... discrete element method fluid-particle coupling blockage arching Dense granular-suspension flows occur in solid-transport processes and in nature, such as in underwater avalanches. Examples in the oil industry are proppant transport for well fractures to control their opening ( 1 ), solids...

...Jin Sun; Francine Battaglia; Shankar Subramaniam Simulations of gas-solid fluidized beds have been performed using a hybrid simulation method, which couples the discrete element method (DEM) for particle dynamics with the averaged two-fluid (TF) continuum equations for the gas phase. The coupling...