Modeling and simulation of functionalized materials for additive manufacturing and 3-D printing
T. Zohdi

Particle method for incompressible viscous flow with free surfaces: Fundamental modeling and industrial application
S. Koshizuka

Steady state rheology from homogeneous and locally averaged simple shear simulations
H. Shi, S. Roy, S. Luding and V. Magnanimo

Dust emission in silicon carbide and alumina-coated silicon carbide particles used for long-term industrial processes
S. Chakravarty, M. Fischer, O.L.C. Le Bihan and M.  Morgeneyer

Wave propagation in glass-rubber granular mixtures
K. Taghizadeh, H. Steeb, V. Magnanimo and S. Luding

A numerical analysis of a twin screw mixer using dry cohesion less material and experimental validation
R. Mohanty, P. Gupta, L. Martin de Juan, J. Castro and J.Y. Ooi

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics method for fluid-structure interaction analysis - Fluid analysis and elastic-plastic structural analysis-
S. Hagihara, C. Kai, S. Taketomi, Y. Tadano and S. Tanaka

Modelling of the dispersed phase motion in free-surface flows with the two-fluid Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics approach
M. Olejnik, K. Szewc and J. Pozorski

Analysis of polymer plasticization by DEM – MPS coupling simulation
Y. Fukuzawa, T. Shigeishi, K. Munemasa, H. Tomiyama, M. Yamanoi and S. Koshizuka

A posteriori error estimation technique for particle methods using meshfree compact schemes
T. Tamai and S. Koshiduka

Simulation of Lanimar flows over a backward-facing step using an ALE particle method
F. Hu, T. Tamai and S. Koshizuka

Verification of the moving particle semi-implicit method for multi-physics simulation in thermosplastic injection process
N. Benkemoun, S. Koshizuka and K. Shibata

Numerical analysis of powder mixing dynamics in a ribbon mixer
A. Janda and C. Labra

Characterization of fluid-mechanic efficiency of porous electrodes using X- ray computed tomography and Lattice-Boltzmann simulations
D. Maggiolo, A. Trovò, F. Picano, F. Zanini, S. Carmignato and M. Guarnieri

Applications of the Particle Finite-Element Method (PFEM) in modelling manufacturing processes
J.M. Carbonell, P. Jonsén, A. Svoboda and J.M. Rodriguez

The Basset history force in point-particle simulations: Optimizing the method of van Hinsberg et al.
G. Casas, À. Ferrer and E. Oñate

Oblate and prolate particles in a quasi-2D silo.
B. Szabo, Z. Kovacs, D. Fischer, A. Ashour, S. Wegner, R. Stannarius and T. Borzsonyi

Smoothed material point method for simulating transient responses
L. He, Z. Chen and Y. Gan

Dual domain material point method with sub-points for thermodynamic nonequilibriums
D.Z Zhang and T.R. Dhakal

Improvement on the material point method with B-spline basis functions
Y. Gan, Z. Sun and Y.G. Shen

Particle-based multiscale and multiphysics simulation within the framework of material point method
Z. Chen, S. Jiang and J. Tao

Extended material point method for crack problems
Y. Liang and X. Zhang

Implicit grid-based and meshless MPM formulations
A. Larese, I. Iaconeta, R. Rossi and E. Oñate

Numerical analysis of segregation of granular materials in sandpile formation
T. Zhang, Z. Zhou, A. Yu and D. Pinson

Impact force analysis with the nonsmooth discrete element method
M. Servin, T. Berglund and K.-M. Mickelsson

Numerical simulation and validation of impact-loaded iron ore pellets
G. Gustafsson, H.-Å. Häggblad, P. Jonsén and S. Larsson

Multi-physics modelling and validation of interactions between pulp, charge and mill structure in tumbling mills
P. Jonsén, S. Hammarberg, B. Pålsson, G. Lindkvist, G. Gustafsson and H.-Å. Häggblad

Modelling of Milling Behaviour of Pharmaceutical Materials
T. Bonakdar, M. Ghadiri, A. Hassanpour and K. Roberts

Predictive modelling of continuous powder blending with application in the pharmaceutical industry
Y. Ghaffari Motlagh, A. Hassanpour and A. Bayly

Powder flow within a pharmaceutical tablet press - A DEM analysis
C. Hildebrandt, S.R. Gopireddy, R. Scherließ and N.A. Urbanetz

Amphiphilic star-like polymers in linear shear flow
D.F. Jaramillo, M.A. Camargo and C.N. Likos

Modelling of a textile endovascular graft in an aneurysm with clot formation: a multi-scale approach
R.A. Valencia, M.J. Garcia and J. Bustamante

DEM analyses of effect of interfacial transitional zones on fracture in concrete
M. Nitka and J. Tejchman

Virtual concrete specimens: A discrete element approach to the generation of densely packed ensembles of virtual aggregates
D.S. Reischl and M. Curbach

Size effect in concrete under tensile splitting - experiments and DEM analyses for different failure modes
J. Suchorzewski and J. Tejchman

Discrete element modelling of concrete structures under hard impact
A. Antoniou, L. Daudeville, P. Marin and S. Potapov

Long-term cyclic triaxial tests with DEM simulations
G. Zorzi, F. Kirsch, F. Gabrieli and F. Rackwitz

