These are the themes of DEM8.
We invite everyone to submit an abstract.
Abstracts can be submitted to a mini-symposium or general submission and should be related to at least one of the following conference themes:
- General DEM
including open-source codes, education and out-reach - Experiments relating to DEM
including DEM-related characterisation, calibration, and validation - Application: Biomaterials
including life-science, soil-root/plant interactions, reactive powders - Application: Construction
including masonry structures - Application: Conveying and bulk solid handling
including industrial applications - Application: Extraterrestrial environments
including planetary science, microgravity - Application: Fracture, breakage and failure
- Application: Geotechnical & geophysical
including civil, mining, marine and coastal engineering, geomaterials - Application: Granular flow
including avalanches, landslides and segregation/mobility - Application: Granular gases
including vibrofluidised and segregating systems - Application: Granular solids
including packing and jamming - Application: High tech
including additive manufacturing, nanotechnology - Application: Particles and fluid
including suspensions, wet grains, wet granulation, spray drying, slurries - Application: Powder technology
including industrial applications, nano-granular materials - 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 - Theory: Contact modelling
constitutive contact laws - 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) - 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”.
