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Tablets in a Rotating Drum, Modeled with 3DEC

Various rotating drum designs and angular velocities are evaluated to study the parameters influencing the orientation of circular tablet during spray coating.

Mixing & Transport of Slurry in the Presence of Free Surface, Modeled with PFC3D

The effect of a fluid phase with a free surface on the conveying and mixing of a slurry is modeled using PFC3D. PFC3D's powerful scripting language, FISH is used to model and evaluate the influence of buoyancy and drag on the formation of a logjam at the weir.

Bottle Conveyor Modeled With 3DEC

3DEC, a rigid/deformable jointed polyhedral DEM software featuring finite-element analysis in each block is used to simulate the influence of bottle geometry, conveyor speed and guide wall design on the inception of logjams.

Stirred Tank Modeled With PFC3D

Various paddle designs are evaluated by simulating the mixing of red and blue particles of a fixed size in a tank.

Monument Collapse in 3DEC

The collapse, caused by an earthquake, of a two-story Roman masonry gate constructed of rigid polyhedral discrete elements is modeled with 3DEC.

ERC Mixer Modeled With PFC3D

Various rotor designs, feed rates and rotation speeds are studied to minimize the mixing length of a continuous binary mixer.

Drilling A Ductile Material @300 RPM With PFC3D

Various materials are prepared through a precise material genesis procedure and drilled at different speeds.

Cyclone Separator Modeled With PFC3D & CCFD: DEM-CFD Coupling

A coupled DEM-CFD approach is used to study the formation of large-scale coherent structures in a cyclone separator.

Conveyor Belt Modeled With PFC3D

Flow through a hopper, material transport with a conveyor belt and the filling of a box are modeled.

Bulldozer Pushing Blocks Represented As Clumps

Automatically generated brick-like clumps of spherical particles are pushed by a horizontally moving bulldozer.

Blade Mill Modeled With PFC3D

The influence of blade orientation and rotation speed is studied by simulating the mixing of two populations of particles (red and blue) in a horizontal tank.

Ball Mill Modeled With PFC3D

Rotation speed and drum design are optimized by simulating the mixing of red and blue particles of various diameters in a rotating drum featuring a corrugated cylindrical wall.