A multifield discrete element model for concrete
C. Flack, F. Ockelmann and D. Dinkler

Analysis of particle rearrangement in high-load tableting with a DEM-based elasto-plastic cohesive model
R. Cabiscol, J.H. Finke and A. Kwade

A DEM-PBM coupling approach for prediction of milling behaviour in an impact pin mill
X. Chen, L. Wang and J..  Ooi

Influence of inter-particle properties on the elastic moduli of granular materials
K. Taghizadeh, R.G.H. Kievitsbosch, H.J. Smit, V. Magnanimo and S. Luding

Modeling of granular compaction under confinement with DEM
K.P. Giannis, M.A. Celigueta and A. Kwade

Influence of blockiness and bumpiness on modelling dense granular flows of non-spherical particles
B. Soltanbeigi, A. Podlozhnyuk, S.A.  Papanicolopulos, C. Kloss and J.Y.  Ooi

CFD-DEM modelling of residence time distributions of particles in a Two-Zone Fluidized Bed Reactor (TZFBR)
M. Hettel and O. Deutschmann

Voidage and fluid speed correction algorithms for improved heat and mass transfer predictions in unresolved particle simulations
M. Askarishahi, M.-S. Salehi and S. Radl

Porous and sponge-like particle behaviour within a rotary drum and spray coating
A. Aigner and C. Kloss

Arbitrary order boundary reconstruction algorithm for robin boundary conditions in particle-resolved direct numerical simulations
F. Municchi and S. Radl

Development of a fluid-solid multiphase flow simulator by a SPH-DEM coupled method for simulating a seawall destruction due to soil foundation scour
K. Harasaki and M. Asai

Graphical user interface for multi-physics simulations of particulate matter
F. Hoffmann and F. Vogel

Modelling of the thermochemical processes in the gasifier reactor using XDEM method
I. Wardach-Święcicka, D. Kardaś and B. Peters

Dynamic sintering of a high temperature granular material: Experiments and simulations
C. L. Willibald, B. W. Kabore, T. C.  Theile, D.  Szabó, M. Schneebeli and B. Peters

Biomass combustion on a reciprocating grate: coupled CFD-XDEM modelling
N. Bitossi, C. Galletti, M. G. Gallo, F. Sansone and B. Peters

Increasing the computational efficiency of discrete-continuous coupled methods: A powder metallurgy case study
A.A.  Estupinan Donoso and R. Useldinger

The XDEM multi-physics and multi-scale simulation platform: Methodology and engineering applications
H. Rusche, B. Peters and H. Jasak

Size segregation in dense granular flows: The granular Saffman effect
M.P. van Schrojestein Lantman, K. van der Vaart, S. Luding, T. Weinhart, C. Ancey and A.R. Thornton

Scaling the percolation velocity for quantitative prediction of segregation due to size/density difference in flowing granular mixtures
M. Prasad, M. Nema and A. Tripathi

Computational modeling of flow and size segregation in a stockpile with multiple outlets
M. Servin, T. Berglund and J. Boström

Segregation in sheared granular media: Effects of intrinsic particle properties such as size, density and shape
G.G. Pereira and P.W. Cleary

Simulating and modelling segregating rods and spheres
R.M. Lueptow, Y. Zhao, R.P.  Jones and P.B. Umbanhowar

Segregation-induced granular fingering
C. Rocha , C. Johnson and N. Gray

Smooth Plasticity and Damage Model for the Material Point Method
C.D. Sofianos and V.K. Koumousis

A high order MPM for 2-phase problems
E. D.  Wobbes, C.  Vuik and V.  Galavi

The material point method in offshore geotechnical engineering
M. Bürg and R. Brinkgreve

Hydro-mechanical coupled dual domain material point method stabilized with a null-space filter
Q.A. Tran, W.T. Solowski and E. Cummings

Estimation of granular flow impact force on rigid wall using generalized interpolation material point method
S. Seyedan and W.T. Solowski

Nonlinear stability of the MPM method
M. Berzins

3D Laser scanning technique coupled with 3D DEM GPU simulations for railway ballasts
P. Pizette, N. Govender, D.N. Wilke, B. Gobé, N.-E. Abriak and R.K. Rajamani

Shape characterization of railway ballast stones for discrete element calculations
J. Irazábal, F. Salazar and E. Oñate

DEM modelling of railway ballast under shear and compression
K. Six and B. Suhr

Deformations in railway ballast due to contact induced damage – A DEM study
E. Olsson, D. Jelagin, P.-L. Larsson and P.A. Forquin

Fluid-particle energy transfer in spiral jet milling
S. Dogbe, M. Ghadiri, A. Hassanpour, C. Hare, D. Wilson, R. Storey and I. Crosley

Effect of impeller geometry on dry powder flow dynamics
W. Goh, M. Ghadiri, F. Muller, K. Sinha, N. Nere, R. Ho, S. Bordawekar and A. Sheikh

Influence of the section size on the simulation accuracy in a Wurster coater
P. Böhling, D. Jacevic, C. Davies, A.  Carmody, P. Doshi, M.T. am Ende, A. Sarkar and J.G. Khinast

Investigation of particle properties on the holding force in a granular gripper
S. Meuleman, V.A. Balt, A. Jarray and V. Magnanimo

