powder flow

Micromechanical analysis of cohesive granular materials using discrete element method with an adhesive elasto-plastic contact model

An adhesive elasto-plastic contact model for the discrete element method with three dimensional non-spherical particles is proposed and investigated to achieve quantitative prediction of cohesive powder flowability.

S. C. Thakur, John P. Morrissey, Jin Sun, Jian-Fei Chen, Jin Y. Ooi