Special issue on conveying and handling of particulate solids – Challenges of discrete element simulation, application and calibration--颗粒学报PARTICUOLOGY

Levy, A., & Yu, A. (2014). Special issue on conveying and handling of particulate solids – Challenges of discrete element simulation, application and calibration. Particuology, 12, 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.partic.2013.08.001

Avi Levy (Guest Editor) ^a *, Aibing Yu (Guest Editor) ^b

a Pearlstone Centre for Aeronautical Engineering Studies, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
b School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

10.1016/j.partic.2013.08.001

Volume 12, February 2014, Page 1

Available online 16 November 2013.

E-mail: avi@bgu.ac.il

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A series of international Conveying and Handling of Particulate Solids (CHoPS) conferences was initiated in Herzliya, Israel in 1995 and has since proceeded with six successive conferences held in Jerusalem (1997), the Dead Sea (2000), Budapest (2003), Sorrento (2006), Brisbane (2009) and Friedrichshafen (2012). The conference series covers processes involving particulate solids, for example, characterization, size enlargement, mixing, classification, separation, storage, conveying wet and dry materials by mechanical conveyors and pneumatic conveyors, attrition, dust collection, as well as processes starting from raw materials up to final products, drying, on-line and off-line measurements, etc. This special issue comprises thirteen papers, focused on challenges of discrete element simulation, application and calibration, which were selected from the 7th International Conference for Conveying and Handling of Particulate Solids (CHoPS 2012) held in Friedrichshafen, Germany in September 2012.

Handling and conveying of particulate solids are fundamental to a wide range of industrial processes. Many of these processes encounter numerous difficulties and demonstrate unpredictable behaviour, and therefore present challenges to the design and operation of plants. With the on-going increasing of the computer capabilities, the discrete element method (DEM) becomes popular as a method for modelling the motion and interaction of individual particles with fluids and structures. Thus it has been used as a computational tool to study and investigate complex particulate systems. During the last decades, considerable scientific advances have been made in modelling the interactions in the particulate level and in the technique development; however, careful theoretical models and numerical simulations have to be validated with experimental data. The rapid growth of the DEM popularity yields a continuous increase in the number of researchers and industrial engineers who are using DEM to model and simulate bulk solid applications, and to validate it and use it as a design tool. Therefore this special issue is dedicated to various aspects of DEM simulation, application, calibration and validation.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to all the authors for their contributions and to the Editor-in-Chief of PARTICUOLOGY for making this special issue possible. Finally, we would like to inspire all researchers and industrial practitioners who are interested in conveying and handling of particulate solids in general and in DEM research, application and calibration to contribute to the 8th International Conference for Conveying and Handling of Particulate Solids (CHoPS 2015) which will be held in Tel-Aviv, Israel in May 2015.

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