Simulation of Trypanosoma Cruzi swimming in shear flow
A. Castillo and G. Villalobos

Particle based simulation of rarified gas mixing in a T-shape micromixer
M. Hussain, S. Mühlbauer, P. Müller and T. Pöschel

Numerical viscosity measurement method for solid-liquid mixture
R. Nomura, K. Terada, S. Takase and S. Moriguchi

Modeling mixing in high heterogeneous media: the role of the water discretization for phase space formulation
J. Soler-Sagarra, J. Carrera , E. Bonet-Gil , P.A. Becker and R. Rossi

Evaluation of blended coking coal mixing to disintegrate quasi-particles applying Discrete Element Method
N.  Kubo, Y.  Dohi and T.  Matsui

Particle-Based Modeling and Simulation in Cell Mechanics: From Adhesion and Contraction to Migration
J.M. García-Aznar

Build-up of electrical charges in granular clouds
Hans J. Herrmann

Time extrapolation of multiphase flow simulations by recurrence CFD - Offline simulations and explicit online approaches
S. Pirker

Effect of capillary and viscous forces on the flow of wet granular materials
A. Jarray, V. Magnanimo and S. Luding

The prediction of the viscosity of dense Brownian hard sphere colloidal suspensions using Stokesian dynamics
Y.M.F. El Hasadi and M. Crapper

An investigation on liquid bridge force between particles
N. Patsaki and R. Scharler

Rheological analysis of wet cohesive granular packings under simple shear deformation using DEM: Effect of particle size and scaling parameters
G. Raso, V. Magnanimo, S. Luding, H.E. Stitt, M. Marigo and J.Y. Ooi

Simulation of granular flow problems with an implicit material point method
I. Iaconeta, A. Larese, R. Rossi and E. Oñate

Numerical model for single film bubble with double liquid-gas interfaces by particle methods
Z.G. Sun, N. Ni and G. Xi

Granular flows in inclined channels with linear contractions
D. Tunuguntla, I. Denissen, T. Weinhart and A. Thornton

Numerical simulation and validation of powder filling using particle based methods
S. Larsson, J. M. Carbonell, J. M.  Rodriguez Prieto, G. Gustafsson, P. Jonsén, H.-Å. Häggblad, M. A.  Celigueta and S. Latorre

Development of surface tension model with many-body potential force
M. Kondo

A FEM-SPH coupling approach for the simulation of FSI problems with free surfaces
J. Stasch, B. Avci and P. Wriggers

Fusional method of MPS and FEM through tetrahedral mesh generation
J. Imamura

LBM-DEM modelling of particles in viscoplastic fluids without regularisation
C.R. Leonardi, W. Regulski and N.J. Di Vaira

Self-assembly of colloidal particles at liquid interfaces
J. Harting

Lattice Boltzmann based discrete simulations for particle-fluid two-phase flows
L. Wang

Pattern formation in laminar flow of suspensions through square channels
P. Seil, S. Pirker and T. Lichtenegger

Capturing the transient characteristics of thermally varying particle suspensions
J.W.S. McCullough, C.R. Leonardi and S.M. Aminossadati

An improvement on the coupling of particle suspensions using the Lattice Boltzmann and discrete element methods with immersed moving boundaries
D. Wang, C. Leonardi and S. Aminossadati

Keynote-Talk: GPUs and SPH technique, growing in parallel
A. Crespo, J. Domínguez, B. Rogers and M. Gómez-Gesteira

A comparative study of incompressible and weakly-compressible multi- fluid flows in SPH and their performance
J.-P. Fürstenau, B. Avci and P. Wriggers

Effective and fast large scaled Tsunami run-up analysis using explicit ISPH method
K. Ogasawara, M. Asai, M. Furuichi and D. Nishiura

Mesoscopic simulations of electrohydrodynamic colloidal suspensions
N. Rivas and J. Harting

Quantitative hybrid modeling to predict realistic mechanical stressses in growing tumor spheroids and tissues using agent-based models
P. Van Liedekerke, T. Johann, J. Neitsch and D. Drasdo

A discrete element framework for modelling cell and tissue behaviour with application to modelling chondrocyte migration
G.R.  Joldes, D.W. Smith and B.S. Gardiner

Multi-level particle-based modeling and simulation of cell biological systems
T. Köster and A.M. Uhrmacher

A model for cell migration in non-isotropic fibrin networks with an application to pancreatic tumor islets
J. Chen, D. Weihs and F. J. Vermolen

Biological lattice gas cellular automata models for the analysis of collective cell behaviour
Andreas Deutsch

Coupled distinct element method computational fluid dynamics analyses for reservoir landslide modelling
S. Utili, T. Zhao and G.B. Crosta

Erosive phenomena at the mesoscale – Perspectives and challenges using coupled LBM-DEM models
P. Cuéllar, L.-H. Luu, Z. Benseghier, F. Brunier-Coulin, P. Philippe, S. Bonelli and J.-Y. Delenne

Influence of seepage and inclination on the initiation of motion of non-spherical sediment particles: A numerical approach
R. Bravo and P. Ortiz

Grain scale parameters in dissipative driven constitutive models
R.A. Mukwiri, W.M. Coombs, Y. Ghaffari Motlagh and C.E. Augarde

