geomaterials
9. Application: Granular flow
   including avalanches, landslides and segregation/mobility 
10. Application: Granular gases
    including vibrofluidised and segregating systems
11. Application: Granular solids
    including packing and jamming
12. Application: High tech
    including additive manufacturing, nanotechnology
13. Application: Particles and fluid
    including suspensions, wet grains, wet granulation, spray drying, slurries
14. Application: Powder technology
    including industrial applications, nano-granular materials
15. Theory: Algorithms
    improvements and extensions to Event Driven (ED), Contact Dynamics (CD), Discrete Element Method (DEM), etc,
    including high-performance algorithms, upscaling, micro-macro, coarse-graining, contact detection, non-spherical particles
16. Theory: Contact modelling  
    constitutive contact laws
17. Theory: Continuum methods
    including upscale continuum methods and particle-based continuum solvers such as Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM), Finite-Discrete Element Method (FDEM)
18. Theory: Discrete-continuum coupling
    including discrete-discrete, particle-fluid (CFD-DEM), multiscale coupling
    

Note, the listed subtopics are not meant to exclude other submissions. That is, “including” is short for “including but not limited to”.