Topographical effects on granular gravity currents
J. M. F.  Tsang, S. B.  Dalziel and N. M.  Vriend

Arching and clogging in three-dimensional silo
S. Lévay and J. Török

Continuum-based analysis of DEM simulations for industrial processes
C. Labra and A. Janda

DEM simulation of flat, flexible bodies using 2D triangulated meshes
M. Leman, W. Saeys, B. Smeets, T. Leblicq and S. Vanmaercke

DEM-CFD analysis of particle attrition in a cyclone
F. Fulchini, M. Ghadiri, A. Borissova, M. Yazdan Panah, S. Bertholin, B. Amblard, A. Cloupet and T. Gauthier

Simulation of stressing probability and energy distribution within stirred media mills using a coupled CFD-DEM approach
C. Schilde, S. Beinert, G. Fragnière, B. Finke and A.  Kwade

Stress evolution in cyclic shear of dense suspensions
T. Najuch and J. Sun

Modeling of strongly polydisperse particulate systems for CFD-DEM simulations
T. Lichtenegger

Accelerated heat transfer simulations using coupled CFD and DEM
M. Sousani, A.H. Hobbs, A. Anderson and R. Wood

A study on the drag, lift and torque coefficients for superquadric particles using an immersed boundary solver
A. Podlozhnyuk, F. Municchi, C. Goniva, S. Pirker, S. Radl and C. Kloss

Investigation of residence time and collision velocity in a Wurster fluidized bed using CFD-DEM simulations
Z. Jiang, A. Bück and E. Tsotsas

Modelling of stressing characteristics in media mills
C. Burmeister, L. Titscher, S. Zellmer, S. Breitung-Faes and A. Kwade

Characterization of mesoscopic structure in cohesive powders by X-Ray computed tomography and prediction by the discrete element method
A. Abi-Mansour, S. McClure, M. Gentzler and W. Zheng

An approach to DEM material characterization in cohesive granular bulk solid materials
L.I.  Del Cid and A. Subramanian

Generation and mechanical characterization of particulate coatings via DEM simulations - An application to Lithium-ion battery electrodes
C. Sangrós Giménez, C. Schilde and A. Kwade

Bayesian calibration of microCT-based DEM simulations for predicting the effective elastic response of granular materials
H. Cheng, A. Pellegrino and V. Magnanimo

Application of coupled DEM and SPH to complex industrial and biophysical particle suspension problems
P.W. Cleary, M.D. Sinnott and S. Harrison

Simulating the rheology of complex fluids using smoothed particle hydrodynamics
R.H.A. IJzermans

Modelling and simulation of dense particle systems with complex suspending media
A. Vazquez-Quesada and M. Ellero

Modelling and simulation of froth flotation process based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics
J. Kwon, J. Je and H. Cho

Numerical simulation of dense gas-solid flow with large particle size difference by fictitious particle method
T. Tsuji, K. Higashida, Y. Nagahashi and T. Tanaka

Reducing the computational costs of CFD-DEM simulations by coupling multiple coarse grain levels
D. Queteschiner, T. Lichtenegger, S. Pirker and S. Schneiderbauer

Keynote-Talk: Recent Developments in Implicit Incompressible SPH
M. Teschner

Towards large-scale parallel GPU-accelerated SPH for FSI problems
M. Gestrich, S. Adami, T. Aoki and T. Indinger

Large-scale simulations for fluid-particle systems using coupled LBM-DEM on a GPU supercomputer
S. Watanabe, T. Aoki and Y. Hasegawa

Potential for interactive design simulation in discrete element modelling
D.N. Wilke, N. Govender, P. Pizette and R. Rajamani

Numerical study on the effect of particle shape on mixers on GPUS
N. Govender, D. Wilke, R. Rajamani, P. Pizette, J. Khinast and B. Glasser

Methods for simulating actin filament dynamics in MCell
K. Pajo and M.I. Stefan

Particle-based mesoscale model for simulations of cells in flow
K. Lykov, Y. Nematbakhsh, C.T. Lim and I.V. Pivkin

Microscale modeling of damage and fracture of Nacre
M.Q. Chandler and J.-R.C. Cheng

A particle model for prediction of cement infiltration in osteoporotic femoral augmentation
S.J. Ramos-Infante and M.A. Pérez-Ansón

Scattering Correlations in a Granular Chain
R.K. Shrivastava, K. Saitoh and S. Luding

Numerical modelling of fiber reinforced jammed granular columns.
P.S. Iliev, F.K. Wittel and H.J. Herrmann

Investigations on the influence of suction dredging on the failure mechanism of subaqueous slopes with coupled CFD-DEM
M. Kanitz, J. Grabe, A. Hager and C. Goniva

A study of principle stress rotation on granular soils using DEM simulation of hollow cylinder test
B. Farhang and A.A. Mirghasemi

Investigations of quasi-static vortex-structures in 3D sand specimens based on DEM and Helmholtz-Hodge vector field decomposition
J. Kozicki and J. Tejchman

Hydrodynamics of a jet impinging on a granular layer
Z. Benseghier, P. Cuéllar, L.H. Luu, JY. Delenne, S. Bonelli and P. Philippe

A stable, implicit time integration scheme for Discrete Element Method and contact problems in dynamics
R. Lichtenheldt

CFD-DEM Modelling of blast furnace tapping
M. Vångö and T. Lichtenegger

Inclined chute flow of rod-like particles using the Discrete Element Method
M. Saeki and R. Arai

Modelling self-contact in metallic alloys with the Discrete Element Method
R. Gibaud, É. Guesnet, P. Lhuissier and L. Salvo

An energy conserving explicit time-integration scheme for Discrete Element Methods with variable time-steps
F. Marazzato, C. Mariotti, L. Monasse and A. Ern

A leapfrog rotational algorithm using Rodrigues parameterization applied to DEM
M. Sampaio and P. Pimenta

Numerical model for nanoporous silica and discrete simulation of their mechanical comportment for building insulation applications
E. Guesnet, R. Dendievel, D. Jauffrès, C. Martin and B. Yrieix

Loss of memory in dense sheared particulate systems
L. Kondic, L. Kovalcinova, M. Kramar and K. Mischaikow

Evaluation of particle-scale radiative heat transfer in polydisperse beds
Andrei I. Malinouski and Oscar S. Rabinovich

Characterizing gas film conduction for particle-particle and particle-wall collisions
A.M. Hobbs and J.Y.  Ooi

Molecular dynamics study of the acoustic emission during nanoindentation of iron crystal
A.Yu. Nikonov, A.I. Dmitriev, A.V. Fillipov, V.E. Rubtsov and S.Yu. Tarasov

Well-posed continuum equations for granular flow with compressibility and μ(I)-rheology
T. Barker, D.G. Schaeffer, M. Shearer and J.M.N.T. Gray

Macroscopically identical granular systems with different number of particles
N. Rivas, S. Luding and D. van der Meer

Anomalous self-diffusion in a granular gas near the shearing instability
M.J. Ruiz-Montero and J.J. Brey

Kinetic equation for a confined quasi-two-dimesnional gas of hard spheres. The elastic and inelastic cases
J.J. Brey

Questions & Discussions with all speakers and audience

Numerical simulations of granular materials using DEM
A.A. Bandeira and T.I. Zohdi

Sensitivity analysis of Immersed Boundary Method simulations of fluid flow in dense polydisperse random grain packings
C.S. Knight, M.H.. Abdol Azis, C. O‘Sullivan, B. van Wachem and D.  Dini

Ejecting properties of a bucket elevator
O.A. Averkova, I.N. Logachev, K.I. Logachev and O.N. Zaytsev

Cross-flow of air through sealed elevator enclosures
O. Averkova, K. Logachev, I. Logachev and O. Zaytsev

Coupled PFEM-DEM-FEM formulations for analysis of particulate flows and their interaction with structures
A. Franci, M.A. Celigueta, J.M. Carbonell, G. Gasas and E. Oñate

Lattice Boltzmann flux solver for simulation of viscous hypersonic flows
Z.X. Meng, L.M. Yang, C. Shu, W.H. Zhang, F. Hu and S.Z. Li

Multi-scale and –physics tsunami disaster simulation for disaster prevention and mitigation
M. Asai and I. Nur‘Ain

A fully explicit fluid-structure interaction approach based on PFEM and FEM
S. Meduri, M. Cremonesi and U. Perego

PFEM based solvers implemented in the OpenFOAM® suite
J.M. Gimenez, H.J. Aguerre, N.M. Nigro and S.R. Idelsohn

Modelling and simulation of dry powder compaction for ceramic materials by means of discrete element method and weighted Voronoi tessellation.
S. Rasche, A. Tahir and C. Könke

Simulation of low-pressure powder compaction using an elastoplastic discrete element model
J. Rojek, S. Nosewicz, D. Lumelskyj, B. Romelczyk, K. Bochenek and M. Chmielewski

Numerical simulation of solidification phenomena of molten droplet at different impact velocity
S. Kondo, H. Mamori, N. Fukushima and M. Yamamoto

modelling of material flow in stir friction welding using movable cellular automaton method
A.Y. Smolin, G.M. Eremina and S.G. Psakhie

Process simulation of deep penetration laser welding by coupling a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics model with a ray-tracing scheme.
H. Hu, F. Fetzer, P. Berger and P. Eberhard

Numerical analysis of molten metal convection during gas metal arc welding using three-dimensional incompressible SPH method
H. Komen, M. Shigeta and M. Tanaka

A study on parameter uncertainties in rockfall simulation using discrete element method
H. Kanno, N. Uehara, I. Tachibana, S. Moriguchi, K. Terada and Y. Otake

Numerical modelling with discrete elements of rockfall protection systems
J. Irazábal, F. Salazar, M.A. Celigueta, S. Latorre and E. Oñate

Comparison of two DEM strategies for modelling cortical meshes
F. Gabrieli, A. Pol and K. Thoeni

Pore scale modelling in porous media: Diffusion-transport coupled to 3D Stokes equation at high resolution
L. Hume and P. Poncet

Soil disturbance during flat rigid dilatometer test using discrete element method
J. Butlanska and M. Arroyo

Energy balance in a particle system
A. Mayrhofer, A. Hager and C. Kloss

Accurate modelling of the elastic and non linear behaviour of cohesive materials with the DEM
M.A. Celigueta, S. Latorre, F.  Arrufat and E. Oñate

Implementation and verification of an algorithm for deformable discrete particles in the YADE DEM software
M. Haustein, A. Gladkyy and R. Schwarze

Investigation of Mass Discharge Rate and Segregation from Hopper by Discrete Element Method
R. Kumar, C. M. Patel, A. K. Jana and S. R. Gopireddy

Texture and stress transmission in binary granular composites: Comparison between simulations and existing experiments
P. Jongchansitto and I. Preechawuttipong

Implementation of MCA in the framework of LIGGGHTS
N. Salman, M. Wilson, A. Neville and A.Y. Smolin

Investigation of the dynamic fragmentation of shock-induced sheets of liquid metal using large-scale molecular dynamics simulations
O. Durand and L. Soulard

Molecular dynamics study of sliding mechanisms of Ni, amorphous Ni-P and nanocrystalline Ni films
A.I. Dmitriev, A.Y. Nikonov and W. Österle

Coupling of finite elements and molecular dynamics at finite temperature
T. Willerding and M. Bischoff

Calculation of nitrogen flow in nickel micronozzle based on numerical approaches of gas and molecular dynamics
V.O. Podryga and S.V. Polyakov

Thermal Lattice Boltzmann simulation of diffusion / forced convection using a double MRT Model
B. Kravets and H. Kruggel-Emden

On the use of Lattice Boltzmann method for simulating peristaltic flow of particle-laden Bingham fluids in a closed cavity
Z. Poursharifi and K. Sadeghy

Gray-scale lattice Botzmann methods - An attempt to bridge multiple length scales
G.G. Pereira and M.B. Clennell

Large Scale Particle Modelling of Industrial and Biophysical Applications
P. Cleary

Massively parallel non-smooth granular dynamics and its coupling with Lattice-Boltzmann Methods
U. Rüde

Granular Friction: from the building of the pyramids to the anatomy of the individual contacts at the nanoscale
D.  Bonn

Granular rheology from first principles
M. Sperl

Relaxation processes after instantaneous shear rate reversal in a dense granular flow
E. Rojas, R. Soto, E. Clement, M. Trulsson and B. Andreotti

Role of softness and cohesion in wet granular flows
S. Roy, T. Weinhart and S. Luding

Discrete element method analysis of a state-parameter based constitutive model
X. Huang, C. O‘Sullivan, K. Hanley and F. Kwok

Keynote talk: Internal structure evolution and particle-scale deformation mechanism of 2D simulated and experimental granular assemblies
X. Li, Q. Yuan, Z. Li and Y-H. Wang

Micromechanics of normal hydroerosion processes
A.F. Rotunno, F. Froiio, C. Callari and A. Guidobaldi

Micro origin of granular plasticity: On the stabilizing role played by free particles.
A. Wautier, S. Bonelli and F. Nicot

Shear band forming with respect to spatial heterogeneity evolution
J. Liu, F. Nicot, W. Zhou and G. Ma

Instabilities of a sand layer subjected to an ascending water flow by a 2D coupled Discrete Element - Lattice Boltzmann hydromechanical model
M. Mansouri, M.S. El Youssou and F. Nicot

Discrete element simulation of concrete fracture using polygonal elements
B. Beckmann and M. Curbach

VGCM3D - A 3D rigid particle model for rock fracture following the Voronoi tessellation of the grain structure: Formulation and validation
M. Candeias, N. Monteiro Azevedo and M.L. Braga Farinha

Coupling of X-ray tomography and DEM for fracture simulation
D. Roussel, P. Parant, A. Lichtner, D. Jauffrès, J. Villanova, S. Picart, R.K. Bordia and Ch. Martin

Brazilian test - A microscopic point of view on tensile fracture generation
P. Klejment and W. Debski

Fragmentation and shear band formation by slow compression of brittle porous media
F. Kun, G. Pal, Z. Janosi and I. G. Main

An accurate and stable multiphase MPS method with corrective matrix
G.T. Duan, S. Koshizuka, A. Yamaji and B. Chen

Algebraic Multigrid for the finite pointset method
B. Metsch and F. Nick

Hydrodynamic loads simulation for 3D bluff bodies by using the vortex loops based modification of the vortex particle method
G.A. Shcheglov and S.A. Dergachev

Efficient semi-analytical integration of vortex sheet influence in 3D vortex method
I.K. Marchevsky and G.A. Shcheglov

High-order numerical scheme for vortex sheet approximation in vortex methods for 2D flow simulation
K.S. Kuzmina and I.K. Marchevsky

MPM simulations of granular column collapse with a new constitutive model for the solid-fluid transition
I. Redaelli, F. Ceccato, C.G. di Prisco and P. Simonini

Discrete element modelling of granular column collapse tests with industrial applications
J. Torres-Serra, D.R. Tunuguntla, I.F.C. Denissen, A. Rodríguez-Ferran and E. Romero

Material parameter characterization of multicellular granules as crash absorber with application in ship building
C. Woitzik, M.A. Chaudry, P. Wriggers and A. Düster

Computational modelling of granular materials during confined compression with application in ship building
M.A. Chaudry, C. Woitzik, A. Düster and P. Wriggers

Numerical model of granular materials partially cemented by bacterial calcite
E. Kashizadeh, A. Mukherjee and A. Tordesillas

The impact of coupling on fluid-particle interactions in a turbulent channel flow
D.A. Rupp, D.O. Njobuenwu and M. Fairweather

On the effect of static and dynamic particle size distribution on flow turbulence modulation
D.O. Njobuenwu and M. Fairweather

Particle concentration and stokes number effects in multi-phase turbulent channel flows
L. Mortimer, M. Fairweather and D.O. Njobuenwu

Solid-gas flow case studies using simulation with coupled DEM-CFD
L. Kostetzer and L. C.  de Almeida

Investigation of block-like movement in cohesive and non-cohesive spouted bed operations.
A. Vila, T. Lichtenegger, S. Puttinger and S. Pirker

CFD-DEM modeling of layer inversion phenomenon in solid-liquid fluidized beds
E. Abbaszadeh Molaei, Z. Zhou and A.B. Yu

Distinct element simulation of inter-particle coating variability in a rotary drum coater
M. Pasha, M. Ghadiri, A. Zheng and P. M. Piccione

Film formations of aggregates due to lateral capillary forces
M. Doran, P. Dastoor, M. Sciffer and R. Moreno-Atanasio

Numerical and experimental investigation of transport and separation of complex shaped particles in an optical belt sorter using a DEM-CFD approach and comparison with experiments
C. Pieper, G. Maier, F. Pfaff, H. Kruggel-Emden, R. Gruna, B. Noack, S. Wirtz, V. Scherer, T. Längle and U.D.  Hanebeck

Granular flow in confined geometries: Jamming, clogging, and instability
K. Okumura

From ball to blob: Multiple contact mechanics in soft particle packings
J. Dijksman, N. Brodu and R.P. Behringer

Rheology and effective wall friction in wall-bounded dense granular flows
R. Artoni and P. Richard

Wave propagation in granular materials: Role of cohesive
K. Huang

Discrete to continuum fields in bidisperse segregating granular mixtures
A. Thornton, C.R. Windows-Yule, D.R. Tunuguntla and T. Weinhart

Questions and Discussions with all speakers and audience

3D multiscale modelling of strain localization: using a micromechanically- based model
H. Xiong, F. Nicot and Z. Yin

Sub-particle scale plasticity in granular materials: Yielding of asperities
M. Otsubo and C. O‘Sullivan

On strain-deformation-fabric relationships for granular materials
N.P. Kruyt and L. Rothenburg

Does shape matter? FEMDEM estimations of strength and post failure behaviour of catalyst supports
A. Farsi, J. Xiang, J.P. Latham, M. Calsson, E.H. Stitt and M. Marigo

DEM study on the role of thermal mismatch in multi-phase particle fragmentation
F.K. Wittel, H.A.  Carmona and H.J.  Herrmann

The evolution of fragment shapes in repeated sub-critical impact
G. Pál, G. Domokos and F. Kun

Discrete Particle Methods for Simulating Hypervelocity Impact Phenomena, Failure and Fragmentation
Martin O. Steinhauser

Accuracy comparison of different approaches for vortex sheet discretization on the airfoil in vortex particles method
K.S. Kuzmina, I.K. Marchesky, D. Milani and E.P. Ryatina

Investigation of enhanced polygon wall boundary model in PNU-MPS method
S.M. Chung, S.J. Ji, H.S. Shin, J.C. Park, S.M. Jeong and K.S. Kim

Explicit moving particle simulation method for milk crown and water drip
M. Yokoyama, Y. Seta and G. Yagawa

An SPH model for prediction of oil slick diameter in the gravity-inertial spreading phase
C.A.D. Fraga Filho

Recent developments in modelling self-compacting concrete flow using smooth particle hydrodynamics method
S. Kulasegaram and B.L. Karihaloo

A Smoothed-Particle-Hydrodynamics simulation approach combining consistent kernel gradients with variable resolution schemes
M. Leonardi, J.M. Domínguez and T. Rung

Numerical simulation of the sedimentation of an elliptic particle under external electric field using ISPH
N. Tofighi, A. Suleman and M. Yildiz

Numerical analysis of debris-flow interaction with open barriers
M. Marchelli, A. Leonardi and M. Pirulli

An EMMS based solid stress model for MP-PIC method
Y. Jiang, F. Li, W. Ge, W. Wang and J. Li

CFD-DEM modelling on complex particle-fluid flow with fluid-structure interaction
Y. He, A. Bayly, A. Hassanpour, M. Fairweather and F. Muller

Flow pattern and free surface deformation caused by coupling effect of ambient airflow and thermocapillary convection
R. Liang

Modelling heterogeneous catalysis in open-cell porous foam structures with particle based simulation methods
S. Mühlbauer, S. Strobl and T. Pöschel

Fluid-solid transition in unsteady shearing flows
D. Vescovi, D. Berzi and C. di Prisco

Direct determination of granular pressure in liquid fluidized beds using a DEM-based simulation approach
H. Abbasfard, G. Evans and R. Moreno-Atanasio

Acoustic wave probing of a sheared granular layer during stick-slip
L. Lemrich, P. Johnson, R. Guyer, X. Jia and J. Carmeliet

Mechanical behavior of boundary layer in discrete models based on Voronoi tessellation
J. Eliáš

Implementing particle-based methods with Aboria
M. Robinson and M. Bruna

Grinding Media Dynamics for an Attritor Mill - DEM Investigation
D. Daraio, H.E Stitt, M. Marigo, A. Alexiadis and A. Ingram

Bulbous head formation in bidispersed shallow granular flows over inclined planes
I.F.C. Denissen, T. Weinhart, S. Luding and A.R. Thornton

Rheology of non-spherical down inclined planes
R.C. Hidalgo and T. Weinhart

Retrogressive failure of a layer of granular material on an inclined plane
A. Russell, N. Gray, C. Johnson and S. Viroulet

Stresses and orientational order in shearing flows of granular liquid crystals
D. Berzi, N. Thai-Quang, Y. Guo and J. Curtis

DEM studies of non-spherical particle and flexible fiber flows: From microscale properties to macroscale behavior
Y. Guo and J.S. Curtis

Modelling ice accretion due to freezing precipitation using a discrete morphogenetic approach
K. Szilder and E.P. Lozowski

Reaction-diffusion study for non-linear reaction systems using stochastic rotation dynamics
A. Sengar, J.A.M. Kuipers, R.A. van Santen and J.T. Padding

Modelling of Chemical Reactions in Metallurgical Processes
M. E. Kinaci, T. Lichtenegger and S. Schneiderbauer

Comparison of particle-resolved direct numerical simulation and 1D modelling of catalytic reactions in a cylindrical particle bed
A. Singhal, S. Cloete, R. Quinta-Ferreira and S. Amini

Mobility analysis using highly parallelized DEM and SPH
J. Carrillo, C. Goodin and J. Osorio

Parallelizing XDEM: Load-balancing policies and efficiency, a study
A. Rousset, X. Besseron and B. Peters

A language and development environment for parallel particle methods
S. Karol, T. Nett, P.  Incardona, N.  Khouzami, J.  Castrillon and I.F.  Sbalzarini

Optimized communication scheme for massively parallel simulations of polydisperse particle systems with large size ratios
S. Eibl, T. Preclik and U. Rüde

Simulating convex polyhedral particles utilizing the discrete element method on GPU
E. Siegmann, J. Khinast and G. Haase

fastDEM: A method for faster DEM simulations of granular media
C. Kloss, A. Aigner, A. Mayrhofer and C. Goniva

Enhancement of the spreading process in additive manufacturing through the spreader optimisation
S. Haeri

Numerical and experimental study of the powder bed characteristics in the recoated bed of the additive manufacturing process
D.S. Nasato, M. Heinl, T. Hausotte and T. Pöschel

Initial stage sintering of polymer particles – modelling size-, temperature- and time- dependent contacts
T. Weinhart, R. Fuchs, M. Ye, S. Luding, H.-J. Butt and M. Kappl

Simulation of pouring process of aluminium alloy by smoothed particle hydrodynamics with oxide film model
T. Suwa, M. Kazama and Y. Maeda

Multiscale model of sintering: Diffusion and plastic flow
B.W. Kabore and B. Peters

Convergence analysis of the Affine Particle-In-Cell method and its application to the simulation of extrusion processes
J.L. Sandoval M. and G.C. Ganzenmüller

An analysis of surface crack propagation with smoothed particle hydrodynamics method
K. Tazoe, H. Tanaka, M. Oka and G. Yagawa

Investigation of procedures required for modelling of wet sieving using the coupled DEM-SPH method
D. Markauskas, F. Elskamp and H. Kruggel-Emden

Coupling of finite-volume-method and incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics method for multiphase flow
C.A. Walter, M. Hirschler and U. Nieken

Simulation of bubble-particle attachment using smoothed particle hydrodynamics
J. Je, J. Kwon and H. Cho

Scaling laws for implicit viscosities in smoothed particle hydrodynamics
C. Bierwisch and P. Polfer

Modelling the viscosity of nanoparticulate suspensions via coupled CFD-DEM simulations
Benedikt Finke, Arno Kwade and Carsten  Schilde

A CFD–DEM approach coupled with heat transfer for the melting process of a packed of particles
M. Baniasadi and B. Peters

Application of eXtended Discrete Element method for multiphase flow in packed bed reactors including heat transfer
M. Baniasadi and B. Peters

An hybrid multiscale model for immersed granular flows
M. Constant, F. Dubois, J. Lambrechts and V. Legat

Discrete Multi-Physics: A particle-based computational method coupling CG-MD, SPH and DEM
A. Alexiadis

Evaluation of a new dispersion technique for measuring triboelectric charging of particles
U. Zafar, M. Ali, F. Alfano and M. Ghadiri

Using non-smooth multi-domain dynamics to improve the safety on haul roads in surface mining
K. Thoeni, M. Servin and A. Giacomini

Continuum forms and their applications in predicting dynamic properties of brick mortar systems
S. Supprasert , M. L. L.  Wijerathne, M.  Hori and J. Chen

Coupled particle methods for the simulation of single-lip deep-hole drilling processes
P. Eberhard and D. Schnabel

Acoustic analysis of a simplified oil pan using a coupled FE-SPH approach
S. Koch, S. Duczek, F. Duvigneau, U. Gabbert and E. Woschke